DR. PTALMAGE'S SERMON The age of Swindle. “Whose trust shall bow spider's web.” Job 8:4. Tar two mest skilful architects in all the world are the bee and the spider. and the other builds a slaughter-house for flies, Ona bright summer moru- ing, when the sun comes out and shines upon the spider’s web, bedecked with dew, the gossamer structure sees in iii for supernatural beings to cross on. But alas for the poor fly, which, in the latter part of the day, ventures on it, and 18 caught and dungeoned and de- stroved, The fly was informed that it was a free bridge, and would cost noth- ing. but at the other end of the Lridge the tofl paid was its own life, The next day there comes down a suong wind, and away goes the web, and THE MARAUDING SPIDER, and the victimized fly. So delicate are the silken threads of the spider's web that many thousands of them are put together before they become visible to the human eye, and it takes four mil- lion of them to make a thread as large as the homan hair. Most cruel as well wt Ingenious is the spider. A pri- n the Bastille, I'rance, had one uned that at thesound of a violin vy day came for its meal of flies, y author wy text, and the lead- it of his day, had no doubt he voracious process of this with another, and saw #! swept down with the same or scattered by the same wind. ¢. that the world has so many ng spiders and victimized flies! I':ere has not been a time when the and black irresponsibility of many having the financial interests of n charge, has been more evident 1 these last few years, The un- of banks and disappearance of ntist 1 t nsect wler fy de- utter met others tha: rooting admis estates and the disorder amidst post accounts and deficits amid United States officials, have made office A PESTILENCE OF CRIME and woman, ans thropist and Christian to ask. W shall be done to stay the plague? T is a monsoon abroad, a typhoon, giroceo. I sometimes ask myself if | would not be better for men mal wills to bequeath the property direct to the executors and officers court, 1 appoint the widows and or phans a committee to see that the er got all that did not belong to ti The simple fact is that there large nmnber of men sailing and driving fast horses, and members am forme en, yacl 5 ILS ing country-seats, who are not worth dollar if they return to others thei rights. Under some sudden reverse tl fail, and with afllicted air seem t from: the world, and seem almost for monastic life, when in two or compromised with their creditors; th: wid them nothing but regrets, the only difference between the second chapter cf prosperity and that their pictures are Muril of Kensetts, and their horses nt 3 less than th decessors, and instead of one coun seat they have three. 1 bave watche and have noticed that nize out of of those who fail in what is called hig life, have more means after than fore the failure, and in many of case by i is, the first urs ir los in ot or - = wenty seconds t cape the payment of honest debts and put the world off the track while they practice a large sw.ndle, There is something woefully wrong in the fact that these things First of all, I charge the blame ac ap wi hl are possible, on * » oR’ FFERENT BANK DIRECT and is having in charge great fln- ancia! institutions, It ought possible for a president or cashier ominent officer of a banking are 3 i Of t detection. that two or either the directors are partners in the infarny and pocketed part of the theft, or they are guilty of a culpable neglect I will undertake to say if these frauds are carried th wid as responsible as He holds the acknow- ledged defrauders, What right have prominent business men to allow their names to be published as directors in a financial institution, so that unso- phisticated people are thereby induced to deposit their money in or buy the scrip thereof, when they, the published ai- rectors, are doing nothing for the safe- ty of the institution? It isa case of deception most reprehensible, Many people with a surplus of money not needed for immediate use, although it may be a little further on indespensa- advise them, and they are guided solely by the character of the men whose names are associated with the institu- tion. When the crush came, and with the overthrow ot the banks went the small earnings and limited fortunes of widows and orpbans, and the helplessly aged, the directors stood with idiotic stare, and to the inquiry of the frenzied depositors and stockholders who had lost their all, and to the arraignment of an indignant pubiie, had nothing to say except: “We thought it was all right thing wrong going on,” It was THEIR DUTY TO KNOW, They stood in a position which deluded the le with the idea that they were carefully observant, Calling themselves directors, they did not direct, had opportunity of auditing accounts and inspecting the books, No Lime to do sof Then they had no business to accept the position, It seems to be the pride of some monied men to be direc. tors in a t many institutions, and ail ney now is whether or not they get dividends regularly, and their pames are used as decoy ducks to bri ; near enough to be made game of, What first of all is needed is that 5,000 nk directors and insurance company rector or attend to theif busi. ness as .The business world will be full of fraud just as as aud sso easy, When you a the president and secretary of a bank for an embezz'ement carried on for many years, have plenty of sheriffs out the game day to arrest all the directors, They are guilty either of neglect or complicity. “Oh, some one will say, *“‘belter preach the gospel and let business mal- | ters alone,” 1 reply: “If your gospel does not inspire common honesty in the dealings of men, the sooner you close up your gospel and pitch it into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean | ter. AN ORTHODOX BEWINDLER is worse than a heterodox swindler, L'ne recitation of all the cathechisms and creeds ever written, and drinking from all the communion chalices that ever dom, will never save your soul unless your business character with your religious profession. of the worst scoundrels in America have been members of churches, and they got fat on sermons about heaven, when they most needed to have the pul- | pits preach that which would either bring them to repentance or thunder them out of the holy communion, where their presence was a sacrilege infamy. We must especially deplore the inis- { fortune of banks in various parts of { this country, in that they damage the ! banking institution, which is the grea | convenience of the century, and indis- i of nations, With one hand it { the borrower. THE BANK WAS BOUIN | of the world’s necessities, and is vener i able with the marks of thousands of | years, Two hundred years re il $ bef Christ the Bank of llium existed, ar paid its depositors ten per T and was of bills were at such high credit that its a premium above ¢ OLS, of Genoa, founded | Barcelona, 1401; i . i 1699: in }ank 1345, Bank of Amsterdam, Of | its circulation based on great silve vaults; Bank of Er "illiam Patterson managing the land: Bank of Bank of Ireland, America, plane 1771, ancial help all the bravery of v 1 Kept in the Ig stupen- maa } PALIN wv . Hil r R t Robe s+ fin 8433 al housands and thous houlders are dividuals and hen ins ree t great at 1 run the ¢ They ha Ff y i 3 il Lat It ‘ IY, e the greal irrents AVE @ resource Li Foti rian LUsiiiess yusands exigency. I ommodation, i ¢ and and day 3S ey il fo ~iat head fiat y ih How nefariou f those who bring diss fat i 5 Yf#he re hold (rod’'s mercy t Kk by those resistance, enough food and cl | this whol le COTH. owards thi oat 3 3 tvke GYKes (roxd A ug to 33 v 1a ¢ nation like 0% and get it ak their share, ps everything sh tainty and everybody next?’ Every week revelations, How mu ith uncet “WW hat new ne At ing w asking. | makes n si e's money, woulating and how many more bank tors are in imbecile silence, letting rfidy go on, the great and patient is that we The wind g #18 f) ¢ ulation, I'he ¢ 41 ior mt the Juag HAVE has | J af hu Ercan men hougl Day at lsast have found it in 1888, and this nation has { taught that men musi keep their bands | out of other people's pockets, Grreat { businesses built on | have been obliterated, and men who had | nothing, Jost all they had. I believe | We are started on 4 higher career !3, who 1 i) ti nent wis (XX) vea ft oJ, } Years oii, $ 1 rg 1 2s § 1934, 10005 been | if, and if, and if. tian men, will learn never to speculate | upon BORROWED CAPITAL, | If you bave a mind to take your own money, and turn it all into kites, to fiy | them over every commons of the United States, you do society no wrong, except { when you tumble your helpless children into the poorhouse for the public to | take care of, But you have no right to | take the money of others and turn it in. {to kites, There is one word that has | deluded more people Into bankruptey | and State prison and perdition than any l other word in commercial life, and that | 18 the word borrow; that one word is re- | tions of the last twenty years. When executors conclude to speculate with the funds of an estate committed to their charge, they do not purioin, they say THEY ONLY BORROWS when a banker makes an overdraught upon his institution. he does not com- mit a theft, he only borrows, When the officer of a company, by flaming ad- vertisement in some religious papers, and gilt certificate of stoe a mul. titude of country people to put their small earniogs into an enterprise for carrying on some undeveloped nothing, he does not fraudulently take their money, he only borrows. When a young man with easy access to his ems ployer s og fi o the bg tial cler C propinquity to account -books, takes a To aoliaca tor a Wall Street excursion, he expects to put it back; he will put it all back; he will put it all back very soon, Heonly bor- rows. What is needed is some man of gigantic limb to take his place at the curb-stone in front of Trinity Church and when that word borrow comes bounding along, kick it elear through to Wall Street ferry-boat, and if, strik- ing on that, it bounds clear over till it strikes Brooklyn Heights or Brooklyn hill, it will be well for the City of Churches, Why, when you are going to do can get a shorter word more descrip- tive of the reality, a word of only five There are times when we all borrow, borrow for Christ, in Mount, borrow of thee, A young man Sermon on the “from him that would turn not thou away.” tion. Purchasing a house and not able to pay all down in cash, the purchaser righitly borrows iL on mortgage, in business when it would to borrow, jut warning all these sles, over the backs of all these pews, NEVER B Crises be not I roll ti il through iis ORBOW TO SPECULATE; not nen, cent a fart! I warn you value do it! for M HNg: men, yo do not } are 1 ris he i» A043 i Hanways, Caskets, the the and gone to pieceson those rocl I have to tell you that all the and the Needles, and the Caskets, ie DEerries, with bound here wreakers dist their shipwrecks—the Needles, the Skerries craft has are as nothing com breakers ner l SHAS north, south % al west, pale i thie ine of which he fe on dirge of their damnation; The i If I had only a worldly weapon to ¢ on this subject I would give you y fact fresh from the hi author- ty, that ninety cent. of those who i in Wall £0 inks alg a better warning th \ ¥ the I ghest pet a 1 aC iation 108 All A place Street worldly warning. bod soul--stand 1 must on thisquestion 11] rene 1058 i. and reps are absolutely ne COMM $ IL YOurl i srofession. your bug. Here 3 8 sounded In of iterated, delivered calamities mercial prosperity is and perpetuated. ry IVE to he es WITHIN TR $i $id $ I hava the highe orablestroubles broke out in four years ago, there wer in suspense, hi Spend 1 And let us ad hon by Christian religion, Odr reli to mean just as much the day periphrasis of sanctity ught to first clean Nn ought to clean TR and ¥ this ight and and fn iad ss 1644 Ki on Sat 11 Of 1rd Wy between, mere Our religion « hearts, and tl » Our our i it of church y. & gumdrop Bg HOI0g Lion, a spirit- sancti- Ans. nciple, sort dele onfect nal caramel or holy peppermint, ot It is an omnipotent pri all-coutrolling, all~conquering. may get along with something less than ing, a if « sort o ’ L lonery, f 0 3 CA 5 1 : it; but you cannot deceive God, and you cannot deceive the world, ‘he keen business man will put on i through to the back of your head, and see whether your religion is a fict'on or a fact, And you cannot samples of sugar or rice or tea or coffee if they are false; you eannot hide them under the cloth of a cummunion-table, plosion, and the money market is shaken, and the press denounces, and the church thunders explosion, You have no right to use the property of others, except for their advantage, nor without consent, unless they are minors, If with their consent you in- vest their property as well as you can, and it is all lost, you are not to blame; you did the best you could. but do not come into the delusion which has ruined 80 many men, of thinking because a thing is in their possession, therefore it is theirs, You have a solemn trust that some who have misappropriated trust Put them back, or, if you have involved them that you them back, confess the to those whom you anl you will sleep you wiil have the put vironged, better What a gael thing it your would be, if administrator not only were bankrupt in If all the tri have b fl vy to thelr sudde tl y ‘ 1 F go ba i should il . it would crush America, A M1 SERMON, missionary on one of the islands fo) lishonesty, IONARY' of acific preached on « i i looked out vard full wondered, this, ny } iil of and of his goods of all Kin $l asked th L18e the natives, ‘0 been worshippiug Mil ad ! yesterday, the will not allow all these good us int 8 ( steal, | cording (od of heaven and earth this, so we ng bad 5, and we ask you to help aking them to the places where & If next Sabbath all the America i sermons on the al and on the evils of sermons were all egulations were ould be Lit wri Kn ’ ng should of trust pueoining, and blessed God, made that all taken to the city | not be Ik every cits 1 d Ameri from HLISE f Ol ng before A WOouIa De Cros oung man, 1 vilant ir pHant i bos y Oe S00 4 word fromm the every honest suffer {1 have al suffer ampdom, resis on “ma Nag { s ape Fa “Thank G aod Harbor, the Polaris wintered in 18 Tigre in 1873. passed the Cape, yet nes Harbor, But from wh many of you, I 1 though your voyage of lif rough, run into by fcebergs and icebergs on that, you time reach Cape Farewell, Joyance, al after drop anchor in the calm and i perturbable waters of Thank God Har- bor—"“Where the wicked cease from rest, i Pe ‘ Ome AS Piatt will in due 1 ana there 1 Soom 5 1%. § i Bill Aye's Autograph Fiend, “Yes ' sald Bill Nye, ‘the autograph people pursue me with some avidity, but I've just got the best of one of them in rather a remarkable way, While at as you misrepresent your banking. in- stitution, and- in the amount of re- more fractional currency and more clearing-house certificates and more legal-tender notes and more loans and more discounts than there really are, and when you give an account of your liabilities you do not mention all the unpaid dividends, and the United States bank notes outstanding, and the individoal deposits, and the obligations to other banks and bankers, An au- thority more scrutinizing than that of any bank examiner will go through and through your business, I stand this morning before many who have trust funds, It isa compli- ment to you that you have been so in- trusted; but 1 charge you, in the pres. ence of God and the world, be careful, be as CAREFUL OF THE PROPERTY OF : STHERS careful of your own, Above all, keep your own private account at the bank separate from your ae count as trustee of an estate, or trustee of an Institution. That is the point at which thousands of people make ship- wrecks ‘They get the property of others mized up with their own property, the put it late in! and away ft all BOOS, as you a Lethe that which Then comes OX enclosed with a letter from my wife. When I opened the registered letter I found it read something likethis: “My dear sir autograph, but feel that you have so put in the ordinary way. 1 have, therefore, registersd this letter, Know- ed to me. for your kindness in furnishing me the desired autograph, I am ete, ete.’ | Mrs. Nyel”’ gi ent There has been much discussion as Lo the older naturalists stating that it was a pile of earth heaped up in a cone two or three feet high, upon which the bird sat, its feet Just touching the ground, This is denied by later ornithologists, as Professor Baird and others. Pro fessor Woodman, however, lately came upon a colony in Southern Florida, where the nests were all high, as given by Audubon, He the birds and touched them before they weuld leave the nest. Professor Woodman also discovered a small shove bird that fustead of making a nest deposited its eggs In bivalve shells along the shore, in which receptucies they were ably hatehed by the sun. % 3 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BusxpAY, Avni 8, 1888, Christ's Last Warning. LESSON TEXT, Matt. 23: 7. Memory verses, 37.99.) at od. LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE Qt King in Zion, AnrTen: Jesus the —————————————————————————— little lower than the angels, COT Heb, 2 : 9. Lugsox Toric: ing Hypocrisy. {1 Hypocrisy < VB, Ji, 94 Lesson (2 Hypocrisy | | Outline : Denylug Galil, vE < i Hypocrisy { seam GoLpeN TEXT: heart, O God; and renew a right gpiri Pasa : 10. Entalling Penalty, ”q {7 17 yi wi i me, Day Home READING Hypocrisy . ODutwa rdly Pare i saounoed ¥ smingly Friendly heir lips ummin him that . ha 0 MU 3 ww, named Rev, 3: 17). I Certainly Corrupt : Ye serpents, ve offspring af nie Bring fort} i pentance Matt. 3: 8. | Except ye repent, ye shall all perish (Luke 13 : 15) Jews and Greeks . Are (Rot, 3 9), All have sinned, and fall glory of God (Rom. 3 : 23), I. “We should not have takers with them.” {1 mitted guilt of the fathers: asserted innocence of the children, 2, “Fill ve up then the measures of your fathers.’ (1) The guilt re-enacted by the children; | The father’s penalty tered to the children. “How shall ve ¢-cape the judgment of hell®” (1) A waiting judgment; 23 A fearful exposure; (2) An ime possible escape. | 111. HYPOCRISY ENTAILING PENALTY, I. Base Cruelty : | Some, ...shall ye kill and crucify; l.. scourge, . ...and persecute (34). Whosoever killeth you shall think that [ he offereth service unto God ( John 16:2) \When they had called the apostles. ... they beat them (Act 5: 40), And they stoned Stephen (Acts 7 : 59), San! laid waste the church (Acts 8: 3), 11. Deplorable Porversity @ How often would I have gathered thy children, . .. and ye would not (37), The helled against the words of God (Pea, 107: 11), They despised all my reproof (Prov, . 30). They would nci come (Matt. 22 : 8), likewise all under sin short of the been The par- ad- 3% Ye will not compe to me, that have life (John 5 : 40) 111. Hopeless Desa ation: Behold vour is left desolate (38), Thou dash; them potler’s vessel (Psa, 2 He. ...shali suddenly be broken, and that without remedy (Prov, 29 : 1 And the door ght (Matt, 25: 10 He found ns place of rep (Heb 12: 17 1. “All these ti this generation.” hose unto you like in pieces Poe fy ol Was nance ng $ shall come upon (1) Accumulated ty + [+r Aggravated conden penalty ; (2 nation, 2. “How often would I have gathered thy child would together, and ye {1} The Lord’s Jory (2; The px ole’ insane refus The Lord’s parpos (2) The Lord’s patience; (3) The Lord's disappointment, 3. “Your house is left unto you ds (1) Its honors departed. Its glories gone; (3) Its hopes din med; (4) Its Saviour gr ren 4 10%. ing effort x g ale, Syed, BIBLE READING, HYPOCRISY. (od {Is 15 nen LESSON fore 17, fore ra Aad 24 : 00, 5] Cain, Gen, 4:3, 5; 1 John 3 ; 12; Absalom, &. Matt. 26 : 4 1 - En - LESSON SUBROUNDINGS, The present forms the con sion of the publ. c discourses in the temn- le. Matthew is in his reports; gis Jemson fullest tervening «discussions are in ch ronological order. After f the wedding feast a new nade upon our Lord { Matt, tw opposed to Pharisees fort to en- IR 1 LNW : ia £1 0 classes, thie Herodrans, 11 ‘ ruslitioally POLICY or ag 3 ATVOBINN : % $ ne (Matt, auesiion re ] n and wer i AT Answel juestioner now py Me “Sia HATISess wound | following and Luke make iy . rif 3} ow % of 1 hhow- followed resemble tthew’s report i Lhe sO followed es inced against the soril for their hypoorisy Verse 14 is not well su aced in the margin of rsion.y The lesson begins with the enune the seven fr 8 1 $ v \'« inane of ti : tine, Tu Nisan {April 4 A. D. 30. ——————— ee e—— Suffering Mr the Sake of Knowledge One evening a few years ago a schooner dropped anchor in an un- known bay on the east coast of New Guinea. A boat put off from the ves- sel, landed & man and his porimantean on the beach, and put back agam, The schooner at once sailed away, leaving the solitary figure on the beach in the darkness. No white man had ever vis- ited that savage coast before, and no utterly unknown savages of Astolabe bay. The man was Dr, Mikiucho Maclay, the Russian ethnologist, and knowledge led him, like many other heroes of science, to forego all com- When the natives next morning found the white man sitting on the beach, they thought the sky. They nearly killed him in experiments to determine he was a god. They im- in a hut and watched him day and night, They nearly starved him because a god should not They tied him to a tree | neck, because, if he were a god, he should not be frightened. Two of the arrows inflicted severe flesh wounds upon the helpless captive. Then they pressed their spears against his teeilh to make him open his mouth, and in iy tested his temper, courage and strength. At last they decided that he had dropped from the moon and that he was not a god, because his wounds bled and he neoded food, but they voted him a good fellow and grew daily more and more fond of him, be- cause Jie was always cheerful, how- ever, annoyed him, many of their sick soon recovered un. der his skillful care. For two years Dr. Maclay lived among these savages feeling amply repaid for all his terri. th of scien- every civilized comfort, ho! were needed to
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