The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

THE Birds of the Bible This is the SUBJ
Jet OF a series of sermons now being preached
Dy Rev. DR.. Madison G. Peters, pastor of Inn
manuel Baptist Tabernacle, Baltimore. Last
sunday night his text was jeremiah xvii, IL:
as the partridge stitch on eggs and hatcheth
them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by
right, shall leave them in the midst of his
Gays, and at his end shall be fool" DR..
Peters said
There is a pious cant and political dema-
goguery which affect to despise money, and
constantly repeat, The love of money is the
root OF all evil yet these people are the very
ones who are constantly digging away at the
root They never miss a chance of hobnob
Ding with the rich and buying at good bar
gain. The Bible does say, The love of money
is the root of all evil , BUTT also says, Money
answereth all things Money is defense
Ii money comes to you honorably and goes
from you usefully, it is one of the greatest
blessings you can possess.
THE Bible would not assure us that the
blessing of the Lord maketh rich if wealth
were an evil Perhaps it would be better if
there were no great fortunes. But they exist
and more are accommodating, and what the
end is to be cannot be foretold. 1t is large
capital that has made possible our railroad,
steamship and telegraph systems, established
our manufactures opened our mines built
OF learning and charities covering every con-
ceivable case of need.
THE desire for property with view to its
right and legitimate use is not only not covet-
Gus, but is lawful and right. If there were no
desire for wealth. there would be no need of it.
1t would soon cease to exist at all, and society
would 90 back to state of actual barbarism.
What would labor amount to without capital
behind it?
Young, man, be determined to get on in
the world go at your business with all the
vigor and all the brains that you possess and
m do oil ktn hpr. 1,,l
God grant that everyone of you may be rich
some day. Our text teaches that terrible
retribution pursues the fraudulent man, even
/. in the midst of his days, and he at his end
shall be FOOL The unprincipled mans
money does not always take wings and leave
Its owner disconsolate in an empty nest the
balances do not swing evenly here, the imper-
fections and inequalities of the present moral
government of God will be redressed in an
oher world but though the ill-gotten money
may abide with the dishonest man, it nevercan
mike its owner really happy.
W You may cover up your transgressions,
I butGod sees to the bottom. How about that
wicked scheme you have now on foot?
charge you in the presence of God. be careful.
Keeryour private account separate from your
account as trustee of an estate or an institution.
Nevei use the property of others except for
their advantage. Be scrupulously honest in
little things.
ut may be a small matter for a clerk to use
his employers postage stamps for his personal
correspondence; the amount involved is trivi-
al, but the principle is all important. Re-
member that, whether president of some cor
poration, carrying on a course of trickery and
fraud, or engaged only in private transactions,
where false weights and short measures de-
ception and shoddy abound, you are sailing in
a ship like that tabled one of old, which ever
comes nearer and nearer to magnetic noun
tain that will at last draw every nail out of
it. The very winds will sigh forth your in
iquity and beam will come out of the wall
and convict and smite you"