The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-09-08

say truthfully, "In all the sales l have
ever made | have never overstated the |
value OF goods; in all the sales /
have ever made l have never covered |
up an imperfection in the fabric; or
all the thousands of dollars l have
ever made | have not taken one dis
honest farthing?" There are men, how
ever, who can say 1t. hundreds VINO
can say II, thousands who can say II.
They are more honest than when they
sold their first fierce of rice, or their
first firkin OF butter, because their
honesty and integrity have been test
ed, tried and come out triumphant. But
they remember a time when they could
have robbed a partner, or nave ap-
seconded with the funds OF bank, or
sprung a snap judgment, or made
false assignment, or borrowed illlmlt-
ably without any efforts at payment
or got a man into a sharp corner ana
feeced him. But they never took one
step on that pathway of hell fire. They
can say their prayers without hearing
the chink OF dishonest dollars. They
can read their Bible without thinking
of the time when with a lie on their
soul in the custom house they Kissed
the book. They can think of death
and the Judgment that comes after IL
without any finching-that day when
all charlatans and cheats, and jock
eys and frauds shall be doubly damn
ed. 1t does not make their knees
knock together, and it does not make
their teeth chatter to read "as the part
ridge stitch on eggs, and hatcheth
them not; so he that getteh riches, and
not by right, shall leave them in the
midst of his days, and at his end snail
be a fool"
What a school OF integrity business
life is! II you have ever been tempt
| ed to let your integrity cringe before
present advantage, IL you have ever
Weakened up in some embarrassment
and said: Now. | will step little
aside from the right path and no one
will know it, and | will come all right
again. il is only once. That only once
has ruined tens of thousands OF men
for this life and blasted their souls Tor
eternity
A merchant in Liverpool got tive-
pound Bank OF England note, ana.
holding it up toward the light, he saw
some interlineations in what seemed
red ink. He finally deciphered the let
tiers, and found out that the writing
had been made by a slave in Algiers,
saving in substance: Whoever gets
this bank note will please to inform
NV brother, John Dean, living near
Carlisle. that am a slave Of the Bey
of Algiers." The merchant sent word,
emploved government officers anu
found who this man was spoken OF IN
this bank bill After awhile the man
was rescued, who for eleven years had
been a slave of the Bey of Algiers'
He was Immediately emancipated. but
was so worn out by hardship and eX-
posure he soon after died. Oh, II
some of the bank bills that come
through your hands could tell all the
scenes through which they have pass
ed. it would be tragedy eclips1ng any
drama of Shakespeare, mightler than
King Lear or Macbeth!
As I go on in this subject / am i'm
messed with the Importance of our
having more sympathy with business
men. Is IL not a shame that we In oui
pulpits do not oftener preach aDou'
their struggles, their trials, and thell
foundations? Men who toll with the
hand are not apt to be very sympatheL
ic with those who toll with the brain
, The farmers who raise the corn an'
oats and the wheat sometimes ara
tempted to think that grain merchants
, have an easy time, and get their PROF
. its without giving any equivalent. Pla
to and Aristotle were so opposed u
merchandise that they declared com
merce to be the curse of the nation
> and they advised that cities be bull
I at least ten miles from the sea coast
) But you and know that there are n
more industrious or high minded mel
: than those who move in the world o
d traffic. Some of them carry burden
: heavier than hods of brick, and ar
e exposed to sharper things than tn
b east wind, and climb mountains high
IS or than the Alps or Himalaya, and
O they are faithful Christ will at last sa
O to them: well done, good and faith
II full servant; thou hast been faithful
d over a few things. l will make the
n ruler over many things. Enter tho
!? into the JOY of thy Lord"
i We talk about the martyrs OF tn
@ Piedmont valley, and the martyr
~ among the Scotch highlands, and II
e martyrs at Oxford. There are just
"a certainly martyrs of Wall street an
n State street, martyrs of Fulton stree
~ and Broadway, martyrs Of Atlant
- street and Chestnut street, goir
through hotter fires, or having the
e. necks under sharper axes. Then 1t b
:. hooves us to Danish all fretfulne
y from our lives, If this subject be tru
- We look back to the time when v
,e were at school, and we remember Il
% rod, and we remember the hard task
III and we complained grievously; b
Vi now we see it was for the best Bus
. ness life is a school, and the tas
% are hard, and the chastisements som