St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-24

HlOSI UTutdl III Gnelr ITeaCnl6HG OL lIlOS6
under them. God only knows what some
OF the lads suffer in the cellars and in the
lofts of some Of our great establishments.
They have no one to appeal to. The time
will come when their arm will be strong
and they can defend themselves, but not
now. Alas, for some of the cash boys,
and the messenger boys, and the boys that
sweep the stores. Alas. for some of them!
Now, you capitalist, you, the head man of
the firm, must look, supervise, see those
all around you, investigate all benath you.
And then l charge you not to put unneces-
sary temptation in the way Of your young
men. Do not keep large sums of money
lying around unguarded. Know how
much money there is in the till. DO moi
have the account books loosely kept.
There are temptations inevitable to young
men, and enough of them without your
putting any unnecessary temptations in
their way. Men in Wall street having
thirty years of reputation for honesty have
dropped into Sing Sing and perdition, and
you must be Careful how you try lad OF
10. And if he do wrong, do not
PoUNCE ON HIM
like hyena. If he prove himself I'M
worthy of your confidence do not call in
the police, but take him home, tell why
you dismissed him to those who will give
him another chance. Many young man
has done wrong once, who will never dc
wrong again. All, my friends, / think we
can afford to give everybody another chance,
when, God knows, we should all have been
in perditiOn if He had not given us TO-, 00O
chances. Then, if in moving around your
factory, or mill, or barn or store you are in
eXorable with young men, God will remem-
Der it. Some day the wheel of. fortune
will turn and you will be a pauper, and
your daughter will go to the workhouse,
and your son will die on the scatfold. If.
in moving among your young men, you see
one with an OminouS pallOr of cheek, or
you hear him coughing behind the counter.
say to him: ''Stay home day or two and
rest, or go out and breathe the breath of
hills" If his mother die, do not demand
that on the day after the funeral he be in
the store. Give him at least week to get
over that which he will never get over. EN-
ployers. urge upon your employees above
all, positive religious life. You can do it.
You are in a position not to be laughed at,
or scoffed at, or jeered at. You hold the
keys of the establishment, and by your po-
sition you demand reverence. Now, urge
all those employees into religious life. So
far from that, how is it. young man? In
stead of being cheered ON ~.
1.-THE ROAD TO HEAvEN,n
some of you are caricatured, and it is a.hard
thing for you to keep your Christian integ-
rity IN that store OF factory where there are
SO many hostile to religion. Ziethen, a
brave general under Frederick the
Great, was Christian. Frederick the
Great was an intidel. One day Ziethen.
the venerable, white-haired general, asked
to be excused from military duty that he
might attend the holy sacrament. He was
excused. A few days after Ziethen was
dining with the king and with many
notables Of Prussia, when Frederick the
Great, in a jocose way, said: ''Well,
Ziethen, how did the sacrament of last
Friday digest?" The venerable. old warrior
arose and said: ''For your majesty have
risked my life many time on the battle
field, and for your majesty would be
willing to die; but you dc wrong when you
insult the Christian religion. You will for
give me if l, your old military servant can
not bear in silence any insult to my Lord
and my Savior" Frederick the. Great
leaped to his feet and he put out his hand
and said: Happy Ziethen. forgive me- for
give me. You will never be bothered
again." Oh, there are many being scoffed
at for their religion, and L thank God there
are many men as brave as Ziethen. Go to
heaven yourself, oh, employer! take all
your people with you. Soon you will be
through with buying and selling, and
through with manufacturing and building,
and God will ask you: where are all
those people over whom you had so great
influence? Are they here! Will they be
here?" Oh. shipowners into what harbor
will your crew sail? After being tossed on
so MANY SEAS
will they gain the port of heaven? o,
bankers, will those young men who are
running up and down the long lines of fig
ures, and handling the checks and drafts.
and handling the roll of government secur-
ities-are they keeping their accounts right
with God?-the credit account of mercles
received and the debt account of sins for
given. o, you dry goods merchants! Are
those young men under your care who are
providing fabrics of apparel for head and
hand, and foot and back, to go unclothed-
unclothed into eternity? o. you merchant
grocers! Are those young men that under
your care are providing food for the bodies
and families OF men, to go starved for
ever? o, you manufacturers of this United
States! with so many wheels flying and so
many new patters turned out, and so many
goods shipped-are the spinners, are the
draymen. are the statesmen. are the watch
erS of your establishments working out
everything but their own salvation? Can
it be that, having those people under your
care, five, ten twenty years, you have
made no everlasting impression for good
ON their immortal souls? God turn us all
back from such selfishness, and teach us to
live for others and not for ourselves. Christ
set us the example of sacrifice, and so do
many of his disciples. One summer, in
California, gentleman who had just re-
moved from the Sandwich Islands. told
me this incident. He said one of the Sand
witch Islands is
DEVOTED TO LEPERs.
People getting sick of the leprosy on the
islands are sent to that isle of lepers They
never come off. They are in different
stages of disease, but all who die on that
island die of leprosy. On one of the
healthy islands there was physician who
always wore his hand gloved, and it was
often discussed why he always had glove
on that hand under all circumstances. One
day this physician came to the city author
ties, and he withdrew his glove, and he
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on that hand spot of the leprosy, and
that L am doomed to die. I might hide
this for little while and keep away from
the isle of lepers; but am physician, and
can go to that island and administer to
the sufferings of those who are farther gone
in the disease, and I should like to go now.
1t would be selfish in me to stay amid these
luxurious surroundings when l might be OF
so much help to the wretched. Send me
to the isle of the lepers." They. seeing
the spot of leprosy, of course took the man
into custody. He babe farewell to his
family and his friends. It was an agoniz-
ing farewell. He could never see them
again. He was taken to the isle of the
lepers, and there wrought among the sick
until Frustrated by his own death, which
at last came. Oh! that was magnificent
self-denial, magnificent sacrifice, only sur
passed by that of Him who exiled Himself
from the hearth of heaven to this leprous
island of world, that He might physician
our wounds, and weep our griefs and die
our deaths, turning the isle of a leprous
world into a great, blooming, paradisica