St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-09-30

honest dollars. They can read their
Bible without thinking Of the tire
vixen with . lie on their soul in the
custom house they kissed the Book.
They can think of death and the judg-
ment that comes after it without any
finching-that day when all charlatans
and cheats, and jockeys and frauds
shall be doubly damned. 1t does not
make their knees knock together, and
il does not make their teeth chatter to
read 'as the partridge stitch on eggs
and hatcheth them not, SO he that get
tern riches, and not by right. shall
leave them in the midst of his days, and
at his end shall be fool"
What school of integrity business
life is! If you ever have been tempted
toilet your integrity cringe before pres
.ent advantage, If you have ever
Weakened up in some embarrassment
and said: Now, 1 will step little
aside from the right path and no one
win know it, and will come all right
Ra9ain, it is only once" That only once
has ruined tens of thousands of men
for this life and blasted their souls for
eternity. So sASs IN ST
A merchant In Liverpool got . five
pound Bank of England note, and, hold
ing it up toward the light, he saw some
interdelineations in what seemed rcd
ink. He finally deciphered the letters
and found out that the writing had
been made by slave in Algiers, say
ing, in substance: whoever gets this
bank note will please to inform my
brother, John Dean, living near Carlisle,
that am slave of the hey of Algiers.
|. The merchant sent word, employed gov
eminent officers and found who this
man was spoken of in this bank bill.
After awhile the man was rescued, who
for II years had been slave Of the hey
of Alciers. He was Immediately eman-
cipated, hut was q. worn out by hard
ship and exposure he soon after died.
oh. II some of the bank bills that come
Though your hands could tell ~ the
scenes through which they have passed,
it would be a tragedy eclipsing any
drama Of Shakespeare. mightier than
King Lear or Macbeth! .ssg s.
As 20 on in this subject. am I'M
pressed with the Importance OF our hav'
| ing more sympathy with business men
Is il not shame that we in onr pulpit,
do not 6ftener preach about their strug.
| giles, their trials ard their temptations
| Men who toll with the hand are not apt
to be very sympathetic with those who
toll with the brain. The farmers who
raise the corn and the oats and tbs
wheat sometimes are tempted to thinl
that grain merchants have an easy time
and get their profits without giving any
equivalent.
we talk about the martyrs OF thu
Piedmont valley, and the martyr
among the Scotch Highlands, and thu
! martyrs ut Oxford. There are just Al
/ certainly martyrs of WaIl~ street ana
State street, martyrs of Fulton stree
and Broadway, martyrs OF Atlantic
street and Chestnut street, goint
through hotter fires, or having thei
uecks under sharper axes. Then it pc
hooves us to Danish all fretfulness from
our lives, il this subject be true. w
look back to the time when we wer'
at school, and we remember the rod
and we remember the hard tasks. ant
we complained grievously, but now VI
see it was for the best. Business life
a school, and the tasks are hard, ant
the Establishments sometimes are yer.
rrievous. But do not complain. III
hotter the fire the better the refining
There are mes before the throne Of Co
this day in triumph who on earth wer
cheated out of everything but thei
coffin. They were sued, they wer
imprisoned for debt, they were throt
ksled by constables with a whole pac
Of writs, they were sold out by tn
sheriffs, they had to compromise wit
their creditors, they had to make a
sienments. Their dying hours wer
annoyed by the sharp ringing OF q
doorbell by some impetuous credito
who thought it was outrageous an
impudent that a man should dare t
die before he paid the last half dollar
1 had a friend who had many mi.
fortunes. Everything went against hin
He had good business capacity and va
Of the best of morals, but he was on
of those men such as you have some
times seen, for whom everything seem
to go wrong. His life became to hill
l 4 plague. When l heard he was dea'
Il said: .Good-got rid of the sheriffs!
Who are those lustrous souls befor
the throne? When the question
asked: "Who are they?" the ange
standing on the sea of glass respond
"These are they who came out OF gres
business trouble and Ead their robs
washed and made white in the blood {
the Lamb" atgssgs
I man arose in Fulton street prayt
! meeting and said: II wish publicly
acknowledge the goodness flood.
| vas in business trouble. had none
to pay, and 1 had no means to pay
\ and was In utter despair, Of all huma
helm, and laid this matter before Il
Lord, and this morning / went dow
. among some old business friends hs
not seen in many years just to NAL
a call, and one said to me: Why, q
|. SO glad to see you! Walk in. We ha'
some money on our books due you
!. good :xhile, bat we didn't know wbe
!. YOU were, and therefore not haviI
, your address, we could not send
! we are sery glad you have come. !" Al
the man standing in Fulton. sire
I prayer meeting said: The amount thu
paid me was six times what l owed
3 You say it only happened SO: iou a
! unbelie. ing. Goa answered that man
1 prayer. siiai 1861 4-s
: Oh. you want business grace. Coz
$ mercial ethics, business honor. la,
= Of trade, are all very good in the
i place, but there are times when "
' want something more than this wor
will give you. You want God. +
: lack Of Him some that You have know
!. I have consented to forge, and to mi
: treat their friends, and to curse the
l enemies, and their names have be
| hulletined nmOng scoundrels. and tn