St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-08-26

self al the moral liablli.ies. n
financial Institution steals, he steal
If they go into wild speculations, h.
himself is gambler. If they needless.
~ cmbarass a creditor, he himself is
guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the
uninitiated, he himself is a fefrauder.
No financial institution ever had 4
money vault strong enough, or credit
stanch enough, or dividends large
enough. or policy acute enough to hide
the individual sins of its members. The
old adage that corporations have no
souls is misleading. Every corpora
ton has as many souls as it has men,
bers.
Again, many business men have been
tempted to postpone their enjoymcnts
and duties to future season of entire
leisure. What sedative the Christian
religion would be to all our business
men ii instead of postponing its uses
to old age or death they would take it
into the store or factory or worldly en-
gagements nowi 1t is folly to go amid
the uncertainties of business life with
no God to help. A merchant in a New
England village was standing by
horse, and the horse lifted its foot to
stamp it in q pool 81 water. and the
merchant, to escape the splash. stepped
into the door of an insurance agent,
and the agent said: II suppose you
have come TO renew your fire insur-
ance." "Oh!" said the merchant. II
had forgotten that" The insurance
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 Q
horses foot, stepped into the insurance
Office? No, it. was providential. And
what a mighty solace for . business
man to feel that things are providen
tial! What peace and equilibrium in
such q consideration, and what a grand
thing il all business men could realize
it!
Many. although now comparatively
Strengthened in worldly circumstances,
have a goodly establishment in the flu
ture planned out. They have an inn
agination built, about 20 years ahead,
a house in the couA>ry not difficult Of
access from the great town, for they
will often have business or old accounts
to settle or investments to look after.
The house is large enough to accommo-
date. all their friends. The halls are
wide and hung with pictures of hunt
ing scenes and q branch of antlers and
are comfortable with chairs that can
be rolled out on the veranda when the
weather is inviting or set out under
some Of the oaks that stand sentinel
about the house. rustling in the cool
breeze and songful with the robins.
There is just land enough to keep them
and its crops of almost fab
llols richness springing up under up
plication of the best theories to be
found in the agricultural journals. The
farm is we'll stocked with cattle and |
horses and sheep that know the voice |
Ind have a kindly bleat when one goes
Torth to look at them. In this blissful |
lbotle their children will be instructed
n art and science and religion. This |
shall be the old homestead TO which the |
)oys ut college Will direct their letters.
md the hill on which the house stands |
will be called lakewood or Ivy hill or |
Pleasant Retreat or Eagle Eyrie. May |
he future have for every business mar
lerc all That and more besides! But |
ire you postponing your happiness to
hat time? Are you adjourning your
oys? Suppose that you achieve all you
that the vision l mention
S not up TO the reality, because the
will be brighter, the house
,rander and the scenery more pictur-
sque-the mistake is none the less f.
al.
Again, business men are often tempt.
d to let their calling interfere with
he interests OF the soul. God sends
nen into the business world to get edu-
ated. just as boys are sent to school
I'd college. Purchase and sale, loss
nd gain. disappointment, prosperity,
he dishonesty of others, panic and
'ank suspension arc but different les
oAsS 'i sasC % uNOAs uC utOTc UuSluGS8 Il
he more means Of grace. Many have
one through widest panic unhurt.
Are you not afraid you will break?"
mid some one to a merchant in time
T great commercial excitement. He
"piied: AYE, shall break when the
fitch psalm breaks, in the fifteenth
erse: Call upon Me in the day Of
-ouble, and will deliver thee" The
tore and the counting house have
eveloped some of the most stalwart
haracters. Perhaps originally they
ad but little srrightliness and force,
at two or three hard business thumps
oke them up from their lethargy, and
,ere came u thorough development in
leir hearts of all that was good and
ply and energetic and tremendous.
nd they have become the front men in
hrist's army as well as lighthouses in !
le great world of traffic. But business
as been perpetual depletion to many ,
man. 1t has pulled out of him all
'nevolence, next all amiability, next
religious aspirations. next all con.
fence, and. though he entered his vo- ,
tion with a large heart and noble
aracter. he goes out of il a skeleton,
lough to scare q gfo st.
Yet some of those sharpest at q bar. ]
lin are cheated ont Of their immorfalI