Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-14

can Tell from lJS organization that IL
crawled. Then all that story about the
whale swallowing Jonah, or Jonah swal-
lowing the whale, which was t2 1t don't
make any difference the thing is absurd;
1t is ridiculous TO suppose that man could
| have gone down through the jaws of a sea
monster and yet kept bis life; why, his
respiration would have been hindered; he
would have been digested; the gastric
/ Juice would have dissolved the dbrine and
coagulated albumen, and Jonah would
have been changed from prophet into
chyle. Then all that story about the mi
raculous conception-why, it is perfectly
| disgraceful. Oh sirl believe ia the light
Of nature. This is the Nineteenth century.
| Progress, sir; progress. | don't blame
you, but after you have been in town ms
long rs hay you will think just as do. "
RELIGION NECESSARY.
Thousands Of young men are going down
under that process day by day, and there
is ouly here and there Il young man who
can endure this artillery of scorn They
are giving up their Bibles. The light Of
| naturel The" have the light of nature in
/ China; they have it in Hindostan; they
have is in Ceylon, Flowers there, stars
there, waters there, winds there, but no
civilization, no homes, no happiness. Ian
Gets to cut and iuggernauts to fall under
and hooks to swing on, but no happiness.
! tell you, my young brother, we have to
take a religion of some kind. We have ~
choose between four or five Shall it be
the Koran Of the Mohammedan, or the
Shastcr of the Hindoo, or the Zendavest"
Of the Persian, or the Confucius writings
of the Chinese, or the Holy Scriptures?
Take what you will; God helping me, j
will take the Bible, Light for all dark
ness; rock for all foundation; balm for all
wounds A glory that lifts its pillars Of
fire over the wilderness march. Do not
give up your Bibles.
Ask them what infdelity has ever done
to lift the fourteen hundred millions of the
race out OF barbarism. Ask them when
inhdelity ever instituted a sanitary com
mission, and before you leave their society
once ana forever tell them that they have
insulted 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 believ
ing IN the Lord Jesus.
If these people scott at you us 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
Burke the statesman, and Raphael the
painter, and ThOrwaldsen the sculptor,
and Mozart the musician, and Blackstone
the lawyer, and Bacon the philosopher,
and Harvey She physician, and John Mil
ton the poet.
HOLD ON TO TIE BIBLE.
Young man. hold on to your Bible It
is the bes6 book you ever owned. 1t will
tell you how to dress, how to bargain, how
to walk, how to act, how to live, how TO
die. Glorious Biblel Whethec on parch-
ment or paper, in octave or duodecimo, on
the center table Of the drawing loom or in
the counting room of the banker. Glorious
Bibel Light to our feet and lamp to our
path. Hold on to it'll
The second class of insidious ten ptatiOns
that comes upon our young men is led on
by the dishonest employer. Every com
mercial establishment is n school In nine
cases out of ten the principles of the en-
ploycr become the principles of the EN-.
ployee. ! ask the older merchants to bear
me ont in these statements IT, when YOU
were just startingin life-in commercial life
you were told that honesty was not mar
ketable; thu > though you might sell al!
the goods in the shop, you must pot sell
your conscience, that, while you were T.
exercise all industry and tact, you were not
to sell your conscience; if you were taught
that gains gotten by sin were combustiblG,
and at the moment of ignition would he
blown on by the breath of God until all
the splendid estate would vanish into
white ashes scattered in the whirlwind,
then that instruction has been to you a
precaution aud help ever since.
There are hundreds of commercial estaJ-
lishments in our great cities which are
educating a class of young men who will
be the honor Of the land, and there are
other establishments which are educating
young men to be nothing but sharpers.
What chance is there for a young man
who was taught in an establishment that
il is right to lie, if it is smart, and that a
French labe' is all that is necessary to
make a thin" French, and that you ought
always to be honest when it pays, and that
it is wrong TO steal unless you do it well!
Suppose, pow, "A young man just starting
in life enters a place of that kind where
there are ten young men, all drilled in the
Infamous practices of the 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 wit little beyond what the es-
adjustment demands of him, and he fleeces
customer until the clerk il on the verge Of
being seized by the law What is done in
the establishment? He is not arraigned
The head of the establishment says to him,
"Now, be careful; be careful, young man,
you might be caught; but really that was
Vplendidly done; you will get along in the
world, ] warrant you" Then that you. (
man goes up until he becomes head clerk.
He has found there is IA premium on in.
Equity,
One morning the employer comes to the
establishments lie goes into his counting
room and throws up his hands and shouts,
"Why, the safe has been robbedp What
is the matterY Nothing nothing; only
the clerk who has been practicing good
while on customers is practicing little on
the employer. No new principle intro
duced into that establishment. 1t is IA
poor rule that will not work both ways
You must never steal unless you can do it
well. lie did it well. ! am not talking
an ahstractol; am talking IA terrible and
a crushing fact,
HERES AN EXAMPLE.
Now here i young man. Look at him
today. Look at him five years from now
after he has been under trial in such an
establishments Here he stands in the
shop today, his cheeks ruddy 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.
Hoefrects the sale, The goods are wrapped
up, and he dismisses the customer with a
cheerful good morning" and the country