Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-02-06

and borrow legitlmately and borrow
with the divine blessing, for Christ in
his Sermon on the Mount enioins,
"From him that would borrow of thee
turn not thou away A young man
rightly borrows money to get his edu-
cation Purchasing a house and not
able to pay all down in cash, the pur-
chaser rightly borrows it on mortgage.
Crises come in business, when it would
be wrong for a man not to borrow. But
[ roll this warning through all these
aisles, over the backs of all these pews,
never borrow to speculate-not dol
lar, not cent, not farthing. Young
men, I warn you by your worldly pros
poets and the value of your immortal
souls, do not do it, There are breakers
distinguished for their shipwrecks-
Hanways, the Needles the Baskets, the
Douvers, the Anderlos, the Skerries-
and many craft has gone to pieces on
those rocks but have to tell you that
all the Hanways and the Needles and
the Baskets and the Skerries are as
nothing compared with the long line of
breakers which bound the ocean of
commercial life north, south, east and
west, with the white foam Of their de-
spair and the dirge of their damnation,
the breakers of borrow.
Faith and Repentance Necessary.
If I had only a worldly weapon to
use on this subject, [ would give you
the fact, fresh from the highest author
ity, that 80 per cent of those who go
into wild speculation lose all, but I
have better warning than worldly
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have persisted body, mind, soul-stand
off, stand off, Abstract pulpit discus
sion must step 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. ''Owe no man anything
And while I mean to preach faith and
repentance, more and more to preach
them, I 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-
less Paul-wrote to the Romans, 'Pro-
vide things honest in the sight of all
men," wrote to the Corinthians, "Do
that which is honest;' wrote to the
Philippians, whatsoever things are
honest" wrote to the Hebrews, "Wil1-
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 as 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, sort of church delectation, a
kind of confectionery, a sort of spiritual
caramel, or holy gumdrop, or sanctifed
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,
but you 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. All 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 certif-
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 do 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 scrutinizing 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 are many who have trust funds.
1t is a compliment to you that you have
been so intrusted, but charge you, in |
the presence of God and the world, be
as careful Of the property of others as