The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-28

munities the curse of God will come,
blow after blow. Gods law forever and
forever is the only standard of right
and wrong and not commercial ethics.
Young business man. avoid the first
business dishonur. and you will avoid
all the rest. The captain Of "A vessel
was walking near the mouth OF Il river
when the tide was low. aud there was u
long. stout anchor chain, into one of
the great links of which his foot
slipped, and it began to swell, and he
could not withdraw il. The tide began
TO rise. The chain could not be loos-
cncd nor filed off in time, and surgeon
was called TO amputate the limb, but
before the work could be done the tide
rolled over the victim, and his life was
gone. | have to tel you, young man,
that just one wrong into which you
| slip may be a link of a long chain of cir
cumstances from which you cannot be
eNtricatcd by any ingenuity OF your
ovn or any help from others, ana the
| titcs will roll over you as they have
over many. When Pompey, the war
rior, wanted TO take possession of a
city and they would not open the gates,
he persuaded them to admit Il sick sol
der. But the sick soldier after awhile
GOT well and strong, and he threw open
the gates and let the devastating army
come in. One wrong admitted into the
soul may gain in strength until after
awhile it filings open all the gates to the
attack of sin, and the ruin is complete.
Again. business men are sometimes
tempted to throw Off personal respon-
-ibiiitics, shifting it to the institution
90 which they belong. Directors in
banks and railroad and insurance COM
pauies sometimes shirlt responsibility
| underneath the action of the corpora
ton, and how often. when some bank
ing house or financial institution eX-
rlodes through fraud, respectable men
in the board of directors say: "Why,
thought all was going on in an honest
way, and am utterly COMPOUNDED with
this demeanor!" The banks and the
fire and life and marine insurance COM
panies and the railroad companies will
not stand up for judgment in the last
day, but those who in them acted
righteously will receive each for him
self, a reward, and those who acted the
part of neglect or trickery will, each
for himself, receive "A condemnation.
Unlawful dividends are not clean be-
fore God because there are those ASSOC
ciated with you who grab just as big n
pile as you do. He who countenances
the dishonesty of the firm or of the cor
poration or association takes upon him
self all the moral liabilities If the
financial institution steals. he steals
If they go into wild speculatious, he
himself is Il gambler. If they needless
~ embarass a creditor, he himself is
guilty of cruelty. If they swndle the
Uuinitiated, he himself is a defrauder
No financial institution ever had
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 il has mem
berS.
Again, many business men have been
tempted To postpone their cnjoymcnts
and duties 10 a future season of entire
leisure. What a sedatiye the Christian
religion would be to all our business
men if instead of postponing its uses
to old age or death they would take it
into the store or factory or worldly en-
gagemonts now. II is folly TO 60 amid
the uncertainties OF business life with
no God TO help. \ merchant in a New
England village was standing 10y
horse, and the horse lifted its foot to
stamp il in a pool of water, and-ihc
merchant, 20 escape the splash, stepped
into the door of an insurance agent,
and the agent said: II suppose you
have come to renew your tire nsur-
ance.' oh" said the merchant. 81
had forgotten that The insurance
was renewed, and the next day the
house that had been insured was
burned. Was il all accidental that the
merchant, to escape splash from
horses foot, stepped into the insurance
office? No, il was providential. And
what mighty solace for business
man to feel that things are providen-
tial!
Many, although now comparatively
Strengthened in worldly circumstances,
have goodly establishment in the fu-
ture planned out. They have an inn
agnation built, about 20 years ahead.
a house in the country not dithdllt OF
access from the great town, for they
will often have business or Old accounts
to settle or investments 10 look after.
The house Is large enough To accommo'
Il date all their friends. The halls are
wide and hung with pictures OF hunt
ing scenes and 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 sentinei
about the house, rustling in the cooI
breeze and songtul with the robins
There is just land enough 10 keep them
interes1Ch. md It's rrnns Of utmost fab.