Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-09

not correspond with your profession
your religion is humbug.
Here is something that needs TO BE-
sounded in the ears OF all the young
men of America and iterated and reii
Grated il this country is ever to be de-
liyered 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 bust
ness aud our homes by the principles
Of the Christian religion. Our religion
ought to mean as much on Saturday
and Monday as on the das between and
Lot to be mere periphrasis of sane
tity. Our religion ought to first clean
our hearts, and then ii ought TO clean
our lives. Religion is not, as some
seem to think, sort of church dedica-
lion, kind of confectionery, a sort of
spiritual caramel or holy gumdrop or
sanctified peppermint or theological
anaesthetic. IL is an omnipOtent prin-
ciple, all controlling, all conquering
You may get along with something less
,han that, and YOU may deceive your
self with 1t, 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, IL they are false; you cannot hide
them under the cloth of communion
table. All your prayers go for nothing
so long rs you misrepresent your bank
ing institutions, and in the report of
the resources you put down more spe
Gle, and more fractional currency, and
more clearing house certificates, 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 outstanding, aud the
Individual deposits, and the obligations
to other banks and bankers. An au-
tbority more scrutinizing than that OF
any bank examiner will go through
and through and through your bust
ness.
Gathered In all religious assemblages
there are many who have trust funds.
II 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 you are careful of your own.
Above all, keep your own private ac-
count at the bank separate from your
account as trustee of an estate or trustee
Of an institution. That is the point ut
which thousands OF people make ship
wreck. They get the property of 9th
ers mixed up with their own property.
They put it into investment, and 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 well as you can, and it is
| all lost, you are not to blame. You
did the best you could. but do not come
| into the delusion, which has ruined 50
| many men. of thinking because thing
IS in their possession therefore il i
theirs. You have a solemn trust that
God has given you. In any asemblage
there may be some who have misap-
! propriated trust funds. Put them back.
or II you have so helplessly involved
them that you cannot put them back,
confess the whole thing TO those whom
you have wronged, and you will sleep
better nights, and you will have the
better chance for your soul. What a
sad thing it would be II, after you are
dead, your administrator 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. IL all the trust funds that
have been Incorporated should sud
denly 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.
| \ missionary in one of the islands of
the Pacific preached on dishonesty. ant
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. We'll" 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 all these
goods. and we ask you to help us in
taking them to the places where they
belong" If next Sabbath all the minis
tiers in America should preach sermons
on the abuse Of trust funds, and on the
evils of purloining, and the sermons
were all blessed of God, and regulations
were made that all these things should
be taken to the city halls, it would not
be long before every city hall in Amer
lea would be crowded from cellar 10
cupola.
Let me say In the most emphatic
manner to all young men, dishonesty
will never pay. An abbot wanted TO
buy a piece of ground, and the owner
would not sell II, but the owner finally
consented to let it TO him until he could
raise one crop, and the abbot sowed
acorns, n crop of 200 years! And tell
you, young man, that the dishonesties
which you plant in your heart and life
will seem to be very insignificant, but
they will grow up until they will over
shadow you with horrible darkness
overshadow all time and all eternity
1t will not be a crop for 200 years, but
crop for everlasting ages.
have also a word of comfort for al
who suffer from the malfeasance OF
others, and every honest man, woman
and child does suffer from what goes
on in financial scampdom. Society is SC
bound together that all the misfor'
tunes which good people suffer in bust
ness matters come from the misdeeds
of others. Bear up under distress
strong in God. He will see you through
though your misfortunes should be
centupled. Scientists tell us that q
column of air As miles in height rests
on every mans head and shoulders
But that Is nothing compared with the
pressure that business life has put upon
many of you. God made up His mind
long ago how many or how few dollars
| IL wOuld he hest for Won to have Trust