The Penn's Grove record., 1899-08-18

lnIcllecIlHl ana IEilBiOuS improvements
what q efficient state OF things we would
have in this country and they would have
In Great Britain!
Do you not realize the fact that men
work better without stimulant2 You say.
Twill you deny the labofing men this help
which they get from strong drink, borne
down as they are with many anxteties and
exhausting work." ! would deny them
nothing that is good for them. | would
deny them strong drink. ii had the power.
because 1t is damaging to them. Myfather
said: 81 became n temperance man in
early life because l found that in the
harvest field, while l was naturally weaker
than the other men, / could hold out longer
than any of them. They took stimulnnt
and l took none"
Everybody knows they cannot endure
great ~futigue-men who indulge In stlmu-
lants. All our young men understand
that. When they are preparing for the re-
gatta, or the bail club, or the athletic
wrestling, they abstain from strong drink.
Now, suppose all this money that is
wasted were gathered together and put in
to cooperative institutions. o., we
would have Il very different state Of things
from what we have now.
l remark again, the laboring classes of
this country are to find great relief when
they learn, all OF them learn, forecast and
providence. Vast nulpbers OF them put
down their income aud they put down
their expenses, and ii the income meets
the expenses that is all that is necessary.
l know laboring men who are In a perfect
fdget until they have spent their last dol
lar. They fly around everywhere until
they get it spent. A case came under my
observation where young man WINS
receiving 800 II year and earned 1t
by very hard work. The marriage day
came. The bzlde had received $500 as an
Inheritance from her grandfather. She
put the $500 in wedding equipment. Then
the twain hired two rooms on the third
story. Then this man, who had most ar
duous employment, just as much as he
could possibly endure, got evening en-
ployment so he could earn II few dollars
more and by this extra evening employ
ment almost extinguished his eyesight.
Why did he take this extra evening en-
ployment2 Was 1t to lay by something for
a rainy day? No! Was 1t to get a life in
surance so that II he should die his W 70
would not be n pauper2 Mol 1t was for
the one purpos e Of getting his wife a $3.50
sealskin sacque. [ am Just giving you n
fact l know. The sister Of this woman, al
though she is n very poor girl, was not to
be eclipsed, and 80 she went to work day
and night md toiled and tolled and toiled
almost into the grave until she got a $50
sealskin sacquel Well, the news went
abroad all through the street. Most ofthe
people on that street were laboring, hard
working people, and they were not to be
outshone in this way, and they all went to
work in the same direction and practically
said, though not literally; Though the
heavens fall, we must have a sealskin
acquel'
A clergyman in Iowa told me that his
church and the entire neighborhood had
been ruined by the fact that the people
m~ortgaged their farms In order to go down
to the Philadelphia Centennial ia 1876.
First, ono family would go, then another
family, and finally it was not respectable
not to go to the Centennial at Philadel-
phia, and they mortgHged their farms. Tho
church and the neighborhood ruined in
that way. Now, between such fools and
pauperism there is only a very short step.
In time OF peace prepare for war. In time
OF prosperity prepare for adversely. Yet
how many there are who drive on the
verge of the preciplce, and at the least
touch of accident or sickness over they go.
All, my friends, it ia not right, it is not
honestl He that provideth not for his own,
and especially those of his own household,
Is worse that an indie A man has no
Fight To live in luxury ard have all com
forts and all brightness AROUND him, tax
ing his family with him at that rate
everything bright and beautiful and lux
urious until he stumbles against a tomb
stone and falls in, and they all go to the
~poorhouse. That is not common honesty.
| am no advocate of skinlilnt saving. I
aphor it. But l plead Cor Christian provt-
dence.
Some OF the older persons remember
very well Abraham Van Nest, of New York,
one OF its Christian merchants. He was
often called mean because he calculated
so closely. Why did he calculate closely?
That he might have the more to give.
There was not a Bible society or n tract
society or n reformntOry Institution in the
city OF New York but he had his ham in sap
porting it. He donied himself many luxu-
rfes that he might give to others the neces-
stiles. He has been many years reaping
his reward in heaven, but | shall never
forget the day when l, n green country
lad, came to his house and spent the even
ing, and at the close of tho evening, as l
was departing, he accompanied me to the
door, accompanied me to the steps, came
down off the steps and sail: Here, De
witt, Is $40 for books. Don't say any
thing about it," 1t IS mean or it is mag
~nilcent to save, according as you save for
II good or bad object.
| know there are many p'opie WIG have
much to say against savings banks and
life assurances. | hnyc to tell you that the
vast majority of the homcsteHds in this
country have been the result OF such lnsti-
t~utions, and | have to tell you also that
the vast majority Of homesteads OF the fu-
ture for the laboring classes will be the re-
suit of such Institutions. 1t will be a great
day for the working classes OF England
and the United States when the working
man can buy u barrel Of -four instead of
flour by the small sack; when he can buy
a barrel OF sugar instead Of sugar by tho
pound; when he can pay cash for coats
and hats and shoes rather than pay an i'd
ditional amonnt for the reason that lie has
to get it all charged.
/ know n gentleman very well who has
over 1000 hands ia his employ. | said to
him some years ago when there was great
trouble in the labor market, "How are you
II have no troubled" "Whv," l said, "haye
not YOU had any strikes?' ooh, mol" he
said. II never had any trouble What
plan do YOU pursue?" lie said: II will tell
you. All my men know every year just
how matters stand. Every little while l
call them together and say: Now, boys,
last year l made so much. This year l
made less. SO you see l cannot pay you as
much us l did last year. Now, l want to
know what you think | ought to have as
a percentage out OF this establishment
and what wages | ought to give you. You
know I put all my energy in this business,
put all my fortune in it and risked every
thing. What do you really think l ought
to have and you ought to haveI' By the
time we come out OF that consultation we
are unanimous. There has never been an
exception. When we prosper we Will pros
per together. When we suffer, we all suffer
together, and my men would diO for me-"
Now, let all employers be frank with their
employees. Take them into your eonH-
dence. Let them know just how matters
stand. There is an immense amount OF
common sense in the world. 1t is always
safe to appeal to it.
HER HAND GUIDED BY PRAYER.