| Show infidelity or OF LIFE mow vow much is inthis this a I 1 yard said a lady acquaintance of nune in 1 ine ile to the proprietor of a large dry goods store that maam is worth worthy and he then held it up for inspection that thet is selling for three dollars ik it is a beautiful piece maam the best for the price in the city it ig is more lore nore core rifah than I 1 am willing wining to give p lve ive y said the lady 1 11 I will take it at two dollars 1 the merchant went on in the usual style asserting that it was less than cost but it being be her she might have it efter after th the e lady had bad gone said 1 iphy did you sell that without a profit 7 why did I 1 yoa you dont think me so much of a fool as that I 1 ne levei er dispose of goods without a profit but you yon told the lady so said sald 1 I 11 k poh po h I 1 tell the tile same to twenty ti enty every day I 1 made fifty per cent ile ho then went to attend to another cit cli customer stomer and I 1 thought to myself here is a man reckoned honorable as a business man in good standing as a member of church esteemed a aben benevolent ev oleat liberal christian and absolutely lying j according to his admission at least twenty times a day merely to make a good bargain and gain a few pence why is he called honorable because lie he will not rot forfeit his word when overreached by a cuter man because lie he pays pa s all his debts mlle when lid iid due ne to keen kee up u his credit yes these are efficient to t the le business world ivorid why is he lie eit esteemed berned a christian merely because he owns a pew is is a communicant and gives liberally to benedo lent societies judging from the acts of such and acts are the most correct interpreter of or a persons persona thoughts what claims have they to such titles as christians and honorable men me i it is not by those acts expected to come before lle ile lie he discriminating ina ting criticizing criticising critic ising h at men are to be known but by those little every day transactions when the eye of the community is riot not upon men I 1 is s the moment to fudge of their honesty ask a tradesman why he tie persists in such a course and he will readily answer we must do so if we would live has mai markind malkind kind so dp generated that a ilian irlan man of integrity must starve are all knaves that we must deal in falsehoods or diep die dle no god forbid it is a libel on the human race to say we cannot prosper and be li honest onest let me ask aak those wilo who answer we must be di dishonest honest 1 how many have ever thoroughly C tried the vie opposite 0 jc course ourse now have conscience and integrity become barTi bartl barriers to right and success E each aih ach exerts himself to the extent of his sagacity if not to get the better of a bargain barg a in at least not to get cheated we need a host of ministers minister yes home missionaries to preach against the growing ili ill 11 faithlessness this infidelity not theoretical but practical infidel infidelity ity ltv this beggary of faith falth I 1 to preach to each other othe r waverly mag |
