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Show evasion will be branded a lie, and stealings that now sometimes go under the head of percentages ond commission and bonuses will be put into tho catalogue of state prison pris-on offenses 1 Society will be turned inside out and upside down and ransacked of God's truth until bus iness dishonesties shall come to an end and all double dealing, and God will overturn and overturn and overturn, and commercial men in all cities will throw up their hands, crying out, "These that have turned the world upside down are come hither. Dr. Talmage in Schenectady (N. Y.) Gazette. Everything seem3 to be giving out ." Says the mechanic, 'You put a rotten beam into that structure, struct-ure, and the whole thing has got to come down." Here is an estate that seems to be all right now. It has been building a great many years. But 15 years ago there was a dishonest transaction in that com mercial house. That one dishonest transaction will keep on working ruin in the whole structure until down the estate es-tate will come in wreck and ruin about the possessor's ears ona dishonest dollar in the estate demolishing all his possessions. I have seen it again and again, and so have you. Hero is your money safe. The manufacturer and yourself only know how it can be opened. You have the key. You touch the lock, and the ponderous door swings back. But let me toll you that however firmly barred and bolted your money safe may be you cannot can-not keep God out He will come, some day, into your counting room and he will demand: "Where did that note of hand come from? How do you account for this security? secu-rity? Where did you get that mortgage from? What does this mean ?" If it is all right, God will say: "Well done, good and faithful servant. Be prospered in this world. Be happy in the worldjto come." If it is all wrong, he will say :"Depart, ye cursed. Be miserable miser-able for your iniquities in this life, and then go down and spend your eternity with thieves and horse jockeys and pickpockets." You have an old photograph of the signs on your street. Why have those signs nearly all changed within the last 20 years? Doe3 the passing away of a generation account for it? Oh, no. Does the fact that there are hundreds of honest men who go down every year account for it? Oh, no. This is the secret. ' The Lord God has been walking through the commercial com-mercial streets of our great cities, and ho has been adjusting things according to tho principle of eternal eter-nal rectitude. The time will com when, through tho revolutionary power of this gos-pol, gos-pol, a falsehood instead of being callod exagLjentiji,equi vocation or Standard of Right and Wrong. Ah, my friends, there is but one standard of the everlasting right aud of the everlastingly wrong, and that is the Bible, and when that principle shall get its pry under our commercial houses I believe that one-half of them will go over. The ruin will begin at one end of the street, and it will be crash, crash, crash all the way down to the docks. "What is the matter? Has there been a fall in gold?"' "Oh, no." "Has there been a new tariff?" "No." "Has there been a failure in crops?" "No.' "Has there been an unaccountable panic?" "No." This is the secret: The Lord God has set up his throne of judgment judg-ment in the exchange. He has summoned the righteous and the wicked to come before him. What was 1837? A day of judgment. judg-ment. What was 1857? A day of judgement. What westhe extreme depression of two years ago? A day of judgement. Do you think that God is going to wait until he has burned the world up before he rights these wrongs? I tell you, nay. Every day is a day of judgment. The fraudulent man piles up his gains, bond above bond, United States security above United States security, emolument above emolument, until his property has become a great pyramid, and as he stands looking at it he thinks it can never bo destroyed, but the Lord God comes, and with his little ringer ring-er pushes it all over. You build a house, and you put into it a rotten beam. A mechanic mechan-ic standing by says, "It will never do to pu. fiat beam in; it will ruin your whole building." But you put it in. Tho house is completed. Soon it begins to rock. You call in the mechanic and ask, "What is the mat' " wit' this door? What is the Hq with this wall? |