The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

WHa1 are you gong TO 90, ffeQI
81 don't know yet. l have thought
some of going to Chicago or some large
city"
"Why don't you try The News2"
"They are all supplied. I have not
thought of applying there"
Henry Maxwell thought a moment.
"Come down to The News office with
me and let us see Norman about it."
So a few minutes later Edward Nor
man received into his room the minister
and young Morris, and Henry Maxwell
briefly told the cause of their errand.
81 can give you a place on The
News, said Edward Norman, with his
keen look softened by a smile that made
it winsome. 81 want reporters who
won't work Sundays. And, what is
more, l am making plans for a special
kind of reporting which 1 believe young
Morris here can develop because he is
in sympathy with what Jesus would
do"
He assigned Morris a definite task,
and Henry Maxwell started back to his
study feeling that kind of satisfaction
and it is a very deep kind-which a
man feels when he has been even partly
instrumental in finding an unemployed
person a situation.
He had intended TO go back to his
study, but on his way home he passed
by of Milton Wright's stores. He
thought he would simply step in and
shake hands With his parishioner and
bid him godspeed in what he had heard
he was doing to put Christ into his
business, but when he went into the
office Milton Wright insisted on detain-
ing him to talk over some of his new
plans. Henry Maxwell asked himself if
this was the Milton Wright he used to
know. eminently practical, business
like. according to the regular code of
the business world, and viewing every
thing first and foremost from the stand
point Of "Will it pay?'
"There is no use to disguise the fact,
Mr.. Maxwell, that l have been com
PEELED to revolutionize the whole method
OF my business since l made that prom
tse. / have been doing a great many
things during the last 20 years in this
store that l know Jesus would not do,
but that is a small item compared with
the number of things begin to believe
Jesus would do. My sins of commission
nave not been rs ulaly DIS Cnose OF omis-
sion in business relations"
"What was the first change you
nader" asked Henry Maxwell. He felt
as if his sermon could wait for him in
his study. AS the interview with Mil
ton Wright continued he was not SO
sure but he had found material for a
sermon without going back to. his study
81 think the first change l had to
make was in my thought of my m
ployees. l came down here Monday
morning after that Sunday and asked
myself what would Jesus do in his
relation to these clerks, bookkeepers,
Office boys, draymen. statesmen? Would
he try to establish some sort of personal
relation to them different from that
which | have sustained all these years?'
] soon answered the question by saying,
Yes. Then came the question OF, what
1t would lead me to do.
~ did not see how l could answer it
to my satisfaction without eefting all
my employees together and having a
talk with them. So / sent invitations
to all of them, and we had a meeting
out there in the warehouse Tuesdav
night
"a good many things came out OF
that meeting | can't tell you all
tried to talk with the men as I i'm.
agined Jesus might. 1t was hard WORT.
for l have not been in the habit of ii.
and must have made mistakes. But |
can hardly make you believe, Mr.. Max.
well. the effect of that meeting on some
of the men Before it closed | saw more
than a dozen of them with tears on
their faces ] kept asking, What would
Jesus dor and the more l asked it the
further along it pushed me into the
most intimate and loving relations with
the men who have worked for me all
these years. Every day something new
is coming up. and | am right now in
the midst of a reconstructing of the
entire business. so far as it's motive for
being conducted is concerned. I'M so
practically ignorant of all plans for CO.
operation and its application to business
that am trying to get information
from every possible source. l have late
ly made a special study of the life of
Titus Salt, the great mill owner of
Bradford, England, who afterward built
that model town on the banks of the
Aire There is a good deal in his plans
that will help But | have not yet
reached definite conclusions in regard
to all the details. | am not enough used
to Jesus methods. But see here"
Milton eagerly reached up into one of
the ~pigeonholes of his desk and took
out a paper
IL have sketched out what seems to
me a programme such as Jesus might
go by In a business like mine. want
you to tell me what you think about
it
WHAT JESUS WOULD DO IN
MLToN wRIGHT's PLACE AS A BUSINESS
MAN.
II. He would engage in business for
the purpose Of clarifying God and not