The weekly examiner., 1901-06-29

| have the highest mountains and the | greatest cataracts and the longest riv-s | CTS, and, of course, we had to have the | largest swindle. One would have
 thought that the nation had seen
 enough in that direction during the
 morus multicaulis excitement, when
 almost every man had bunch of
 crawling silkworms in his house, out | of which he expected to make for | tune. But all this excitement was l as nothing compared with what took | place in 1864 when a man near Titus i vile, Pa, digging for we'll, struck 1 oil. Twelve hundred oil companies
 call for billion of stock Prom i 1nent members of churches, as soon as i a certain amount of stock was as- 1 signed them, saw it was their privilege
 to become presidents or secretaries or ! members of the board of direction. l Some of these companies never had a foot of ground, never expected to have.
 Their entire equipment was map of
 region where oil might be and two 1 vials 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 1 young man came down from the oil re- l glons of Pennsylvania utterly dement, 1 ed, having sold his farm at fabulous
 price because it was supposed that there might be oil there-coming to a
 hotel in Philadelphia at the time I was
 living there, throwing down a $5,oo0
 check to pay for his monday meal and saying he did not care anything about the changei Then he stepped back to i the gas burner to light his cigar with
 $1,o00 note. Utterly insane
 The good Christian people said:
 'tThis 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
 a professed Christian goes into
 stock gambling he lies like sin. But
 alas for the countryi It became
 tragedy, and thousand million dol-
 lars were swamped. There are fani-
 lies to-day sitting in the shadow of destitution who but for that
 great national outrage would have
 had their cottages and their
 homesteads. I 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 I 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 fnan- cial horror. I only want you to know that it was in procession of monetary frenzies, some of which have passed aud others are to cong
 men of Wall street nd o1 streets, stand back from
 enterprises, join that gres
 pany of Christian men wH
 maintaining their integrity, noS ly1 standing all the pressure of tempta- tion. 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 a benediction upon it. A kind of business that men cannot engage in without prayer is no busi- ness for you. I wish that the words of George Peabody, uttered in the hearing of the people of his native town-Danvers, Mass.l 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 unvaried and universal success in the pursuit of fortune in other lands I am still in heart the humble boy who left wonder unpretending dwell ing. There is not 8 youth pwitAin the sound of my voice whose early opportunities and advantages are not very much greater than were my own, and I have since achieved nothing that is impossible to the most humble boy among you. George Peabody's success in busi- ness was not more remarkable than his integrity and his great-hearted benevolence. I pray upon you Gods protecting and prospering blessing. I 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 inexorable 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. I pray for you all prosperity. Stand close by Christ, and Christ will stand close by you. The greater the tempta- tion the more magnificent the re ward. But, alas, for the stock gam bler-what will he do in the judg- ment? That day will settle every thing. That to the stock gambler will be ''break" at the first call"