The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12

ton. The bride may not be offered in
money. 1t may be offered in social
position. Let us remember that there
is day coming when the most secret
transactions of private life, and of
public life, will come up for public
apprehension.
Men of the world often regret that
they have to leave their money here
when they go away from the world.
You can tell from what they say in
their last hours that one of their chief
sorrows is that they have to leave their
money. | break that delusion, tell
that bride taker that he will take his
money with him. God will wrap il up
in your shroud, or put IL in the palm
of your hand in resurrection, and there
it will lie, not the cool, bright shining
gold as it was on the day when you
sold your vote and your moral princi-
pie, but there it will lie, a hot metal,
burning and consuming your hand for
ever Or. II there be enough Of it for
chain, then IL will fall over the wrist,
clanking the letters of an eternal cap
tivity. The bride is an everlasting pos
session. You take 1t for time, you take
IL for eternity. Some day in the next
world, when you are longing for sym
pathy, you will feel on your cheek a
kiss Looking up, you will find IL to
be Judas, who took 80 pieces of silver
as bride, and finished the bargain by
putting an infamous kiss on the pure
cheek of his divine Master.
Another wrong use of money is seen
in the abuse of trust funds Nearly
every man during the course of his
life, on larger or smaller scale, has
the property of others committed TO
his keeping He is, so far, a safety
deposit, he is an administrator, and
holds in his hand the interest of the
family of deceased friend. Or he is
an attorney, and through his custody
goes the payment from door to credi-
tor. OF he is the collector for bust
ness house, which compensates him
for the responsibility; or he is treas
urer for charitable institution, and
he holds aims contributed for the suf-
fering; or he is an official of the city
or the state or the nation, and taxes
and subsidies and salaries and supplies
are in his keeping. 1t is as solemn a
trust as God can make IL. 1t is con-
centrated and multiplied condolences
On that man depends the support
of bereft household, or the morals of
dependents, or the right movement of
thousand wheels of social mechanism
man may do what he will With his
own, but he who abuses trust funds
in that one act commits theft false
intensity of the world, a miscreant.
How many widows and orphans there
are with nothing between them and
starvation, but sewing machine, or
held up out of the vortex of destruc-
ton simply by the thread of needle,
red with their own hearts blood, who
little while ago had, by father and
husband, left them competency!
What is the matter? The admins
traitors or the executors have sacrificed
it-running risks with it that they
would not have dared to encounter in
their own private affairs.
Another remark needs TO be made,
and that is that people ought not to
go into places, into business, or into
positions where the temptation is
mightier than their character II
there be large sums of money to be
handled, and the man is not sure of
his own integrity, you have no right
to run an unseaworthy craft in hur.
ricane. A man can tell by the sense
of weakness or strength in the pres
ence of bad opportunity whether he
is in safe place. How many parents
make an awful mistake when they
put their boys in banking houses and
stores and shops and factories and
places of solemn trust without once
discussing whether they can endure
the temptation! You give the boy
plenty of money, and have no account
of IL, and make the way down become
very easy, and you may put upon him
pressure that he cannot stand
There are men who go into positions
full of temptation, considering only
that they are lucrative positions.
A clustering young man arrived at
hotel in the west, and he saw a man
on the sidewalk whom he supposed to
be laborer, and in rough way, as
no man has a right TO address Il labor
err, said to him: Garry this trunk up.
stairs" The man carried the trunk
upstairs and came down, and the
young man gave him a quarter of /
dollar which was clipped, and instead |
of being % cents it was worth only 20 |
cents. Then the young man gave his
card to the laborer and said: You
take this card up to Gov. Grimes; |
want to see him" "Ah," said the |
laborer, ~ am Gov. Grimes" oh" !
said the young man, 'you-I-excuse |
me-" Then the governor said: II was /
much impressed by the letter YOU |
wrote me asking for certain office in
my gift. and made up my mind you
should have it; but young man who
will cheat a laborer out of five cents
would swindle tine government of the
state If he got his hands on il. Idon't |
want you. Good morning, sir"
oh! is it not high time that we
preach the morals of the gospel right
beside the faith of the gospel? Mr..
Froude, the celebrated English his
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