The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-12-18

there is a premium on iniquity,
One morning the employer comes to
the establishment. He goes into his
counting room and throws up his hands
and shouts, "Why the safe has been
robbedw What is the matter2 Moth
ing, nothing; only the clerk who has
been practicing a good while ON Gus.
TONERS is practicing little ON the em-
ployer, No new principle introduced
into that establishment, 1t is poor
rule that will not work both ways.
You must never steal unless you can do
it well, He did it we'll am not talk
ing an abstraction; | am talking ter
rible and crushing fact.
TEMPTATIONS IN TRADE,
Now here is a young man. Look at
him today. Look at him five years
from now, after he has been under trial
in such an establishment. Here he
stands in the shop today, his cheeks
rudy with the breath of the hills. He
unrolls the goods on the counter in
gentlemanly style, He commends them
to the purchaser. lie points out all
the good points in the fabric He eff
fects the sale. The goods are wrapped
up and he dismisses the customer with
a cheerful good morning." and the
country merchant departs so impressed
with the straightforwardness of that
young man that he will come again
and again, every spring and autumn,
unless interfered with.
The young man has been now in that
establishment five years. He unrolls
the goods on the counter. He says to
the customer, Now those are the best
goods we have in our establishment"
they have better on the next shelf. He
says, "We are selling these goods less
than cost" they are making twenty per
cent He says, "There is nothing like
them in all the city," there are fifty
shops that want to sell the same thing.
He says, "Now, that is a durable
article, it will wash" yes, it will wash
out
The sale is made, the goods are wrap
ped up, the country merchant goes off
feeling that he has an equivalent for his
money, and the sharp clerk goes into
the private room of the counting house,
and he says, well, | got rid of those
goods at last; really thought we never
would sell them; | told him we We're
selling them less than cost, and he
thought he was getting good bargain;
got rid of them at last" And the head
of the firm says, That's well done;
splendidly done!"
Meanwhile God had recorded eight
lies-four lies against the young man,
four lies against his employer, for l I'M
dertake to say that the employer is re
sponsible for all the iniquities of his
clerks, and all the iniquitics of those
who are clerks of these clerks, down to
the tenth generation, if those employ
ers inculcated iniquitous and damning
principles.
l stand before young men this morn
ing who are under this pressure. say,
come out of it. "Oh" you say, II
can't; / have my widowed mother to
support, and if a man loses a situation
now he can't get another one" say,
come out of it, Go home to your
mother and say to her, Mother, can't
stay in that shop and be upright; what
shall do2" and if she is worthy of you
she will say, Come out of it, my son
we will just throw ourselves on him
who hath promised to be the God of
the widow and the fatherless; he will
take care of us" And | tell you no
young man ever permanently suffered
by such a course of conduct.
In Philadelphia in a drug shop
young man said to his employer, Il
want to please you, really, and | am
willing to sell medicines on Sunday;
but can't sell this patent shoe black
ing on Sunday" We'll, said the head
man, ''you will have to do it or else
you will have to go away" The young
man said: 81 can't do it, am willing
so sell medicines, but not shoe black
Ing" 'Well, then, go! Go now"
The young man went away. The Lord
looked after him. The hundreds of
thousands of dollars he won in this
world were the smallest part of his for
tune God honored him. By the
course he took he saved his soul as
well as his fortunes in the future.
A man said to his employer, II can't
wash the wagon on Sunday morning; |
am willing to wash it on Saturday after
noon; but, sir, you will please excuse
me, can't wash the wagon on Sunday
morning" His employer said, You
must wash it; my carriage comes in
every Saturday night, and you have
got to wash it on Sunday morning"
II can't do it," the man said They
parted. The Lord looked after him,
grandly looked after him He is worth
today a hundred fold more than his
employer ever was or ever will be, and
he saved his soul.
Young men, it is safe to do right
There are young men in this house to-
day who, under this storm of tempta-
ton, are striking deeper and deeper
their roots and spreading out broader
their branches. They are Daniels in
Babylon, they are Josephs in the Egyp-
tan court, they are Pauls amid the
wild beasts of Ephesus. | preach to
encourage them. Lay hold of God and
be faithful
THE PRRILS OF SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
There is a mistake we make about
young men. We put them in two
classes-the one class is moral, the
other is dissolute The moral are safe.
The dissolute cannot be reclaimed.
deny both propositions. The moral
are not safe unless they have laid hold
of God, and the dissoiute may be re-
claimed. suppose there are self
righteous men in this house who feel nc
need of God, and Will not seek after
him, and they will go out. in the
world and they will be tempted, and