The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-04-16

( JOhn quincy ADAMS maze Ine biDle
| his constant companion. Amos Law
! renee, the millionaire merchant OF
! Boston, had inscribed on his pocket
| book, the text, What shall it profit
a man if he gain the whole world and
| lose his own soul?" No wonder he
! gave thousands of dollars to the cause
| Of Christ.
But what about the men who reject
! the Bible? Why, sin lieth at their
! Ioor. The superstitious life of Byron,
Or the dying words of Voltaire will
prove this statement.
III. The third step in well-doing
/ Is to be honest.
Your Book, the Bible, says, "Thou
shalt not STEAL" or in other words
be honest.
1. Be honest with God.
You have accepted Christ as your
| Saviour, and taken His Book as your
guide: the Book tells you what is eX-
/ Dected of each one of His followers,
and He tells you just the work what
! He wants you personally to do. Have
you met both these requirement.:
2. Be honest with yourself.
You have soul to save and a body
10 care for. You will be rewarded &C
eording to your works.
3. Be honest with your fellow.
| man.
A man would steal dollar on the
same principle that he would steal a
pin. Watch the little things; gnat
choked Pope Adrian; nail turned
ship out of its course; fly by
walking from tree to tree revealed to
the onlooker that the supposed dis
tant landscape was only picture.
Said a wholesale merchant to a
customer, as he pointed to one OF his
clerks: THAT young man, sir, is my
banker, he handles every cent OF
money that passes through the store.
He could cheat me out of thousands
Of dollars every year if he wanted to,
but | am not afraid to trust him, he
has proven himself to be strictly hon
est
Said a merchant to one of his
clerks: "Why didn't that lady buy
those goods?" Because, sir, she
wanted Middlesex cloth. "Why did
you not show her the next pile, and
call them Middlesex?" Because,
sir, they were not Middlesex." "Well,
said the merchant, if you are as par
ticular as all that you will never do
for me-" every we'll" said the young
man, eff have to lie to keep my po-
sition I will lose it,
When Abraham Lincoln had charge
of Orfuts' country store, he walked
two miles to give lady six cents that
he had overcharged her by mistake.
Another time he made mistake and
sold a quarter of pound of tea for
a half pound. AS soon as he discov-
cred his error he could not rest till
it was made right. After he was adj
mitted to the bar it was said of him
that he would never defend person
whom he believed to be in the wrong,
even if they offered him large
amount of money to do so.
He undertook the Paterson trial,
believing the man accused of murder
to be innocent; but when the trial
was half through he changed his
mind and dropped the case, refusing
pay for his services.
When the time came in our history
as a nation that the people began to
distrust the corrupt politicians who
were governing in the interests of
slavery, the only hope of saving the
ship of state was to place an honest
man in the Presidential chair. Hon
est Abe Lincoln was the man selected.
From a spiritual point of view we
are debtors to all men, let us try and
pay this debt, not only by our lives
but by giving our substance to the
cause of Christ throughout the world.
" The next step in well-doing is
to be men and women of Tact, Push
and Principle.
Upon these three qualities depend
the success of every man or woman
from business point of view. Sam
uel Budget, the great English mer!
chant, attributed his success to them.
]. Tact.-Tact is nothing more
nor less than the use of common
sense, and it is so common that very
few people possess as much of it as
they ought to.
Many so called cultured people
often speak of the farmer as the
"hayseed from the country" But
some of them when they visit the
farmer show themselves to be de.
ficient in this quality of tact. Said
one young man to his farmer friend ::
what kind of bird do you call
that?" ga goose" was the reply. 80,
see; you keep that to get gooseber-
ries with" A young lady from the
city of Ottawa asked friend of mine
which of his cows gave the butter
milk Every one who has heard or
read DR.. Prices address to young peo-
pie will remember his apt illustration,
''Tabby, why don't you get up?"
2. Push.-Many people have tact
enough to succeed, il they only had
push enough to go with it. They can
sell a book, or bill of goods, but it
takes them so long to do so, that
there is no profit in it. Many of the
greatest victories in the worlds his
tory have been won by men while yet
young in years. David, Luther, Alex
ander and the worlds Redeemer
Himself are illustrations of this
truth.
3.-Principle-Ta and push
would be detriment to man if he
were without principle. An employer
promised a clerk higher wages if he
would treat the customers now and
then to glass, in order the he might
sell them a bill of goods. The young
man replied: 81 thank God there is
a poorhouse in my native town, and
will go there and die before I shall
do such dirty work That was
Principle Nicholas Biddle, the first
president of the United States Bank,
requested his employees at one time
to work on Sunday. One young man
lost his position rather than do so.
That was Principle.
When President Lincoln was re-
nominated for the Presidency it be-
came necessary to call for 100000 re-
cruits to reinforce the men at the
front. His friends everywhere ad-
vised him not to issue the order as it
would endanger his reelection. He
went personally before the congress
sional military committee where a
similar attempt was made. With the
fire of indignation flashing in his eyes
he replied: ''It is not necessary for
me to be reelected, but it is neces-
sary for the soldiers at the front to
be reinforced by 100000 men, and
shall call for them; and if I go down
under the act, I will go down like the
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