The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-03-16

thority more scrutinizing than that OF
any bank examiner will go through
and through and through your busi-
ness.
Gathered in all religious assemblages
there are many who have trust funds.
It is a compliment to you that you
have been so intrusted, but l 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 eEtate or trustee
OF an institution. That is the point at
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 we'll 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 so
many men, of thinking because thing
is in their possession therefore it is
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.
CIR if 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 if, 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. If all the trust funds that
have been misappropriated 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.
A missionary in one of the islands of
the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and
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. well" 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
ters 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
we're 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 to
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 it, but the owner finally
consented to let it to him until he could
raise one crop, and the abbot sowed
acorns, 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.
It will not be crop for 200 years, but
crop for everlasting ages.
l have also word of comfort for all
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 busi-
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 ard shoulders
But that is nothing compared with the
pressure that business life has put upor
many of you. God made up His mine
long ago how many or how few dollars
it would be best for you to have. Trust
to His appointment. The door viii
soon open to let you out and let you up
What shock of delight for men who fo1
so years have been in business anxiet,
when they shall suddenly awake il
everlasting holiday! On the maps O.
the arctic regions there are two place!
| whose names are remarkable, given,
suppose, by some polar expedition, Cap
Farewell ard Thank God harbor. A
this last the Polaris wintered in 1871 ant
the Tigress in 1873. Some ships hav'
passed the cape, yet never reached tn
harbor. But from what l know O
many of you | have concluded that
though your voyage Of life may be yer.
rough, run into by icebergs on this sid