The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-04-02


dollar deposited not given back. The
women''s protective union reports a
case where one of these poor souls,
finding a place where she could get
more wages, resolved to change en-
ployers, and went to get her pay for
work done. The employer says: 81
hear you are going to leave me-"
eyes, she said land am come to
get what you owe me-" He made no
answer. She said: care you not CO.
ing to pay me?' Eyes, "he said, I will
pay you;' and he kicked her down the
stairs.
In the next place.
| NOTICE MECHANICAL LIES.
There is no class of men who admins
ter more to the welfare of the city
than artisans. TO their hand we must
look for the building that shelters us,
for the garments that clothe us, for the
car that carries us. They WELD q
widespread influence. There is much
derision Of what is called "Muscular
Christianity;' but in the latter day OF
the worlds prosperity, | think that
have q right to except Of those stall
wart men OF toll the highest possible
integrity. Many OF them answer all
our expectations, and stand at the
front of religious and philanthropic
enterprises. But this class, like others
that | have named, has in it those
who lack in the element OF veracity
They cannot all be trusted. In times
when the demand for labor is great,
1T is impossible to meet the demands
OF the public, Or do work with that
promptness and perfection that would
at other times be possible. But there
are mechanics whose word cannot be
trusted at any time. No man has g.
right to promise more work than he
can do. There are mechanics who
say that they will come on, Mon
day but they do not come until
| Wednesday. You put work in their
hands that they tell you shall be COM
pleted in 10 days, but it is 80. There
have been houses built of which it
might be said that every nail driven
and every foot of plastering put on,
every yard of pipe laid, every shingle
hammered, every brick mortared,
could tell of falsehood connected
Herewith. There are men attempt
ing to do 10 or fifteen pieces of work
who have not the time or strength to
do more than five or six pieces; but
by promises never fulfilled keep all
the undert akings within their own
grasp: This is what they call "nurs-
ing the job.
How much wrong to his soul and in
suit to God a mechanic would save, if
he promised only so much as he ex-
pected to be able to do. Society has
no right to ask of you impossibilities.
You cannot always calculate correct
ly, and you may fail because you can
not get the help that you anticipate.
But now | am speaking OF the wilful
making of promises that
YOU KNOW YOU CANNOT KEEP.
Did yousay that those shoes should
be mended, that coat repaired, those
bricks laid, that harness sewed, that
door grained, that spout fixed,
or that window glazed, by Sat-
urday, knowing that you would neith-
er be able to do it yourself or get any
one else to do it? Then before God
and man you are liar You may
say that it makes no particular differ
ence, and that if you had told the
truth you would have lost the lob,
and that people expect to be disap-
pointed. But that excuse will not
answer. There is voice of thunder
rolling among the drills and planes,
and shoe lasts, and shears, which
says: "All liars shall have their part
in the lake that burneth with fire and
brimstone."
[ next notice ecclesiastical lies; that
Is, falsehoods told for the purpose of
advancing churches and sects, or for
the purpose of depicting them. There
Is no use In asking many g. Calvinist
what an Arminian believes, for he will
be apt to tell you that the Arminian
believes that man can convert him.
self; or to ask the Arminian what the
Calvinist believes, for no would tell
you that the Calvinist believes that
God made some men just to damn
them. There is no need of asking q
p@do-Baptist what aBaptist believes,
tor ne will be apt to say that the Bap-
fist believes immersion to be posi-
lively necessary to salvation.
1t is almost impossible for one
denomination OF Christians. with
out prejudice or misrepresenta-
ton, to state the sentiment of
an opposing sect. If a. man hates
Presbyterians, and you ask him what
Presbyterians believe, he will tell YOU
that they believe that there are in
fants in hell a span long!
1t IS strange also how Individual
churches will sometimes make mis-
statements about other individual
churches. 1t is especially so in regard
to falsehoods told with reference to
prosperous enterprises. AS long as
church is feeble, and the singing dis
cordant, and the minister, through
the poverty of the church, must 20
with threadbare coat, and here and
there a worshiper sits in the end of g.
pew, having the seat to himself, relig-
lous sympathizers of other churches
will say, what pity" But, let
great
DAY OF PROSPERITY CONE.
and even the ministers of the gospel,
who ought to be rejoiced at the large
ness and extent OF the work, denounce,
and mlsrepresent and falsify, starting
the suspicion in regard to themselves
that the reason they do not like corn
IS because it is not ground in their