The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-23

respiration would have been hindered
ne would have been d!gested; the gas.
.ric Juice would have dissolved the Il
brine and coagulates alounen. anG
Jopsh you'd have been changed from
prophet ITO chyle. Then al that story
about the miraculous conception-why,
It is perfectly disgracetul. Oh, sir! ! be.
lieve IL the light of nature. This is the
Nineteenth century. Progress, sir; pro.
sress. l don't blame you, but after you
rave beer in town as lougas have you
will think Just as l do"
THOUSANDS of young men are going
down under that process day by day,
and there Is only here and there young
msn who can endure this artillery ot
scorp. They are giving up their Bibles.
The light OF nature! They have the
light oi nature in China; they have !: IN
HlnGostan; they Lave it in Ceylon.
Flowers there. stars there. waters there,
wlrds there. but no civilization, no
hemcs. 40 happiness. LaDcets to cut and
iusserrsuts 10 fail under and hooks to
swing on, but no happiness
I tell you, my young brother, We have
20 take a Eeilgion OF some kind. We
have % choose between feur or FIVE.
Shall it be the KoraR Of the Mohamme-
dan, or the Shsster Of the Hlndoo, or
ihe Zaudaycsta OF the Persian. or the
Conjucius writings CT the Chinese, or the
Holy Scriptures: Take what you will;
God helping me. I will take the Bible.
L;cht Tor all darkness: rock for all toun-
da,ion; balm Tor all wounds. A glory
thst hts its plliares OF tire ever the VIII
derness march. Do not give up your
Bibles
Asl, them what in6delity mas ever
done 70 lift the fourteen hundred millions
OF the race cut Of Barbarissa. Ask them
when ,niidelity eye- instituted a sanitary
commission, and before you leare their
society once and forever tell them that
taev bare insultei the memory OF your
Chrlst;.n father, and spit upon the death
bed of your mother and with swlne's
snout rooted up tie grave oFyour sister,
who died believing in the Lord Jesus.
l. these people scof at you as though
religiou and the Bible were fit only for
weakninded people, you just tell them
YOU are not ashamed to be in the COM
pany OF Burke the stateman. azd Ra-
phael the painter, andssThorwaldsen the
sculptor, and Mozart the musician, and
Blackstone the lawyer, and Bacon the
philosopher, and Harvey the physician,
and John Milton the poel.
Young man. hold on to your Bible.
1t is the best book you ever owed. Ii
win tell you how to bargain, how to
act. how to live. how to die, how to dress.
how to walk. Glorious Bible! Whether On
parchment or paper, in octave or duo
decimo, on the center table OF the
drawing room or in the counting room
of the banker. Glorious Bibie! Light
to cur feet and lamp to our path.
Hold on to it!
The second class Of lnsidious tempta-
tiens that comes upon our young men IS
led on by the dishonest employer. Every
commercial establishment is school.
In nine cases out of ten the priaclples OF
the employer become the principles OF
the employees. I ask the older merchants
to bear me out in these statements. II,
when -ou were just starting IN nte-in
commercial life-you were told that hon
estv 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 all industry
and tact, you were not TO sell your con
science; il you were taught that gains
gotten b7 sin were combust;ble, and at
tie moment of ignition would be blown
on br the breath of God until all the
splendid estate would vanish into white
ashes scattered in the whirlwlnd, then
that instruction has been to you a precau-
ton and help ever since.
There are hundreds Of commercial
establishments in our great cities which
are educating class of young men who
will be the honor Of the land. and there
are other establishments which are edu-
eating young men to be nothing but
sharpers. What chance IS there to- a
Young man who was taught in al esta-
blishnent that it is right to lie, if 1t is
smart, and that French label IS all
that is necessary to make a thing French,
aad that you ought always to be honest
when it pays, and that it's "orng to
steal unless you do 1t well?
Suppose, now. young man lust
starting in life enters place OF that kind
where there are ten Soung men, all
drilled i9 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? BE will get the theory
from his employers. One day he pushes
his wits little beyond what the establish
ment demands of him, snd he ieeces a
customer until the clerk is on the verge
oi heipg seized 10y the law. What Is
done in the establishment? He is no:
arsaiene6. The head OF the establish
ment says to him, Now, be careful; be
careful, young nau, Eo@ A4iSH. ~
caught; bUt really that was splencldly
doi.s; you will get along in the world,
warrant YOU" Then that youDg man
gees up until lie becomes head clerk,
He has found there is premiua on in-
EQUITY.
Oee morning the employer comes tc
the establishments. He goes into his
counting room and throws up his hands
and shouts. "Why, the safe has been
robbe3!'' Wha; is the ruattsr? Moth.
ing nothing; only the clerk who has been
practicing govd while on customers is
p-acticing little on the employer. Nc
new principle introduced into that esta.
blishmenu. tt a poor rale that will
not work both ways. Yeu must never
steal ualess you can do It well. he die
it well. I am not talking ga abstrac'
tion; an talking terrible and a crush
ing fact.
! stand before young men this morn
ing who are snder this pressure. | say
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