Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-05

public, after his proud refusal 20 serve as a
] Bunday-achOpl superintendent or the rinrdi.
an Of the infant class Golfers, after all this,
and his manly refusal to "hotray any conn.
/ dcnce reposed In him." which he seems to con.
/ slider something very remarkable. After all
| this, he turns out TO be n cheap man, and of.
/ fers to do twice us much work for lust ao
| much pay ne the street lnboror receives. He
VIII sell goods, pack goods and mark cases,
help the pOrtcr and assist In the books, devOt-
! ing brain and muscle 20 his employers, and
| asks only the pay OF the man who can't read,
doesn know how TO write, and scrapes the
] streets under the Commissioner orders, and
/ carts of the mud 20 the dumping ground. II
| T. really too bad that such expensive preamble
| should herald such cheap resolution.
Now | have preached longer sermon than
! intended, but felt sorry for the young man
! when ! read his advertisement, IL seemed
| to me that could read between the lines
and see how long he had been out of employ
! mont how badly he wanted and perhaps need
| ed work, how he had been disappointed here
| and there and how, at Inst, he Joined the for.
! lorn hope of that great army Of unemployed
! men IN our great cities, aud after all per
! sonal applications and the assistance of Friends
| mad failed, he had resOrted to the column
! headed "situatiOns wanted out West
we can't realize the helpless pathos in that
column OF the great daiiies-and there he had
| poured out his disappointment and bitterness
| IN his advertisement. And IL was the wrong
! way, for him to go Mt 1t. In the worldlest
! kind of sense II was wrong; IL was poor
/ policy; Il was bad Judgment, and 1t wasn't
good morals, 70 kick at the church and strike
at the Sunday5chool just because he wanted
l
school didn't stand between him and work. l
venture 70 say there are more Christian mer-
chants in Boston than atheists. I know there
are more employment Bureaus under the
management Of the Y. N. G. A. than are sus-
tained by the National Liberal League.
It can TO assist him or any other applicant
to get work in cities where a hundred appli-
cants stand ready TO spring at the first vacan-
cy. And | was sorry TO see the young man
sappng 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 better2 Yes,
son, and so might you. am sure 1 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 ans 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 aud the mercantile
world does not look with suspicion and aver
sion upon Sunday-schOol superintendents
They are not bad men. You can't run q man
OUT OF town, or put him in jail or hang him,
for being Suuday-schOOl superintendent.
Ihey used 70 do such things. People used to
nate Sunday-schOOl superintendents just as
cordially rs 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 aud
presses to print your little advertisements in
the same spirit, and just as quickly, rs they
would sacrifice the superintendent. And we
know, too, that the treasurer of the Sunday
school isn't invariably and By nature de-
faulter, If 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 II my sermon has given
the young mans "ad" a wider range and help
ed him to good place, am glad of il. hope
he has found steady situation, with less work
and more pay than he seemed TO think his
qualifications call for. And | do hope, the
n hat
be won't crowd all the sins of this poor faulty
old world into square and a half and chuck
them on onto the church. The next time.
give the Democrats n dig; hit the Republicans
a kick; give the Greenbackers fits; strike
Colonel lngersoll, he can stand It; but for
mercy's sake don't try 10 crowd all the rasCal-
ty and villainy and heartlcssness and badness
in the world upon the church. II isn't tair; it
isn't true; II isn't sensible, it s awfully foolish
sweeping insinuations yourself when you
make them.