Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-02-11

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have better warning than worldly
warning. From the place where men
have perished-body, mind, soul-stand
off. stand off Abstract pulpit discus
sion must ster aside ON this question.
Faith and repentance are absolutely
necessary, but faith and repentance are
no more doctrines of the Bible than
commercial integrity. "Render to all
their dues cove no man anything. ;"
And while | mean to preach faith and
repentance more and more to preach
them, do not mean to spend any time
in chasing the Utilities and Jebusites
and Girgashites of Bible times when
there are so many evils right around us
destroying men and women for time
and for eternity The greatest evangel-
istic preacher the world ever saw, a
man who died for his evangelism-peer-
loss Paul-wrote to the Romans. 'tPro-
vide things honest in the sight of all
men, wrote to the Corinthians "Do
that which is honest;' wrote to the
Philippians. Whatsoever things arc
honest' wrote TO the Hebrews, will
ing in all things to live honestly The
Bible says that faith without works is
dead, which, being literally translated,
means that if your business life does
not correspond with your profession
your religion is humbug.
Here is something that needs to be
sounded into the ears of all the young
men of America. and iterated and re-
iterated if this country is ever to be
delivered from its calamities and COM
mercial prosperity is to be established
and perpetuated Live within your
means Spend no more than you make.
And let us adjust all our business and
our homes by the principles of the
Christian religion. Our religion ought
to mean Just as much on Saturday and
Monday rs on the day between, and not
to be mere periphrasis of sanctity
Our religion ought to first clean our
hearts. and then it ought to clean our
lives. Religion is not. as some seem to
think, a sort of church delectation, O.
kind of confectionery, sort of spiritual
caramel, or holy gumdrop, or sanctified
peppermint, or theological anasthetic-
It is an omnipotent principle, all con-
trolling, all conquering You may get
along with something less than that,
and you may deceive yourself with it,
Init Won cannot deceive God, and you
cannot deceive the world. The keen
business man will put on his spectacles,
and he will look clear through to the
back of Your head and see whether your
religion is fiction or fact. And you
cannot hide your samples of sugar, or
rice or tea, or coffee if they are false,
You cannot hide them under the cloth
Of a communion table. AL your prayers
go for nothing so long as You misrepre-
sent your banking Institution, and in
the report of the resources You put down
more specie, and more fractional cur
rency. and more clearing house ceEtih-
Gates, and more legal tender notes, and
more loans and more discounts than
there really are, and when you give an
account of your liabilities you de not
mention all the unpaid dividends and
the United States bank notes outstand-
ing, and the individual deposits and the
obligations to other banks and bankers
An authority more scrntinizing than
that of any bank examiner will go
through and through and through your
business.
Care For others Property.
Gathered in all religious assemblages
there arc many who have trust funds
It is compliment TO you that you have
cen so intrusted, but charge you, in
the presence of God and the world, be
as careful of the property OF others as
you are careful of your own. Above all,
keep your own private account at the
bank separate from your account as
trustee of an estate or trustee of an in
stitution. That is the point at which
thousands OF people make shipwreck.
They get the propeltv of others mixed
up with their own property; they put 1t
into investment. AMI away it all goes,
and they cannot return that which they
borrowed. Then comes the explosion,
and the money market is shaken, and
the press denounces and the church
thunders expulsion You have no right
to use the property of Others, except for
their advantage nor without consent,
unless they are minors. If with their
consent you invest their property as
we'll as you can and it is aA lost, you
are not to blame. You did the best you
could. But do not come into the delu-
sion which has ruined so many men OF
thinking because thing is in their
possession therefore it is theirs. You
have solemn trust that God has given
you. In any assemblase there may be
some who have misappropriated trust
funds. Put them back. or if you have
so hopelessly involved them that you
cannot puttiem back confess the whole
unIng TO Jnose wnom you have wrongeo
and yoa will sleep better nights and
you will nave the better chance for
your soul. What sad thing it would
be if after you are dead your admins
traitor should find out from the account
books or from the lack of vouchers that
you are not only bankrupt in estate,
but that you lost your SOUL If all the
trust funds that have been misappro-
priated should suddenly fly to their
owners and all the property that has
been purloined should suddenly go back
to its owners, it would crush into ruin
every city in America.
A missionary in one of the islands ct
the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and
the next morning he looked out OF his
window and he saw his yard full OF
goods of all kinds. He wondered and
asked the cause of all this. "Well, ;
said the natives, "our gods that we
have been worshiping permit us to
steal; but, according to what you said
Yesterday, the God of heaven and earth
will not allow this. So we bring back
I'll +boeo Goods and we oSlS Won to help