Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-12-25

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nauts to fall under and hooks TO swing on
but no happiness
tell you, my young brother We have t.
take a religion of some kind. We have q
choose between four and five. Shall IL b,
the Koran OF the Mohammedan, or the Shas
ter of the Hndoo or the Zendavesta Of th'
| Persian, or the Confucius writings of tn,
Chinese. or the Holy Scriptures Take what
you will: God helping me, | will take tbs
Bible. Light for all darkness; rock for al
| foundation, balm for all wounds A glory
that lifts its pillars Of fire over the wilder.
ness march. Do not give up your Bibles.
/ Ask them what infidelity has ever done &c
| lift the fourteen hundred millions OF the race
out of barbarlsm. Ask them when infidelity
ever instituted a sanitary commission, and
before you leave their society once and for
ever tell them that they have insulte1 the
memory OF your Christian father, and SOFT
upon the deathOed of your mother and with
the swine's snont rootet up the grave OF your
sister. who died believing In the Lord Jesus.
IL these people scoff at you as though re.
| ligion and the Bible were fit only for weak.
minded people, you just tell them you are
| not ashamed to be in the company OF BurSe,
| the statesman, and Raphael, the painter.
and Thorwadseu, the SCULPTOR, and Mozart,
| the musician. and Blackstone, the lawyer,
aud Bacon, the philosopher, and Harvey,
the physician, AMI John Milton, the poet
Young man, hold ON TO your Bible 1t is
| the best book you ever owned. 1t will tell
| you how TO dress, how to bargain, how To
walk how to act, how 10 live, how to die.
| Glorious Bibiei Whether on parchment or
paper, in octave or duo1ecimo, on the center
| table OF the drawing room or in the counting
| room of the banker Glorious Biolel Light
to our feet and lamp to our path. Hold on
! toiti
The second class of insidious temptations
that come upon our young men is lei on
by the dishonest employer. Every com
mercial establishment is a school. In niue
cases out of ten the principles of the en-
poyer becomes the principles OF the EN-
poyee. 1 ask the Older merchants TO bear
me out in these statements. If, when you
were just starting in life-iu commercial life
you were told that honesty was not mar
ketable; that, though you might sell all
the goods in the shop you must not sell
your conscience; that, while yol were TO eX-
ercise all industry and tact, you were not 10
sell your conscience: if you were taught that
gains gotten by sin were combusibie, ani at
the moment OF ignition would be blown on
by the breath of God until all the splendid
estate would vanish into white ashes scat
tered in the whirlwnd, then tlat instruct on
has been 10 you precaution nd help ever
since.
There are hundreds OF commercial estab-
lishments in our great cities winch are elu.
eating class of young men who viii be the
honor OF the land, and there are other estab-
ishments which are educating young men
to be nothing but sharperS. What chance is
there for young man who was taught in
an establishment that 1t IS right to lie, il it is
smart and that French label is all that is
necessary to make thing French, anl that
you ought always to be honest when it pays,
and that it is wrong to steal unless you do 1t
well?
Suppose, now, young man just st.rting
in life enters place OF that Kind Where
there are ten young men, all drilled in the
infamous practices fthe establishment. He
is ready to be taught. The young man has
no theory Of commercial ethics. Where is
he to get his theory He will get the theory
from his employers. One day he pushes his
wits little beyond what the establishment
demands OF him. and he ieeces d customer
until the clerk is on the verge or being
| seiz..i by the law. What is done in the es-
eablishments lie is not arraigned. The
head of the establishment says to hun, Nov,
be careful; be careful, young man, you
! might be caught, but really that was splen-
! didly done; you will get along in the world,
! | warrant YOU" Then that young man
goes up ultil he becomes head clerk. He
| has found there Is premium on iniquity
One morning the employer comes to the
] Lie EOCo lAAV MS counting
room AMI throws up his hands and shouts
"Why, the safe has been robbedp What is
the matter2 Nothing. nothing; only the
clerk who has been practcns a good while
! on customers Is practicin- a little on the
employer. No new principe 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 II
well. lam not talking an abstraction; am
! Ill. ., IL tufV nt
Now here is a young man. Look at him
to-day. Lool at him five years from now,
after he has been under trial in such al
establishment Here he stands in the shop
to-day, his cheeks ruidy With the breath OF
the hills. He unrolls the goods on the coun
ter in gentlemanly style. He commend
them to the purchaser. He points out all th
good points in the fabric. He effects th
sac. The goods are wrapped up, and h
dlsmisses the customer with a Cheerful
good morning. and the country merchan
departs so impressed with the straighttor
wardness of the young man that he vii
come again and again, every spring anC
every autumn, unless interfere1 with.
The young man has been now in that es
tablishment five years. He unrols the good
on the counter. He says to the customer
"Now these are the best goods we have i
our establishment" They have better o
the next shelf. He says, I'VE are selin
these goods less than cost" They are mak
ing twenty per cent. He says There
nothing like them in all the ty." Ther
are fifty shops that want to sell the sam
thing. He says, Now, that is durab
article; it will wash" Yes it will wash Out
The sale is made, the goods are wrappe
up, the country merchant goes Off feelin
that he has an equivalent for mis- money, an
the sharp clerk goes into the private room {
the counting house, AMI he says. "Well,
got rid OF those goods at last. l real
thought we never woul sell them. | to
him we were selling them less than cost, an
he thought he was getting goo bargain
Got rii of them at last" And the head {
the nrm says: That's we'll done, solendid
donep' Meanwhile God had recorded eigI
les-four lies against the young man, lol
lies against his employer, for undertake
say that the employer is responsible Tor q
the iniquities of his CLERKS, and all the IL
uuities OF those VINO are clerks OF the
clerks, down to the tenth generation, If tho
employers iuculcated iniquitous and dam
ing principles.
stand before young men this mornir
who are under this pressure. say, con
out of it. "Ohr you say, II can't; | ha'
my widowed mother to support and II mi
loses situation now he can't get anoth
one" say, come out of it. Go home
your mother and say to her, "Mother
can't stay in that shop and be uprignt; wn
shall dol" and il she is worthy OF you S
will say, "Come out of it, my son-we "
lust throw ourselves on Him who hath pro
ised TO be the God OF the widow and
fatherless, He will take care OF us" An
tell you no young man ever permanen
suffered by such course OF con uct.
In Philadelphia, in a drug shop, you
; man said to his employer, 81 wait to pie
you, really, and | am Wiling to {
! medicines on Sunday, but can't sell t
> patent shoe backing on sunday" "WeI
J. said the head man, you will have 10 do
! or else you will have to go away"
. young man said, VI can't do It; an wiill wiiill
: "W.ll, then, gol Go now." The yot
i man went away. The Lord looked al
y him. The hundreds OF thousands OF doll
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