A merchant prince once pointed out a clerk in his employ to a
friend, and said, “That young man is my banker. He alone has
entire control of my finances. He could abscond with a hundred
thousand dollars without my preventing it.” Seeing the friend’s
evident disapproval at so great trust in one man, he continued,
“I would trust him as I would my minister. He is absolutely
honest; he could not steal.” And there are thousands of such
men who have passed beyond temptation because of the ingrained,
undisturbed integrity, acquired by a reverence for right and
an early resolution to be true.--JAMES T. WHITE,
“Character Lessons.”
(1429)
See BARGAIN DISCOUNTENANCED; CHRISTIAN HONESTY.