Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-24

ers smuggle few things in passenger
trunks, because others take usury
when men are in tight places, because
others palm off worthless indorse-
ments, because others do nothing but
blow bubbles, do not, therefore, be
| overcome of temptation. Hollow pre-
! tension and fictitious credit and COM
mercial gambling may awhile prosper,
| but the day of reckoning cometh, and
in addition to the horror and con-
domination of outraged communities
the curse of God will come blow for
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 dishonor, and you will avoid
all the rest. The captain Of a vessel
was walking near the mouth of riv-
er when the tide was low, and there
was q 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 it. The tide began
to rise. The chain could not be loos-
ened nor filed off in time, and a sur
geOn was called to amputate the limb,
but before the work could be done the
tide rolled over the victim, and his life
was gone. l have to tell you, young
man, that just one wrong into which
you may slip may be a link of a long
chain of circumstances from which
you cannot be extricated By any in
genuity Of your own or any help from
others, and the tides will roll over you
as they have over many.
righteousness Rewarded.
Again, business men are sometimes
tempted to throw off personal RESPONSE
bility, shifting it to the institution to
which they belong. Directors In banks
and railroad and insurance companies
sometimes shirk personal responsible
ty underneath the action of the cor
poration. And how often, when some
banking house or financial institution
explodes through fraud, respectable
men in the board Of directors say,
"Why, thought all was going on In an
honest way, and 1 am utterly con-
founded with this demeanorv The
banks and the fire and life and marine
insurance companies and the railroad
companies will not stand up for judg-
ment in the last day, but those who
in them acted righteously will receive,
each for himself, a reward, and those
who acted the part Of neglect or trick
cry will, each for himself, receive a
condemnation.
Unlawful dividends are not clean be-
fore God, because there are those as
ISOLATED with you who grab just as big
a pile as you do. He who countenances
the dishonesty of the firm or Of the
himself all the moral liabilities. If
the financial institutions steal, he
steals. If they go into wild specula-
tiOns, he himself is a gambler. If they
needlessly embarrass a creditor, he
himself is guilty of cruelty. If they
swindle the uninitiated, he himself is a
defrauder. No financial institution
ever had a money vault strong enough,
)r credit stanch enough, or dividends
large enough, or policy acute enough to
hide the individual sins of it's mem
bers. The old adage that corporations
have no souls is misleading. Every
corporation has as many souls as 1t
has members.
Again, many business men have
been tempted to postpone their enjoy
ments and duties to q future season
of entire leisure. What sedative the
Christian religion would be to all our
business men if, instead of postpon-
ing its uses to old age or death, they
would take it into the store or factory
or worldly engagements now! 1t IL
folly to go amid the uncertainties of
business life with no God to help. A
merchant in q New England village
I@rva ~, l.
lifted his foot to stamp it in pool of
water, and the merchant, to escape the
splash, stepped into the door of an in
surance agent, and the agent said, II
suppose you have come to renew your
fire insurance. "Oh," said the mer-
chant, 81 had forgotten thatw The in
surance was renewed, and the next
day the house that had been insured
was burned. Was it all accidental that
the merchant, to escape a splash from
a horses foot, stepped into the insur-
ance office? No; it was providential.
And what a mighty solace for a busi-
ness man to feel that things are provi- |
Dental! What peace and equilibrium
in such a consideration, and what q
grand thing If all business men could |
realize it!
AdjOurninx Joys.
Many, although now comparatively |
straitened in worldly circumstances, |
have goodly establishment in the fu- |
ture planned out. They have in imag- |
ination built about 20 years ahead a |
house In the country not difficult Of |
access from the great town, for they |
will often have business or old &C. |
counts to settle or investments to look |
after. The house Is large enough to |
accommodate oil their friends. The |