Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-06

OF employees doing their whole duty,
They forget not their own early strug
giles. They remember when they meas
ured the first yard OF nankeen and
weighed the first quarter OF tea or turned
their first bannister or shingled the first
roof. They remember how lonely they
sometimes felt and how discouraged and
how cold and hungry and sick, and
though they may be between 80 and 20
years Of age, they know Just how boy
feels between l0 and 20 and young
man between 20 and 20. They were
not let down out OF heaven with pulleys
OF silk in a wicker basket satin lined,
famed by cherub's wing. No; they
started in toughest cradle on whose
rocker misfortune put her violent foot
and tipped them up. The old man re-.
members it and is very kind to the boys.
Ion must not only be kind yourself,
but see that your overseers and agents
and head clerks are Kind to those under
them. Sometimes getting little
brief authority those under you
may be courteous to you, but
brutal 10 those under them. God
only knows what some OF the lads suffer
down IN the cellar or up in the loft OF
our great commercial establishments.
They are kicked and cutIed and spit on.
They have no one to appeal 10. You.
the capitalist, you. the manufacturer,
You, the business firm, have not heard
Of it. These employers ought TO he es.
pecially careful about putting special
temptation in the way OF your en-
ployes. DO not let money lay around
unyuarded. Let there be no uncertain.
ty about the exact amount in the money
drawer. DO not let your account books
be loosely kept. God knows there are
enough temptations for our young men
without putting before them any that are
unnecessary. Ii men in Wall street,
thirty Years counted honest have fallen
into Sing-Sing, try not too severely the
lad at fifteen. II he do wrong do not
Pounce on Him Like Hyena
Il he prove himself unfit for your conf
dence 80 not call in the police, but take
him home and tell the reason you dis.
miss him to those who will give him an.
other chance. Many Il young man has
done wrong once who never did wrong
again. | think We can afford to give
everybody a second chance when We
remember that they would all have been
IN perdItinn before this il God had not
given us 10000 chances.
b.. hard and mercless with your EN-.
ployes, and should not wonder il the
wheel OF fortune should turn, and you
become pauper, and your daughter
should 90 to the poor house, and your
son die on the gallows. Sometime when
you hear your employe with an omin.
Gus cough, or see him with too pallid a
cheek, tsl him 10 stay at home 4 day or
two. Or, ii hi. father die, do not lie.
mand that he come to the store the
next day after the funeral. Give him
at least week TO get over that which
he will never get over. Employers, en-
courage your employees to positive re.
ligious life. Iou know what Brooklyn
and New York and all other great cities
are, and YOU know that all our young
men need God. In many stores and
factories orr young men, instead OF be-
ing encouraged to be Christians, have
Their Religion Laughed At.
Ziethan was one 0! the brave genera 3 of
Frederick the Great, of Prussia, AMI WAS
a Christian. I,eihan got excused that
he might atten the sacrament. A few
days after, X!c,han was driving with the
King and many distinguished peo-
pie, and in a ,cose way Frederick
the Great said: well, XIelhan,
how dill the sacrament digest last Fri.
day. The old general rose and said:
Il have served YOU III many hard bat.
tie and would lay down my life for
YOU il necessary. Bnt your majesty
does wrong TO use dsrespact to the
Christian religion. IOu must pardon
an 0!d servant who cannot bear in
silence any dlsrespect done 10 his Lord
and SAVIOR" The king held out his
hand and begged the cd soldiers for.
giveness and said: "liappy II ethan,
YOU shall be disturbed no more In
number spheres many oil employc has
carira,ured the religion OF his employer
and many Il young man has been as
brave az /'r,han, the commander oil the
Prussian army.
charge you, o, employer, that you
reach heaven and that you
Biog All Your People With You.
You will all soon be done with buying
and selling and manufacturing and
building, and God will ask you where
are thos" people over whom
YOU had 80 much influence.
Are they here and are they coming
here? ., shipmss,crs INTO what bar.
Dor will your crew finally come. Tossed
on the sea so long will they make the
port Of Heaven? o, bankers, are those
Young men in your counting house who
run up long line OF figures AMI handle
cheeks and drafts and roll mp the bund-
les and securities, keeping their accounts
right with God, the credit account ot
~, r..ies received and the debt account
Of sins uniOrgiyen. d, dry goods mer-
chants, are your employees selling many
fabrics Of human apparel for foot and
hand and head and hack, vet
Going Out Of the World Unclothed for
Eternity
o, We merchant grocer, are you consent
ing that the clerks OF your store, selling
provisions for the bodies and families OF
men. for so many years shall let their
own souls starve? o, ye manufacturers
OF the United States, With 10 maby
wheels turning, 80 many bands pulling,
80 many new patterns turned out,
80 many goods shipped, 30
many hard days work done, are the
spinners, the engineers. the bakers, the
salesmen, the, the carriers, the watch.
men Oi yorr great establishments work.
ing at everything but their own saliva.
ton? Five, ten, twenty years under
your supervisal. Have you done any
thing for their everlasting weil-being?
FROM such selfshness let us turn away
and live less for ourselves and more for
otha's. What an example oi seli-sacritice
in Christ and how beautifully it has
been illustrated in some oi his people.
Last summer in California was told
bv a gentlemen who rad just returned
from the Sandwich Islands the following
incident. One oi the Sandwich Islands
is gwen up 10 lepers. When a man
becomes 4 leper be is sent there TO die.
He may no, leave the leland. in some
the disease is furih advanced than in
Others. but all OF the inhabitants sooner
or later die OF the leprosy. A physician
in one Of the healthy islands was no,iced
always to have his glove on. For long
while i, had been noticed. One da! be
came TO the public authorities and pull.
ed off his glove and shovel q small