The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-05

He may look like all other young men. He
is here to-day. He NAV look like all othe,
young mon, but God and his mother know he
is hero. Do not tread on him. d. not swear
senseless errand. Say to him good morning.
"good evening"" "good bye" You have that
mans destiny for two worlds in your keep,
ing. Do not say: "If he does his work he'e
that is all have to do with him. God has
made you his guardian. You treat him as
we're dead. My soul sometimes boils with
utter indignation as see the way employees
are treated in these cities and elsewhere.
May God pity them and God keep them.
There are hundreds OF people here
! who know what I speak about and the
truth Of what speak. Ah, my friends. go
further than this. Look after the positive
spiritual welfare Of YOUR employees You
have their interests in your hands You
can address them as no one else can They
are bound to respect yon You have the
keys Of the establishment. Now, you go
around among them illustrating the beauty
Of the Christian religion. You go among
hands with hard spirit They
around au with that that spirit among your
employees aud the wheel Of fortune will
turn and you will be pauper, and your
daughter will go to the workhouse, and your
son will die on the scaffold. But you go
among YOUR employees in kindly. loving, SYM
thetic. Christian spirit and say to this young
man with pale cheeks and i backing cough: o. ei,
days, or a week, and get a breath
of the hills: get fixed up and then
come back Your wages will go right
on. You hardly IRE able to stand up. just
| 90 off for few days" When young man
loses his mother do not demand that he come
| H. <ho Ua
, him at least one week to get over that whica
he will never get over. At the foot OF this
pulpit, when came to the close OF a
service years ago, man stood.
young man, very pale. He said:
| ''This is the first day I have been out
, for month" "Ah," I said 'sI am sorry
you have been sick" ''Yes," he said, Il
heard you preach sermon on & restitution o1
about a month ago. l had taken money
from my employer and my conscience
wrought upon me so nightly that I have
| been down sick" I said: "How much did
You take Of the money! He said so
much. said: "Have you put any of IT
backT' ooh, yes" he said, Il have paid It
nearly all back If live amer month ho.oo wouds 10
| me in the month before got the money paid
back if should die? What would you ad-
| wise me to dor I said: care you trying
right hard to pay it backT' He said:
eyes, I have paid it almost all back
and in q month know 1 shall
pay it all back. What shall I do' 'f
should 20 to my employers and tell them
mo out and disgrace me and my wife and my
little baby. What shall dor said: You
are sure YOU will pay it backT' eyes, have
it nearly all paid back" You are sure you
can nay itina month"; eyes" Isaid: "You
go on and pay it back. Live with the utmost
economy until you pay it back. You will not
die in this month-you will not" About
pulpit, his face radiant The roses had come
back to bis cheek He said: "It Is all right.
have paid it all back" said: 81 knew you
would. knew the Lord would let you
live until you paid it back" Oh, do not
be hard Do not put temptations in the
way Of young men. Do not have money
living around which shall tempt them in their
drawer. What would become OF us If God
had not given us another chance2 Now,
you give that young. man another
chance. Do not be hard on those
who have fallen. Give them another
chance. Do not spring on them like hyena.
Do not call in the police Take that young
man who has done wrong; take him home;
take him home; give him another chance.
There is many a, young man who
wrong again if you will only give him
chance. We can afford to give others a
chance. We would have been in perdition
before this if God had not given us another
chance. ave, ten thousand chances. look
into the faces of a great many employers
to-day, and l beseech you not only 60
to heaven yourself, but take your en-
ploves with you. In some establishments II
is almost impossible for young man to be
Nh how thoy epnfH ar him. how
they deride him, how they caricature him;
You go into your store, employer, and put
your foot down on such imposition. General
Zethon was one of the old military comman-
ders of Frederick the Great. He was a
Christian. Frederick the Great was an
inf nde l.no One b,rssy ssy ssted sT to old be
eused @ from military service for a little
while because he wanted to sit at the Holy
Communion, He was granted absence. A
few DAYS after, General Zethon, the old COM
mander, was dining with the King and other
notables. and the King loosely said
''Well, zethon, how did the Holy
Communion last Friday M digest% ,vni+s Oia ID
the driven snow, arose and said: Your
, Majesty, have imperiled my life hundred
| times on the battle field for you. and there
has not been a time in the last thirty years
when would not have fought for your Ma
| jesty; but I think you do wrong when
! YOU insult the Christian. religion, and
forgive me-, your Majesty, your
old co'nmander-for 1 cannot SIT IN IN
! Jesus" King Frederick the Great leaped
from his seat, threw out his hand, end said:
"Forgiye me, father; you will never be
bothered again" There are in the estab-
lshments Of these cities men who are
Just as brave as that old General: They
are trying to serve God, but what
a time they have Of it! What
| unon them. know young men in New
| York and Brooklyn who have been most out.
rageousy maltreated by employers and by
their associates just because they loved the
Lord Jesus and were thorough Chris
tians. Oh. the time will come when
YOU will be done with your buying and
Sc ling and manufacturing and building, and
God will ask You about those people who
have been in your employ. He will say:
"Are they here; will they be hereP' Oh,
shipbuilders, where will the crew be at the
! last2 Will they come into the celestial har-
Dor? Those men who have been tossed on
; the seas, will they come into the haven
of rest? Oh, ye bankers, are those
men who are running up and
down the long lines Of figures, and handling
the drafts and the checks and the govern
ment securities are they keeping their ac-
counts right with God! The credit account
of mercies received and the debit account OF
sins pardoned. Oh, ye drygood merchants,
out fabrics Of apparel for the foot,
the hand, the back-are they to
20 unclothed into eternity! Oh, grocery
merchants, shall your young men who are
dealing out the fabrics, dealing out the food,
the food for the body and the food for the