Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-04-17
WANTED; YOUNG MEN.


Ii is said that the market is overstocked
with men seeking employment, and yet
there is always a demand for intelligent. re-
liable, and energetic men to fll places Of
trust and position. But they must be
members not only Of the genus homo, but
of the species 'Utr for such there are al
ways open places waiting to be filed. Hen
ry Ward Beeeher thus describes the sort
which are wanted
Who are the men that are needed in this
worldl Young men that shall bear bur
dens. We have enough mullen stalks, we
want oak trees We have enough mush-
rooms, we want TIMBER We have enough
men that are willing TO do anything for the
sake OF getting along, but what are they
WORTH They arc bridges for men to walk
over. They are tools. Men use them like
sand paper, to scour with, and then throw
them down and trample them under foot.
A young man that does not know how to
say No. = young man that has not power
to resist the cup when 1t IS presented to
hIm-what Is he but poor miserable wash
CLOTH but rag, dishonored, and put TO the
Tilest uses2 Who cares for him, or mourns
over him, but some Christian mother or
Christian minister2 But a young man that
knows how TO say mo" that knows how
to resist evil; that knows how to give buffet
for temptation-is not he hardening him
self2 Is not he making his bones tough
particularly his backbones? He IS beeom-
ing columnar And it IS such as he that
are sought after in business 4 man says,
Here Is a difficult department in my es-
tablishment, and | would pay almost any
price If | could find a man that | could
trust. Says the man whom he addresses,
Il know an impraeticable sort of fellow /
think might suit you He viii stick towhat
he thinks is right at all hazards. You can
not turn him from it by any power on
earth. Says the other man, / want
ignumvite man; send him TO me Let it
once be known that mar cannot be cajol-
ed; that he viii not lie even for himself that
be viii not steal, and has prejudice against
stealing; let it De known that he has been
tried and that there is inward principle in
him, aud let US put him up at auction, and
| viii get million bid on him. Men are
the things that are most needed in New
York Why, there is no timber in the
market that is gathered up so greedily as
they are. There is nothing 50 much needed
in business, in all departments of it, as
moral principle And yet merchants will
teach young men to lie; and, for the sake Of
monetary profit cajole customers. And
when, by-and-by, these young men grow up,
they become on their own account, filchers,
steaiers, and liars. You think that the
young men Of this generation are corrupt
and worthless. They arc; but the blame
rests on your shoulders. You we're their
sehoolmasters. You taught them tolie and
cheat in your interest; and now they do it
in their OVID Now your own chickens
come home to roost. Merchants North and
South have been raising by the wholesale,
damnable young men without principle.
And a young man if he would save himself
from destruction, must cling to that an
Choir of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
which entereth into that within the veil. F"
-NOJnlng else can insure MIN safety.