The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-26
AN OK IN THE DITCH.
Sam Jones Outlines a Plan for Gctt,l
Him out.


manty could not be much buster get
ting oxen out OF the ditch. In my perc.
CARNATIONS throughout the country
and so many tired rien-tircd in mind
tired in body, and tired in soul. With
these find idle men who are tired of
doing nothing. believe we might kill
two birds with one stone If there were
not SO many oxen in the ditch.
was in baltimore, Nd, the other day
riding up the street with friend.
saw an odd name placarded over door
simply Gould" l said; That's q
peculiar name"
He replied: 1T is the name of q sue
cessful business man."
asked: What does he do?"
lilo makes ice cream and cake" he
replied. HE has been doing business
here for perhaps so years. He has grown
immensely rich. He makes the best
ice cream and the best cake in all the
land. And another peculiar thing" he
'aid, che never furnished anybody either
cake or ice cream on the Sabbath No
orders are flied from his place OF bust
ness after II O'Clock Saturday night un-
Ill Monday morning"
And / asked: you say he has grown
rich?"
"Yes," the gentleman said. "Hc began
n poor man and is now orc of orr
wculthicst citizens. He made n good
cake and good ice cream, and laborcd
six days week and outstripped all his
competitors who labored seven DAYS
week"
His put me TO thinking on subject
that l would like to see the world re-
formed on. One of the Ten Command
ncnts reads: Remember the Sabbath 10
keep it holy. Thou. nor thy man.
servants, thy mnidscivants, thine OK
nor thine ass neither shall labor on the
Sabbath. Sunday trains and Sunday
druggists, Sunday soda water, SUNDAY
dry goods merchants, Sunday ice cream
and cake manufacturers; and | have
seen in the state of Missouri farmers
running their harvesting machines on
the Sabbath. / don't believe that a
man can stcnl march on Providence.
do believe that the best things n man
ever did for himself or his family or
his business are the things he does in
side the boundary lines of human and
Divine law. 1t has been demonstrated
that a man can do more work in six
days than he can III seven. Then WHY
cannot this be true in an aggregation
of men? j honestly believe that rail-
roads can haul more passengers and
move moro freight in six DAYS than
they can in seven. God knew when He
wrote the Ten Commandments on the
tablets of stone on Sinai's top that it
would be a struggle for existence and
n battle for bread with the human race.
and the great God who knows all things
and who ndviscs always TO the best.
says: Six days shalt thou labor. One
day shalt th:u rest. The tired i.lilrond
men, the tired clerks, the tired Office
man, the tired laborng men, when we
look upon their constant, everlasting.
labors we feel sorry for
them.
We can adjust ourselves to six DAYS
Of labor and one day of rest, and the
world will be better and happier there
by. Gods law will be honored and man
will be benefited. / have been mn
preached by wives and mothers md
asked to say something to employers
Oh this subject. A railroad TINT cam.
make its dividends and do it's worl,
six days week either deserves n cbonrc
Of management or ought to- 20 pcr-
into the hands of a receiver
A man who can't make n living Inv s;x
lays of honest toll n week ought to bc
cared for by public charity or arrested
As vagrant. If Gods own hand guides
md His eye ovcrlooks this world mi
al infraction of law brings His dis.
pleasure, in this way cnn account ,o.
railroad wrecks, commercial disasters
md financial ruins. We have Watched
md waited for three wears for bcttcr
lines and upward tendencies. but orr
and waiting have not nvo;,c1 |
is anything 1t is largely true. ms Dr
'arkhurst said some time ago. n crow1
ias no conscience: md lust as mon
and human beings congrc~otn