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THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 18, 1808,
EVIL.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Enters a Plea
tor Fair Dealing.
THY BRIBE
Money Obtained by Fraud Sends Men Down
to Perdition
Monster that Mas Polsoned Some
of the Brightest Minds the
World Has Produced,
Bribery Described as »
—— —
In the
Range
modes
themse
holds o
cannot afford to disregard Hi xt
“They
rich fall into a temptation an
shionest
i warning that they
}
is Timothy 6: 9: will be
a share,
and into many toolish and hurtrul
lusts, which drown men in destruction
and perdition.”
I'hat is the Falls
which rush a multituue of souls,
ly,
noney
me how uo
what
Niagara
Dalle
the determination to have
Lell
money and
will tell
anyhow, right or w
Res
it,
man his
he does wita and 1
you his character, and what will be his |
next
1 propose to speak to-day about the
Fuiious modes of getting money.
In and
elections, large sul of
used in Dribe ry
the science iI B governn
often been | int
101
ster
destiny in worid and the
»
ais
City, state
did our
Boney
ythe s
trucuiency
has
briber had
man on the other side vd
At the
“Thins
nesses, he thinks
his behalf five
against the other side.”
out the bag of ducats from under the
Ottoman, he dashed it down at the
feet of the briber, saying: “I give my
decision against you" Epaminondas,
offered on bribe, said: “I will do this
thing if it be right, and if it be wrong,
all your goods cannot persuade me.”
The president of the American con
gresa during the American revolution,
Gen, Reed, waa offered 10,000 guineas
by foreign commissioners if he would
betray this country. He replied: “Gen
tleman, I am » very poor man, but tell
your king he is not rich enough to buy
me.” But why go so far. wher, von
and 1, if we move in honorable soelety,
know men and women who by all the
forces of earth and hell could not
be bribed. They would no more be
bribed than you would think of tempt-
ing an angel of light to exchange
Heaven for the pit. To offer a bribe is
many w he poor
no witness
on close of the case the cad
raid poor man hak not wit
I shall produce in
hundred witnesses
Then pulling
——
over |
|
nationad |
are |
Politics, from being |
willainy, but it is a very poor eompli-
ment to the man to whom it is offered.
Meanwhile, my advice is, keep out
of politics unless you are invulnerable
to this style of temptation. Indeed, if
naturally strong, you
Nothing
can stain our
them
even you are
buttires
of Lod
MINI.
need
burt
religions
the grace
Ww hat we
old-fashioned revival’ of religion
might break out in COngress
gislature, and brn
hlicans
pi Haean
x10
come nu
the
thority, then certaly
My
member that this
church,
[| harge aiso
evil of
Cire
to} rents Is re
ribery often
ind
)
begins in the home
Teach them to dot
not
nursery
is right, and
cents or the
There is a great difference
becaus
}
orange whi vou will
give them
between rewarding virtue and maki
,
the profits thereof the impelling mo
tive. That
because “honesty is
man who is honest merely
the best :
is already a moral bankrupt
My charge is
ments of life, steer clea
of vou Every
some time wil
for compensation
be offered in money, It
Let reme
n social posit mi bher
i
that there | wher
t secret tr
ished
famous
tions wl ng in
mightier than th i ft}
handled
1Ore
money t
of his
right to run sn
craft in a hurrienans A
the sense of
De laree sums
and the m
tegrity,
Fe
is not sure
}
have 0
own in
you
unseaworthy
Dy
man can tell weakness
or strength in the presence of a bad
whether he is in a »{e
parents make
they put their
boys in banking houses and stores and
opportunity
How
mistake
place an
awful when
shops and factories and places of sol
emn trust without discussing
whether they can endure the tempta-
You give the plenty of
money, and have no account of it, and
make the way down become very easy,
and you may put upon him a pressure
that he cannot stand, There are men
who go into positions full of tempta
tions, considering only that they are
luerative positions
once
tion! boy
I address who have trust
funds. It is a compliment to you that
you have been entrusted, but 1
charge you, in the presence of God
and the world, be careful; be as care
ful of the property of others as you
are careful of your own. Above all,
keep your own private account at the
bank separate from your mseccount
ns trustee of an extate, or
trustee of an institution. That
is the point at which thousands
many
RO
of peopls make shipwrecks, They get
the property of others mixed up with
their own property, they put it into
investment, and away it all goes, and
they cannot return that which they
borrowed, Then comes the explosion,
and the money market | } and
the pre church
thunders
You
erty of others «
1a ke n
denounce and the
expidsion,
rh t
have no rig!
xcept Tor
tage, not without consen
re minors
ten
thelr
You
has
1
ion, therefore
olemn trust
You
In there may be
some who have misappropriated trust
funds. Put or if vou have
$0 hopelessly involved them that you
them back, confess the
10 wliomm you have
wronged, and better
better
any community
them bac
cannot put
whole thing those
will sleep
the
nights, and you have
chance for your s ul What a sad
thing it would be if after vou are
dead. vour administrator shou d find
t from the account books, « from
ouchers were
that
ard
explorer,
Highlanders,
estors,
famous
ailing
High
iy
aren
the station where the train
he :
Lhe
train was
one mile o rom the tele
the
bruised
was
graph gtatiom tunately
trait late ut and
feet like the wind {
up to the telegraph station, panting
with almost exhaustion, she
had only strength to “The
bridge is down!” when she dropped
id could hardly be
resuscitated, The message was sent
from that station to the next station,
and the train halted, and that night
that brave girl saved the lives of hun.
dreds of passengers, and saved many
homes from dessolation. But every
street Is a track, and every style of
business is a track, and every day ia a
track, and every night is a track, and
multitudes under the power of temp.
tation come sweeping on and sweep.
ing down toward perils raging and
terrific. God help us to go out and
stop the train! Let us throw some
signal. Let us give some warning. Dy
the throne of God let us flash some
influence %o stop the downward prog.
ress. Heware! Heware! The bridge
is down, the chasm is deep, and the
lightnings of God set all the night of
sin on fire with this warning: “He
that, being often reproved, hardeneth
his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed,
and that without remedy.”
Was
she flew oming
deadly
shout,
Inecomscions
Oh, the Pain of
Rheumatism!
Bheumatism often causes the most in-
tense suffering. Many have for years
vainly sought relief from this a
disease, and are to-day worse off than
ever, Rheumatism is a blood disease,
and Swift's Specific is the only cure, be-
cause it is the only remedy which ¢an
reach such deep-seated diseases
Af y ru
\ 1 year
Rhous
I
relieved
advice
I decided to
ne to take it
a8 A Chemist, sna
pounced it free of
oh better after
fore
ny guard
the remes
potash or mercury
aking two bottles
' din twor
The cure was pers
had a touch of
times exposed Lo «
M. TirreLs,
phia
Throw aside your oil ne
they ean not reach your trouble, Don't
experiment with doctors—their potash
and mercury to your disabil-
ty and
octpletely destroy
3.5.51. Blood
your diges-
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-» NORMAL :-: SCHOu.
JAMES ELDON. A. M__ Ph.D. . Principal
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DEMOCRAT,
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