THE UPRIGHT BUSINESS MAN.
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An eloquent writer somewhere SAYS:
There Is TO being in the world for whom
feel higher moral respect and admira-
lion. than for the upright man of business.
No-nol for Inc philanthropist. the mission
ary. or the martyr. | feel thatI could
more easily be martyr, than a man of
that lofty moral uprightness. And let me
say. vet more distinctly. that it is not for
the generous man feel that kind of res>
pecL Generosity seems tc me low quail
ity-a mere mpulse-compared with the
lofty virtue | speak of. 1t is not for the
man who distributes extensive Charles
who bestows magnificent donations That
may a. be very well. speak not to dispar>
age it wish that there were more of i,
and vet it may exist with a want of the
true lofty unbending uprightness. This is
not the man then Of whom speak; but it is
he WHO stands, amidst all the exIgenries of
trade. firm, calm, disinteres:ed. and up
right. 1t is the man who can see another
mans distress as well as his own. 1t is the
man whose mind his own advantages do
not blind nor cloud for an instant; who
could sit as Judge upon question between
himself and his neig hbor, just as safely as
the purest magistrate on the bench OF JUS.
tice. All how much richer than ermine-
Low far nobIer than the train of magisterial
authority, how more awful than the guar
ded pomp Of ofmajcstic TRUTH Yes, il is the
man who is lrue--true to himself, RS neigh
Dor, and his G3d; true to his right, true p
his conscience, and who feels that the
slightest suggestion Of that conscience is
more to him than the chance of acquiring
hundred estates.