The Bible in the Counting-House: a Course of Lectures to Merchants
The Bible in the Counting-House: a Course of Lectures to Merchants
Henry a Henry Augustus Boardman
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Inquire of the decayed merchants of any city, go through the teeming ranks of seam stresses, school-mistresses, and boarding-house keep- 116 THE BIBLE IN THE COUNTING-HOUSE. ers, go to the widows asylums and other kindred institutions, and see wiiat an amount of suffering and sorrow you can trace to this vicious principle of endorsing. It is a perennial fountain of trouble, the bitter streams of which have desolated thousands of once happy homes. One is sometimes almost ready, in surveying a wr...eck of this kind, to denounce the principle itself, which has been the occasion of the disaster, as unworthy of a place among the imple ments of honourable commerce. Nor is this feelirio* O abated by the suggestion, that no one is compelled to endorse for his friend, and that it is wrong for men to assume responsibilities of this sort dispropor- tioned to their property. It is wrong. No man has a right to imperil the comfort and earthly happiness of his family for the sake of accommodating his neighbour.
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