Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-01-19
Wanted: Young Men.

z 1t is said that the market is overstocked with
men seeking employment, and yet there is al
ways demand for intelligent, reliable and
energetic men to fill places of trust and position.
But they must be members not only to the
genus "homo," but of the species ''rir i; for such
there are always open places waiting to be fill
ed. .z., sra s3-.se5sr c.s 1ae a4,-as1.
r Who are the men that are needed in this
world? Young men that shall bear burdens.
We have enough mullen stalks, We want oak
trees! We have enough mushrooms, we want
timber. We have enough men that are will
ing to do anything for the sake of getting along,
but what are they worth? They are 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 Mo-; young man that has not power to
resist the cup when it is presented to him
what is he but poor miserable washeloth, but
a rag, dishonored, and put to the vilest uses?
Who cares for him, or mournsz over him, but
some Christian mother or Christian minister?
But young man that knows how to say NO"
that knows how to resist evil; that knows how
to give buffet for emptation-is not he harden
ing himself? Is not he making his bones tough
= particularly his backbones? He Is becoming
cO!umnar. And it is such as he that are sought
after in business A man says, Here is a
difficult apartment in my establishment, and 7
would pay almost any price if could find a
man that | could trust Says the man whom
he addresses, II know an impracticable sort Of
fellow think might suit you He will stick
to what he thinks is right at all hazards. You
cannot turn him from it by any power on earth"
Says the other man, Il want aslignumvitae a
man; send him to me. . Let it once be known
that a man cannot be cajoled; that he will not
lie even for himself; that he will not steal, and
has a prejudice against stealing, let it be known
that he has been tried and that there is inward
principle in him, and let US put him up at auc-
tion, and [ will 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 as greedily as they are =
There is nothing so 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,
stealers and liars You think that the Young
men of this generation are corrupt and worth
less. they are; but the blame rests on your
shoulders You were their schoolmasters. =
You taught them to lie and cheat in your in
terest and now they do it in their own. Now
your own chickens come home to roost. Mer-
chants North and South have been raising by
the wholesale, damnable young men without
principle. And q young man if he would save
himself from destruction, must cling to that
anchor OF the soul, both sure and steadfast,
which entereth into that within the veil'' No
thing else can insure him safety. PHILADELPHIA
Lutheran Obserrer.