Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-29

ened nor filed of In time, and sur
geon was called to anputate the limb,
but before the work could be done the
tide rolled over the victim. and his life
was gone. | have to tell you, young
man, that just one wrong into which
you may slip may be a link OF long
chain Of circumstances from which
you cannot be extricated by any In
genulty Of your own or any help from
others, and the tides Will roll over you
us they have over many.
RightcOusnens Rewarded.
Again, business men are sometimes
tempted to throw Off personal RESPONSE
blllty, shifting it to the institution to
which they belong. Directors in banks
and railroad and insurance companies
sometimes shrk personal responsible
ty underneath the action OF the cor
poration. And how often, when some
banking house or financial institution
explodes through fraud. respectable
men in the board Of directors say,
why, thought all was going on IN an
honest way, and | am utterly COLI
founded with this demeGnorw The
banks and the fire and life and marine
insurance companies and the railroad
companies will not stand up for judg-
ment in the last day, but those who
in them acted righteously Will receive,
ench for himself, n reward, and those
who acted the part Of neglect or trick
cry will, each for himself. receive u
condemnation.
Unlawful dividends are not clean be-
fore God. because there are those as
socated with you who grab just rs big
pile as you do. He who countcnances
the dishonesty Of the firm or Of the
corporation or association takes upon
himself all the moral liabilities. Ii
the financial institutions steal, he
steals If they go into Wild spccula-
lions, he himself is a gambler. II they
needlessly embarrass creditor, he
himself is guilty Of cruelty. II they
swindle the uninltiated he himself Is q
defrauder. No financial institution
ever had Il money vault strong enough,
or credit stanch enough, or dividends
large enough, or policy acute enough to
hide the Individual sins Of its mem-
bcrs. The old adage that corporations
have no souls is misleading. Every
corporation has rs many souls as II
huS members.
Again, many business men have
been tempted to postpone their enjoy
ments and duties to a future season
Of entire leisure What sedative the
Christian religion would be to ali our
business men If, instead Of postpon-
ing its uses to old age or death, they
would take it into the store or factory
or worldly engagements now. 1t ID
folly to 90 amid the uncertainties OF
business life with no God to help. A
merchant in New England village
was standing by horse, and the horse
lifted his foot to stamp it In pool OF
water, and the merchant to escape tho
splash, stepped into the door Of an In
surunce agent, and the agent said, Il
s,oposc YOU have come to renew your
fire insurance." oh" said the mer-
chant 81 had forgotten that| The in
surance was renewed.-and the next
day the house that had been insured
! was burned Was it all accidental that
the merchant. to escape splash from
n horses foot stepped into the insur'
ance office? No; 1t was proyidential.
And what a mighty solace for busi'
ness man to feel that things are provi'
deutiall What peace and equilibrium
in such n consideration, and what q
grand thing II nll business men could
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