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Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...and pour forth of his ill-gotten gains on the plate or for Christian charities. God looks not at his gilded exterior. He looks at the heart; and the proverb of the wise man with reference to the rich defrauder, that gilded sham of humanity, is this: "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor." It is no excuse for these miserable tricks of trade to assert that they are but commercial customs, rendered necessary and innocuous by their very universality. The plea amounts simply to the assertion that we have only to render a sin wide-spread to make it, if not a virtue, at least innocent and justifiable. The excuse is worthless. The plain simple law of God applied to these customs of trade, like the touch of Ithuriel's spear, reveals them in all their deformity and sin. We have, besides, a practical comment on these morals of trade. The very men who thus cheat by wholesale, and make every article of their manufacture contain its abundant proportion of imposition, crush, "on principle," as they say, the wretched, halfpaid clerk who makes a.fraudulent entry in the cash-book, or extracts from their coffers a petty sum. If a subordinate presume to deceive them, as they are daily deceiving the public, he is never let off from the police office or the state prison, on the plea that it is the custom of trade. These men have no notion that to do unto them as they do unto others would be right or just. They are above law, one would suppose, and their sins are but harmless, they think. They forget that the sins of the rich and the reputable have a double guilt. The errors of those who are well-known and widely esteemed, give others countenance in their excesses and crimes. The violatio...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...and pour forth of his ill-gotten gains on the plate or for Christian charities. God looks not at his gilded exterior. He looks at the heart; and the proverb of the wise man with reference to the rich defrauder, that gilded sham of humanity, is this: "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor." It is no excuse for these miserable tricks of trade to assert that they are but commercial customs, rendered necessary and innocuous by their very universality. The plea amounts simply to the assertion that we have only to render a sin wide-spread to make it, if not a virtue, at least innocent and justifiable. The excuse is worthless. The plain simple law of God applied to these customs of trade, like the touch of Ithuriel's spear, reveals them in all their deformity and sin. We have, besides, a practical comment on these morals of trade. The very men who thus cheat by wholesale, and make every article of their manufacture contain its abundant proportion of imposition, crush, "on principle," as they say, the wretched, halfpaid clerk who makes a.fraudulent entry in the cash-book, or extracts from their coffers a petty sum. If a subordinate presume to deceive them, as they are daily deceiving the public, he is never let off from the police office or the state prison, on the plea that it is the custom of trade. These men have no notion that to do unto them as they do unto others would be right or just. They are above law, one would suppose, and their sins are but harmless, they think. They forget that the sins of the rich and the reputable have a double guilt. The errors of those who are well-known and widely esteemed, give others countenance in their excesses and crimes. The violatio...
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