St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30
Rev. j. E. Smith Sermonizes
to Clerks on the Early
Closing.
New Catholic Dignitaries Of
fieiate in the st. Paul
Churches.
A st. Paul Merchant Rounds
Up a Debtor in Jail in
Canada.
c. N. Bell Suggests a Plan to
Take the Place Of Car
niValS.

The members of the retail clerks as
ISOLATION, to the number of 100 or more,
occupied the front rows of pews at the
Central Park NJ. K. church last evening
to hear Rev. DIR. j. f. Smith on the
''early closing movement" The balance
of the church was crowded with men,
berS of the regular congregation and
others interested in the movement. The
doctor was at his best, and delivered an
eloquent and forcible address, filled with
tirSt-class advice for both employer and
employee. The text was contained in
Matthew vii IL: Therefore all things
whatsoever We would that men should
do to You, do you even so to them; for
this is the law and the prophets.
"a casual reading 81 the Scriptures"
said the orator, "will show that the
Bible is not book of rules, but a book
of principles. 1t lays down great, broad
principles, and then sets every lie to
working out its own destiny. The
moral law has never been repealed and
it may all be summed up IN the verse
have read. 1t cuts up all SeliShness,
all narrowness, all oppression, and all
wrong. Charles Reade's great book,
Put yourself in His Place." was pub
lished at time when the irOnwOrkerS
of England were being ground to the
earth and were in their deSper-
alton ready for almost everything
in the way of violence. and has not
been forgotten to this day. The diff
Guilty is that we forget that other men
have rights. No man, ever started out
deliberately, to be Il tyrant-nOt even
Nero. The trouble with Nero and with
other tyrants is that they thought no
one else hau any rights, and that they
were the only ones who had the right to
be amused und satisfied. The slave
driver never thought he was treadlng,
upon any rights of his slaves. He
thought the law have read had no ap-
plieation to his ease He would say
look at the Bible. All the patriarchs
had their slaves, and nowhere, from
Genesis to Revelations, was the saying
''Thea. shalt not hold thy brother
slave" The verse | have read cuts this
up by the roots" ~
Different.fr6m what many of you eX-
pect this evening, Shall put myself in
the piace;of the employer, and show
that it is the interest of the merchant
to close early and give his employees
the opportunity for social culture which.
every man demands. TO do this we:
must go back to first principies-baek.
to the moral dignity of man. No mat
ter who the man is, how deficient he.
may be in education, still helS made in
Gods image. When the employer
looks upon the cash boy and says my.
brother" or upon the typewriter girl or
the young lady who measures ribbon,
and says, "my sister" we will have gone
a long ways towards banishing OPP
preston.
This text cuts both ways, and reaches
both employer and employe. Capital
has its rights, and is sacred. Were it
not for capital you would all be out of
employment tomorrow morning. Yes.
capital has its rights. The man who
tolls and accumulates money has right
to have his business so conducted that
he shall be successful in business"
The doctor then proceeded to lay
down lots OF good advice for both mer-
chants and clerks. ''Never be afraid
of doing too much" said he to the lat
ter. He then urged upon the young
men before him the Importance of the
Christian life.