The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-14

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Ssriza In Of the serpent that Z Lad
crawl; it cTaw.ed before II was c~lsel
1usG a well as 1t era wled stter"arIi you
can tell from lite organ zalon that IL
crawled. Then. all that story about tne
whale swallowilg Jonah, or nan s"ai-
loving the whale. winch was nv IL don
make any differenc, the thing IS aOe ~ :
it is ridiculous TO suppose ina MA
couii have gOae do Al thr ugh toe as Il
a sea NOUS or and yet xept his lie; why,
his respiration " uld oave been hiHdsrel'
he would have been diges ed; the gastric
mice would have dissolved tue horine ana
EVACUATED aibumen, and Jonah would have
been changed from phrOphet into Gayle
Then all that story about the miraculous
conception-why, it is perfectly disgra .
full OF sir, believe in the light OF nat
ure This is the nineteenth csnsur ,yt
Progress, sir progress uout
blame you. but after you have oeeh
in town as long as l have, you Will think
just as do"
Thousands Of young men are going down
under that process day by day aud there Is
only here and there young man VINO can
endure this artillery Of scorn. lheJ are
giving up their Bibles Inc llgnt OF n "a.
Thev have the light of nature IN Chlha;
they have it in Hindostah; they have 1t In
CayIon. Flowers there, stars there, waters
there. winds there: out no CIVILIZATION, no
homes no happiness Lancets to cut. aud
ingzeruauts to fall under and hooks to
swi on; but no happiness. tell you, my
Young brother. we have to take religion
Of some kind. We have 20 choose between
four or FIVE Shall il be the Koran OF the
Mobamme1an, or the Shsster Of the Hin
doc. or the Zendavesta of The Persian, or
the Confuciu, writings of the Chinese. or
the holy scripturesi Take what you will;
God bel pi z me. ] will take the Bible.
Light for all darkness; rock for all founda-
ton: balm for all wounds. A glory that
lifts its pillars Of fire over the wilderness
march. Do not give no your Bibles. II these
these people soof at you as though religion
and the Bible were fit only for weak-minded
people, you just tell them you are not
ashamed to lie 10 the company Of Burke the
statesman, aud Rap ael the painter, and
Thorwaldsen the sculptor, and Mozart the
musician, and Blackstone he lawyer, and
Bacon the phil isopher, aud Harvey the
physician, and John Milton the poet. Ask
them what infideIity has ever done to
lift the fourteen hundred millions OF the
race out of barbarism. Ask them when
inf]delity ever instituted q sanitary oJm-
mission; and before you leave their soci ty
once and forever, tell them they have in
suited the memory of your Christian
father, and spit upon the deathbed of your
mother, and with swine's snout rooted up
the grave of your sister. who died believing
in the Lord Jesus.
Young man, hold on to your Bible. Il is
the best book you ever owned. 1t will tell
you how to dress, how 30 bargain, how TO
walk, how TO act, how to live, how to die.
Glorious Biblel whether on parchment or
paper, ia octave or duodeciIno on tue GEN.
ter table of the drawing room, or the
counting room Of the banker. Glorious
Bibiel Light to our feet and lamp to our
path. Hold on TO i'll
The second class of insdious temptations
that comes upon our young men is led on
BY the dishonest employer. Every CON-
mercial establishment is a school, in nine
cases out OF ten. the principles OF the en-
ployer beco Q the principles Of the en-
ploye. ask the older me chants to bear
me out in these statements. If, when you
were just starting in life. in commercial
life. you were told that honesty was not
marketable, that though you might sell all
the goods in the shop, You must not sell
your conscience, that while YOU were TO
exercise ali industry and tact. you were not
TO sell your conscieuce-lf You were taught
that gains gotten by stu were combustible,
aud at the moment of ignition woul be
blown on by the breath of God until all the
sple did estate would vanish into white
ashes scattered in the whirlwind-then that
instruction has been to you a preoaution
cial establishments il our great cities which
are educating a class of young men who
will be the b nor of the land, and there are
other establishments which are educating
young men to be nothing but sharpers
What chance is there for young man who
was taught In an establishmeng that 1t is
right to lie, if it is smart. and that French
label Is all that is necessary to make things
Ere ch, and that you ought always to be
honest when it pays, and that it is wrong
TO steal unless you do it well7
Suppose, now, young man just
starting In life enters a plaee of that kind
where there are ten young men, all drilled
In the infamous pra 'tices of the establish
meDk He is ready TO be taught. The
young man has no theory of CO mercial
ethics Where is he to get his theory7 He
viii get the theory from his employers
One day be pushes his wit q little beyond
what the establishment demands of him,
and be feeces a customer until the clerk is
on the verge of being seized by the law.
What is done in the establishment He is
not arraigned. The head Of the establish
ment says to him: "Now. be careful; be
careful. young man, you might be
caught; but really that was spleud-
in the world, 1 warrant YOU Then
that young man goes up until he becomes
head clerk. He has found there is prem
ium 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 robbedln What is
the mat er? Nothing, nothing: only the
clerk who has been practicing a good while
on customers Is practicing a little on the
employer No new principle introduced
into that establishment. 1t is a poor rule
that will not work both ways You must
never steal unless you can do it well. He
did 1t well. / am not talking an abstrac-
ton; am talking a terrible and crushing
fact
Now here Is young man. Look at him
to-day. Look at him five years from now.
after he has been under trial in such an
establishment. Here he stands in the shop
to-day, his cheeks rudy with the breath of
the hills. He uurolls the goods or the coun-
Ter in gentlemanly style. lie commends
them to the purchaser. He points out ell
the good points in the fabric. He effects the
sale. The goods are wrapped up, and he
dism sses the customer with cheerful ''good
morning, and the country merchant departs
so impressed with the straightforward ess
OF that young man that he will come again
and again, every spring aid every 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 these are
the best goods se have In our establish
ment;" they have better on the next shelf.
He says 1--WE are selling these goods less
than cost" they are making twenty per
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