The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-06-15
subscribed. "A great undertaking.
nobody to know what IL is"

; | suOscriDeu. "A great UNDERTAKING
I nobody to know what IL is"
r But it was left for our own country
: to surpass all, about 81 years ago. w,
have the highest mountains and the
! greatest cataracts and the longest riv
; ers, and, of course, we had to have the
} largest swindle. One would have
/ thought that the nation had seer
enough in that direction during the
. morus multicaulis excitement, when
almost every man had a bunch OF
, crawling, silkworms in his house, out
! Iof which he expected to make a for
tune. But all this excitement was
as nothing compared with what took
place in 1864 when a man near Titus
vile, Pa, digging for a well, struck
OIL. Twelve hundred oil companies
call for a billion Of stock. Prom
inent members of churches, as soon as
a certain amount of stock was as
signed them, saw it was their privilege
to become presidents or secretaries or
members of the board of direction.
Some of these companies never had q
foot of ground, never expected to have.
Their entire equipment was a map of
region where oil might be and two
walls of grease, crude and clarified.
People rushed down from all parts Of
the country by the first train and put
their hard earnings in the gulf. A
| young man came down from the oil re-
gions of Pennsylvania utterly dement,
ed, having sold his farm at fabulous
price because it was supposed that
| there might be oil there-coming to q
hotel in Philadelphia at the time was
living there, throwing down a. 600
check to pay for his MONDAY meal and
saying he did not care anything about
the change! Then he stepped back to
the gas burner to light his cigar with
a $1,000 note. Utterly insane.
The good Christian people said:
This company must be all right,
because Elder So-and-so is president
of it, and Elder So-and-so is secre-
tary of it, and then there are three
or four highly respected protesting
Christians in the board of direct
ors." They did not know that when
professed Christian goes into
stock gambling he lies like sin. But
alas for the country. 1t became
tragedy, and a thousand million dol
lars were swamped. There are fami-
lies to-day sitting in the shadow
| of restitution who but for that
great nationcl Nu+-arn would have
had their cottages and their
homesteads. hold up before
the young men these four great
| stock gambling schemes that they
may see TO what length men
| will go smitten of this passion, and
1 want to show them how all the
best interests of society are against
it, and God is against it and will
condemn it for time and condemn it
for eternity. I do not dwell upon
the frenzied speculations in Wall
street last month. You all have
enough remembrance of that finan-
cial horror. 1 only want you to
know that it was in procession of
| monetary frenzies, some of which
have passed and others are to come.
o men of Wall street and of all
streets, stand back from nefarious
enterprises, join that great COM
pany of Christian men who are
maintaining their integrity, notwith-
ton. In the morning, when you
open business in the brokers' office
or in the banking house, ask Gods
blessing, and when you close it pro-
nounce benediction upon it. A
kind of business that men cannot
engage in without prayer is no bust
ness for you. 1 wish that the words
of George Peabody, uttered in the
hearing of the people of his native
town-Danvers, Mass.-I wish that
those words could be uttered in the
hearing of all the young men
throughout the land. He said:
Though Providence has granted me
UNMARRIED and universal success in
the pursuit of fortune in other lands
l am still in heart the humble boy
who left yonder unpretending dwell
ing. There is not youth within
the sound of my voice whose early
opportunities and advantages are
not very much greater than were
my own, and have since achieved
nothing that is impossible to the
most humble boy among you."
George Peabody's success in busi-
NESS was uOb thuu
his integrity and his great-hearted
benevolence. I pray upon you Gods
protecting and prospecting blessing.
l hope you may all make fortunes
for time and fortunes for eternity.
Some day when you come out of
your place of business and you go
to the clearing house or the place
of custom or the bank or your own
home-as you come out of your place
of business just look up at the clock
in the tower and see by the move-
ment of the hands how your life is
rapidly going away and be reminded
of the fact that before Gods throne
of memorable judgment you must yet
give account of what you have done
since the day you sold the first yard
of cloth or the first pound of sugar.
1 pray for you all prosperity. Stand
close by Christ, and Christ will stand
close by you. The greater the tempta-
ton the more magnificent the re-
ward. But, alas, for the stock gam
bler-what will he do in the judg-
vl-A Iox mill Ia