Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-11-04

office therein disqualifes a yopng man from
holding a situation ina elEestaDlished bus
ness house, then don't know hOWaman,i y
going to say anything unjust or ilL-natured
The young man may have good health, a
he says, but If that advertisement does no
run back to the worst kind Of dyspepsia, I'm
mistaken in my diagnosis. And then, why
should he call these Old-fashionedq qualities,
rs if to distinguish them from preaching ant
praying2 Does his old-fashioned "inteli
gence" consider preaching and praying a!
something quite new?-a craze of. the 1871
centuryT-.a modern whim introduced with
new cut Of the coat or style Of hat2 His in
telligence' is indeed, very old-fashioned; de
cidedlY antiquarian for so young a man
Doesn't he really know that praying is Older
than history
Then, in Conclusion. he says, he twill worh
with muscle and brain for the same compen
satlon given by the city for muscle only"
Well, nOwl cheap man after all. After all
| his Lofty scOrn for preaching and preachers;
| after I'll his naughty contempt for prayers in
| public, after his proud refusal to serve as a
| Sunday-sohOOl superintendent or the guardt-
| an Of the infant class Golfers, after all this,
and 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
| fers to do twice as much work for just so
much pay as the street laborer receives. He
viii 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,
doesn't know how TO write, and scrapes the
streets under the Commissioners ORDERS and
carts off 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
j intended, but | felt sorry for the young man
when l 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.
lorn hope Of that great army OF unemployed
men in our great cities, and after all per-
sonal applications and the assistance Offriends
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 dailies-and there he had
in his advertisement. And 1t was the wrong
way for him to go ut 1t. In the Worldliest
kind of sense 1t was wrong; 1t was poor
policy; 1t was bad Judgment and it wasn't
good morals to kick at the church and strike
ut the Sunday-schOOl just because he wanted
a situation. The church and the Sunday
school didn't stand between him and work
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. M. g. A. than are sus-
tained by the National Liberal League.
And | know the Y. M. @. A. will do what
u Chll " ubolSJ MN VI ullJ OIlOL uppllCuly
to get work in cities where hundred appll-
cants stand ready to spring ut the first Vacan-
cy. And | was sorry to see the young man
sapping his friends in that unproYoked and |
very provoking way. / don't like to see this
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
le need be, or is really any too good for this |
world. And he knows, and you know, and we
MI know, that society and the mercantile |
world does not look with suspicion and aver
sion upon Sunday-schOOl superintendents. |
They are not bad men. You can't run a man |
lut Of town, or put him in Jail or hang him,
'Or being Sunday-schOOl superintendent.
they used TO do such things. People used to
late Sunday-schOOl superlntendents just us
cordially as this young man appears to, and
hey would hang them or burn them, as was
most convenient. But bless your simple soul,
'Oung man, the same people would
laYe burned or hanged the editor of the
Boston Herald for having the. type and
presses to print your little advertisements in
he same spirit, and just as quickly, as they
would sacrifice the superintendent. And We
NOW, too, that the treasurer Of tho Sunday
chOOl isn't invariably and by nature de-
hNllply - nv tfJt AObn iglhulli pun mum III
he majority Of instances he will have to bor-
oW money Of himself to default with. And
oW am through and If my sermon has given
he young mans "ad'' a wider range and help
d him to good place, / am glad of 1t. hope
e has found a steady situation, with less work
nd more pay than he seemed to think his
publications call for And | do hope the
ext time he adyertlses for situation, th@t
o won't crowd all the sins Of this poor faulty
Id world into square and a half and chuck
hem of onto the church. The next time.
i've the Democrats dig; hit the Republicans
kick; give the Greenbackers ilts; strike
olOnel IngersOl he can stand It,; but for
lercys sake don't try to crowd all the rasCall-
Y and Ylllalny and heartlessness and badness
] the world upon the church. 1t isn't fair; 1t
M I tTue 1t isn't sensible, it's sawfully foolish;
weeping insinuatlons yourself when you
lake them.