Honesty the Best Policy.
By Sabbath Recorder
An exchange facetiously asks whether it was worth while for Ferdinand Ward to steal $13,000,000 in order to procure the privilege of shoveling ashes and filing castings in Sing Sing. It certainly was a dearly-bought privilege; but, after all, the question is more serious than facetious. Does it ever pay to do wrong? Is there ever any profit in greed and selfishness? This is not a question of amounts, but of qualities. If it is wrong to steal millions, it is wrong to steal one dollar. It is the spirit of the man which gives character to his acts, good or bad, rather than the consequences involved in his deeds. Starting from that central point, every wrong act, every unkind word, every impure thought, smites back upon its author with crushing force, and sinks him lower in the scale of real life than prison bars alone can do.—Sabbath Recorder.