The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-24
ElM|LY nRES|DE SERMON.
0aDAliD ES>fclAllY POa YoVN6
AND OH

eoA1e~: "Dishs~es Transaetions"-Oss
# the Crying Kviis Of Modern Life 10
the Abuse Of 1rust-bewar Of the w Cd
Observation-Disclosures to Business Men.
TIKI: "whose trust shall be a spiders
Web."-Job viii. IA.
Thetw moet skillfnl architects in nil the
world are the bee and the spider. The one
pots or . sugar mRnufactory and tho other
builds . slaughter house for files. On a
bright summer morning when the sun
comes out and shines upon the spiders
web. bedecked with dew, the gO3samer
structure seems bright enough FOX a sus-
pension bridge for aerial beings to cross
On Bnt alas for the poor nv which in :he
Iatter par. ofthat very dav ventures on It
sDd is caught and dunSeoDed and de-
stroyed. The ny vas informed that 1t was
. free bridge and would cost nothing, but
at the other end Of the bridge the toll paid
was It's own hfe. The next day there
comes down n strong wind. and away go
the web and tbs marauding spider and
The victimiZ-d fly. SO delicate are tho
sukeD threads Of the spiders web that
many thousands Of them are put together
before they become visible TO the hunan
eye. andi 1t tnkes 4 900 900 OF them to make
atbread ns large as the human hair. Most
cruel as we'll nS most ingenious IL the
spider. A prisoner In the Bastille, France.
had one SO trained that at the sound ofthe
violin II every day came for its meal OF
ntes. The author Of my text, who was a
hading scientist Of his day. had no doubt
watched the vOraciOus process OF this one
tasect with another and saw spider and fly
swept down with the same broom or scat
tered BY the same wind. Alas that tho
world has so many designing spiders and
victimized flies!
There has not been a tine when the
utter and black irreaponsit1lity OF many
nen having the financial interests OF
others In charge has been more evident
than in these last few years. The bank
IA ptcy OF banks md disappearance OF nd-
illustrators with the funds OF large estates
0Hd the diaOrdered accounts OfUnited State.
OH cials have sometimes made II pestilence
Of crime that ~solemniS-s every thoughtful
man and woman and leads every phiiRn-
toropist and Christian to ask. What shall
- done to stay the plague There is ever
and anon q monsoon OF swindle abroad, a
typhOOn. n sirOcco. | sometimes ask nv
self II 1t would not be better TO- men maxi
my wills to beQueath the property directly
to the executors and officers OF the court
and appoint the widows and orphans Il
committee to geo that the former got all
that did not belong to them. The simple
hct IL that there are Il large number OF
men sailing yachts and driving fast horses
and members OF expensive clubhOuses and
controlling country seats who are not
worth q dollar II they return to others
their just rights. Under some sudden re-
verse they fail, and with afflicted air seem
TO retire from the world and seem
almost ready for monastic life, when In two
or three years they blossom out again, hav-
Ing compromised With their creditor.-thnt
Il, paid them nothing but regret. and the
only difference between the second chap
ter OF prosperity and the first is that their
~nt ~An - --:lI@
and their horses 80 a mile In twenty sec-
Onds less than their predecessors, and IN.
stead OF one county seat they have three.
j have watched MT have noticed that nine
>Rt OF ten OF those who fail In what is called
nigh life havs more means after than be-
tore the failure, and in many OF tbs cases
failure Is only u stratagem to escape tho
payment OF honest debts and put the world
on the tr~ck while they practice a large
ewindle. There Is something woeiulIy
wrong in the fact that hesethings are pos
stble.
First OF NIL. I charge the blame on care.
sess. Indifferent bank directors and boards
having In charge great financial %institu-
lions. 1t ought not to be possible for n
president or cashier or prominent officer
81 a banking institution to swindle 1t year
after year without detection. will under
TAKE TO say that IL these frauds are carried
On for two or three years without detec-
0on either the directors are partners in
the infamy and pocket part OF the theft or
they are guilty OF q "ulpable neglect o;
duty for which God will hold them as re-
sponsih,e as He holds the acknowledged de-
Tauders. What right have prominent
business men II allow their n mes to be
published "A directors in q financial inst.-
eGtion so that unsophisticatel people are
thereby induced 10 deposit their money in
or buv the scrip thereof when they. the
published directors, are doing moth
ms for the eafe:y OF the institution:
II IS case OF deception most
reprehensiole. Many people with Il surplus
a money. nos needed for imnedfate use,
although 1t may Be a little further on in
tispeusatlr. are without ~trieui, conne.ant
TO advise them, and they are guide! sole