The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-14
YOUNG MAN IN BUSINESS.
AN ADDRESS TO HIM by A NOTABLE
CLERGYMAN.
Some Rules of Life - Practical Sug-
gestions - The Final
Dependence.

gestions - The Final
Dependence.
1.-THE Very Rev. p. W, Farrar. d. D., in the
New York Independently
While it is the surest rule for success
that a ouih should make himself indis.
pensable, he may be sure that, in nine
cases out of ten, in promoting the inter.
ests OF his employer, he is promoting
his own. In the work of clerkdom,
which Is a very crowded world. our
young Englishmen often murmur that
in many great regions of commerce.
they are being ousted by German
clerks. But why is this? The best things
go to those who are best prepared for
them. A very wealthy man of high
station, and member of Parliament,
told me that if he advertised for clerk
who knew enough of modern languages
to conduct a wide business correspond
ence, he could over and over again find
German youths. They had come to
"E ssfR eng ysa WpHe ey !" we're we're
content with modest salaries, could
often speak and write three or four
languages, whereas the English candi-
dates rarely knew anything hut Eng
lish. Naturally. he was obliged to en-.
gage those whose knowledge made them
most serviceable.
He also mentioned remarkable trait
of difference between his German and
his English clerks. When six O'Clock
came, and the business hours were
over, every English clerk would jump
up from his seat the moment the clock
struck, shut his books with a bang,
hurry them ihto liis desk, and be off In
a moment to his gymnasium and his
bicy Gle. The German clerks would, in
the interests of their employer and his
business, quietly wait till they had
finished the particular matter on which
they were occupied. All our sympathies
may be with the English lads, but the
others would be more likely to get pro.
noted, and to earn higher salaries.
The rise of this gentleman himself
from the humblest of poor and humble
he mes to be county member and the
head of great industry, was due en-
tirely to energetic promptness. A cargo
had been consigned to dubious for.
eign company. There might yet be time
to prevent its being handed over, If
some one would take the journey of five
or six hundred miles. The employers
su mmoned their confidential clerks, and
asked them whether they would under.
take this difficult matter, and when
they would start. Some of them said
they would try, and would be ready to
start the next day. This young man
said, 81 am ready now, / will start at
once" The firm Mt once intrusted the
saa l.. II Al.
travelled night and day without stop.
ping to sleep or even to change his
clothes; arrived just in time; prevented
the unpacking of the cargo, and saved
his employers thousands of pounds. So
great was the service which he had
rendered, that on his return, he was
promoted to the position of Junior
partner. He had become the chief act
ing partner before he attained to mid.
nile life, and is now man of rank and
Importance. "Seest thou the man dill.
gent in his business? he shall stand BE-
fore kings, he shall not stand before
mean men,"
But the young man in business, il he
is living a much more ideal life than
that which keeps a too exclusive eye on
the main chance; il, in the demands of
business, he does not forget the loftier
and more eternal claims of a noble hu-
uihn Ire. must cultivaye ai5o "a certutH
courage and independence Of maaly
rectitude. Whatever may be his bust
ness, he will be thrown among others of
his own age; and it is one of his highest
duties, not only to abstain from setting a
bad and dangerous example, but also to
escape the average, and to maintain a
high standard before all men. And
10 hnr tha ,f he
ness which is afraid to say "No,"I
makes so many young menfails. When
Benjamin Franklin was a youth in a
printing office, the other lads went out
to bring in for lunch their foaming tan
kards of beer or porter. Franklin was
then total abstainer from conviction,
which was very rare in those days. His
comrades laughed at him, and jeered
him to their hearts content, as a milk
sop and fool; but he held his own with
unwavering good humor. All those
other printers lads died in humble OBJ.
security, but Franklin rose to greatness
and immortality.
"EriPnit eoelo fnlmen, sceptrnmque
tyrdnnis."
In the courageous stedfastness OF his
boyish character, we see one of the
secrets of his future eminence.
The quality is needed wherever men,
and, above all, wherever young men are
gathered together. II is needed in the
army, both among officers and privates.
Cromwell's Ironsides went to battle each
with Bible in his knapssck, and were
sneered at as snuiiling and hypocritical
"saints"-strange that the word descrip-
tive of the grandest of human charac-
tiers should be regarded by the coarsely
vulgar as the bitterest of sneers But
they made the Cavalier chivalry skip.
Nelson's "Methodis.s" were the most
trusted OF his crews. Havelock's saints"
saved India. Once in Burma, when
nearly every other soldier was drunk,
and the enemy threatened most dan
gerous surprise, the general was in great
GERS said to him, "Seni for Havelock's
'Saints;' his men are never drunk, and
Havelock is always ready" But I'M
doubleday such faithfuness of high prin-
ciple costs something, especially at first.
A youth in my parish enlisted. He was
a total abstainer, and splendid young
fellow. He rapidly rose to be ser
geant. The soldiers who had laughed at
his teetotalism determined to play him
trick. 1t was a cavalry regiment, and
they had to ride some distance, taking
their rations with them. They took his
flask, which he had filled with water,
and filled it with brandy. He knew
nothing of it, and, when they halted for
the midday niaal, they watched him.
Taking his flask, he found it full of
brandy, and Immediately, while every
eye was fixed upon him, he turned the
flask upside down, and poured all the
brandy on the gra.s.
A young officer In India found himself
serving among very goddess comrades,
amid the fierce passions which were kim
died during the suppression of Il Q In
dian Mutiny. He thought that we were
acting mercilessly and unjustly, and he
demonstrated. He was severely per.
secuted. what am to dor he asked
of General Outram, the Bayard of India
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