Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-09-16

bankrupt, vi shoh Nv -. .
Of the money OF his friends estate
and mt Il into his business? 1t Is all
we'll enough for you to denounce tne
mlsappropriatlon Of trust funds but,
sunnosing YOU were In that mans place
ond vour creditors were knocking at
YOUR door, what would you doF leaI
Won might do just az thousands OF
men have done In the past VINO nave
been bound hand and foot with the
prayeclothes Of debt. You wouid Do
dishonest, as they were dishonest Inc
financial temptation would hing you
Poverty Versus Crime.
Or take another view Of the same
subject. Supposing you are not
merchant, but clerk or iaDofei'
On account of the hard times you
have lost your position In the store OF
the mine. supposing you have trampeo
the streets day after day looking lor
work and never have been able 10
find II. And then, supposing munger
Is beginning to gnaw at your VitaiS
and the bitter cold to soAd its chilis
nlavinr "hare and hounds" up ana
down YOUR back, what would you DO!
You may have learned what cold anu
hunger are when some time you were
ont hunting or tramping through the
woods and you were lost. You re-
member how you tramped on and on
until you became faint from lack Oh
food and perhaps your lips became
awollen for water to drink, Dut
there was no water, no food, no
house in sight. How, then, did you
look at life? Does hungry man,
cold man. have the same chance tor
virtue and honesty and purity as
we'll fed man and a warm man! Oh'
nv friends, If you and l ever ma
time when we can relieve some VI
thase financial dlstresses | believe we
will take away d large per cent OF
tho crimes and the dishonesties OF the
world. Indeed, know what / say Is
: true Most men are not dishonest tor
mere pleasure, but only when they
have become brutalized by hunger ana
, hodilv wants and financial necessities
/ The majority Of men are honest az
3 heart.
8 This truth was forced upon me some
/. months ago In q powerful way. mel
T ono Of the boys of one of the old farm
G ers OF my Bushhlll church, where
o preached for two summers as theo
e logical student, thirteen miles from
e railroad. From being q farmers Sol
e he had worked his way through colieg
d and was travelling through the countr.
q. in camping wagon lecturing at th
ID little towns and schoolhOuses upon tn
s. Anthracite Coal Beds OF Pennsyi
of vonIa.r As q lecturer that man la
II. been everywhere. On the deserts,
ne the mountains, at mining camps an
er in railroad towns he had spoken. ID
81. had camped alone In rayines anu U
be Mexican dugouts and by Indian vi
al lagos. Were you never afraid OF d.
Ell ,ng attacked and robbedr l asked Mn
Ol' Never" said he. Il started out yea
is 400 believing that most people WEI
re honest and that If you trust them tnt
Us would not betray you. have Dee
he among the cowboys and had lndiai
tie ride no to me upon the desert mill
as away from any human being, ana
ry have never been molested. Furtne
ng more. I have never carried a nreari
'es either gun or pistol. l never lock-
ere nm nv things. But I'd go away ITO
eaI INV wagon for days at a time, al
as whom came back l always found
wn goods inst where left them. IL y
i'm. believe people are honest ana tro
en- them they will not betray you
his sav 7 From a rather varied eXpe
] once I feel sure that most people wa
OF 70 do right. II men do cheat loi
OF and steal inevitably you Will ma u
Of they were first led astray because IN
e" COR or cold or financial exigency
tics some sort drove them to crime. y
lists inspire US to help those VINO are WI
'ely ont work to get work, and those "
the ora without food and clothing 10
es- sood and clothing, and those VINO are
'vef financial difficulties to weather -
oos faw months OF financial storm. II
OF that man financially. Do you not d
give the words Of my text, Loose MIN
1es' LET him goT God Will save tna' u
| 10 IN financial distress If you disciples
ne" DO your part.
wa must save men morally as '
"a helm them intellectually ana ni
here c,ally. I apply that word "moraily
moi all that is most vile and corrup'
ove- human nature. l do not. however
est nlv Il IN the sense that you an
'und should 20 into the city slums ana
the nm the social eutessts, although
/, as rescue should and must be done oy
the rroper Christian workers. But
,less apnly It In the meaning thai we 81
oud -a. On out a helping hand ana
t :. m.n and women and young boys
ROW girls from slipping over the prec1i
and of moral ruln. In ninety-nine &
must ort OF A hundred this can be doi
out we only place around the young
N he abe right kind Of Christian ass
Ke items.
Couh The LGssOh -
I ex. There are many influences wnicl
feet ve,op rhe moral life besides env
Ii In mont believe absolutely ana
man nhatlcglly IN heredity. The reasol
ncial domestic deg circles around {"
tress three times before he lies 90"
We If sleep at the Kitchen stove Isl IS De,
ords, his wild ancestar in the eastern
their or on western prsirie clrcled arou
ncial the same way totrack down the
,r in or the grasses before he lay ao'
lncial sleep beneath the campfres OF ID tn'
few teying stars. The reason the Jew
on. shrewdest and most suceesslu,
n the and money lender OF the worlu
'iness cause for centuries he was gov
chant den by the gentiles. He couio ~
Of real property. If be was ianu
years his estate was confiscated d