The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-13

office " therein disqualifies young man from
holding situation in - welEestablishedb BUSH
ness house," then don't know how man is
going to say anything unjust or ill-natured.
The young man may have "good health, as
he says, but if that advertisement does not
run back to the worst kind of dyspepsia, Pm
mistaken in my diagnosis. And then, why
should he call these "old-fashoned qualities"
as II TO distinguish them from preaching and
praying? Does his old-fashioned "intelli-
gence consider preaching and praying as
something quite new?-a craze of the 18th
century?-a modern within introduced with d
new cut OF the coat or style of hat? His in
telngence" is, indeed, very old-fashioned; de-
cidedly antiquarian for so young man.
Doesn he really know that praying is older
than history?
Then in conclusion. he saws, he twill work
with muscle and brain for the same compen-
sation given by the city for muscle only"
wen, now! cheap man after all. After all
MS lotty scorn for preaching and preachers;
after all his naughty contempt for prayers in
pubic, after his proud refusal to serve as q
Sunday-school Superintendent or the guardi-
an of the infant class Golfers, after all this,
ana his manly refusal to 'betray any conf
dence reposed in him" which he seems to con-
slider something very remarkable. After all
this, he turns out to be cheap man, and Of
1erS TO do twice as much work for Just so
much pay as the street laborer receives. He
will sell goods, pack goods and mark cases,
help the porter and assist in the books, devot-
ing brain and muscle to his employers, and
asks only the pay of the man who can't read,
doeSnt know how to write, and scrapes the
streets under the Commissioners orders and
carts on the mud TO the dumping ground. 1t
Is really too bad that such expensive preamble
should herald such cheap resolution.
Now, have preached longer sermon than
l intended, but felt sorry for the young man
when read his advertisement. 1t seemed
TO me that could read between the lines"
and see how long he had been out of employ
ment how badly he wanted and perhaps need
ed work, how he had been disappointed here
and there and how, at last, he Joined the for.
men in our great Cities and after all per-
sonal applications and the assistance Of friends
had failed, he had resorted to the column
headed "situations wanted"-and out West
we can't realize the helpless pathos in that
column of the great daides-and there he had
poured out his disappointment and bitterness
way for him to go at it. In the worldlieSt
kind of sense it was wrong; it was poor
policy; it was bad Judgment, and it wasn't
good morals, to kick at the church and strike
ut the Sunday-schOol just because he wanted
Il situation. The church and the Sunday
school didn't stand between him and work. L
venture to say there are more Christian mer-
chants in Boston than atheists. l know there
are more employment Bureaus" under the
management of the Y. NJ. G. A. than are sus
tanned by the National Liberal League.
And know the Y. NJ. G. A. will do What
1t can to assist him or any other applicant
to get work in cities where hundred appli-
cants stand ready to spring at the first vacan-
cy- And | was sorry to see the young man
slapping his friends in that unprovoked and
very provoking way. l don't like to see this
tendency in the boys to maui the church That
young man knows as every young man knows,
that preachers, with rare exceptions, are good,
honest men. They might be better? Yes,
son, and so might you. am sure wish you
were, both of you. And nobody says amen to
this wish more heartily than the preacher. [
don't suppose that even the young man who
wrote and published in the Boston Herald the
text for this sermon of mine is any better than
he need be, or is really any too good for this
world. And he knows, and you know, and we
all know, that society and the mercantile
world does not look with suspicion and aver
sion upon Sunday-School superintendent.
They are not bad men. You cant run man
out OF town, or put him in Jail or hang him,
for being a Sunday-school superintendent.
They used to do such things. People used to
hate Sunday-school superintendent just as
cordially as this young man appears to- and
they would hang them or burn them, as was
most convenient. But bless your simple soul,
young man, the same people would
have burned or hanged the editor of the
Boston Herald for having the type and
presses to print your little advertisement, in
the same spirit and just as quickly, as they
would sacrifice the superintendent And we
know, too, that the treasurer of the Sunday
school isn't invariably and by nature de-
faulter, II he ever does default poor man, in
the majority of instances he will have to bor-
row money of himself to default with. And
now am through, and if my sermon has given
the young mans "ad' wider range and help
ed him to good place, am glad of it. hope
he has found steady situation, with less work
and more pay than he seemed to think his
qualifications call for And l do hope, the
next time he advertises for situation, that
he won't crowd all the sins of this poor faulty
old world into square and half and chuck
them OF onto the church. The next time
give the Democrats a d ig; hit the Republicans
a kick; give the Greenbackers fits; strike
Colonel lngersoll, he can stand it; but for
mercy's sake don't try to crowd all the rascal
ty and villainy and heartlessness and badness
in the world upon the church. 1t isn't fair; it
isn't true; it isn't sensible, it's awfully foolish;
and it isn't honest. You don't believe these
sweeping insinuations yourself when you
make them.