Connecticut western news., 1899-02-23


 many people are not Christians who carry Bible. Besides that, before you get home you might become Chris tian, and you would feel awkward without a copy. Besides that, you might get bad news from home. see you with trembling hand opening the telegram, saying, George is dying, or Fannie Is dead; come homel" Oh, as you sit in the train, stunned with the calamity, going home you will have no taste for fine scenery or for conversa- tion, and yet you must keep your thoughts employed or you will go stark mad. Then you will want Bible, whether you read it or not. It will be a comfort to have it near you-that book full of promises which have com forted other people in like calamity. Whether you study the promises or not you will want that book near you. Am I not wise when say put in the Biblef
 Now, you are all ready to start. You have your valise in the right hand, and you have your blanket and shawl strap in the left hand. Goodbyl May you have prosperous journey, large sales great percentages. Oh, there is one thing I forgot to ask you about What train are you going to takef 'Well, you say, 1T will take the o'clock Sun day afternoon train. WhyP "Oh, you say, II shall save day by that, and on Monday morning I will be in the distant city, in the commercial es- ta ablishment, by the time the merchants come down" My brother, you are start ing wrong If you clip off something from the Lords day, the Lord will clip off something from your lifetime suc- cesses. Sabbath breaking pays no better for this world than 1t pays for the next There was large establishment in New York that said to young man: We want you to start tomorrow afternoon Sunday afternoon-at 5 o'clock, for Pittsburg tOh. replied the young man, "I never travel on Sunday" Well" said the head man of the firm, 'you must go. We have got to make time, and you must go tomorrow after noon at o'clock. The young man said: ''I can't go; it is against my con science. can't go." "Well, said the head man of the firm, 'then you will have to lose your situation. There are plenty of men who would like to go, {" The temptation was too great for the young man, and he succumbed to 1t. He obeyed orders. He left on the o'clock train Sunday afternoon for Pittsburg. Do you want the sequel in very short meterf That young man has gone down into life of dissipation. What has become of the business firm Bankrupt-one of the firm confirmed gambler. Out of every week, get 24 hours for yourself. Your employer, young man, has no right to swindle you out of that rest. The bitter curse of Al mighty God will rest upon that com mercial establishment which expects its employees to break the Sabbath. What right has Christian merchant to sit down in church on the Sabbath when his clerks are travelling abroad through the land on that dayf Get up, professed Christian merchant 80 acting. You have no business here. Go out and call that boy back. There was merchant in 1887 who wrote: "I should have been dead man had it not been for the Sabbath. Obliged to work from morn ing until night through the whole week. I felt on Saturday, especially on Satur- day afternoon. that must have rest It was like going into dense fog. Ev- erything looked dark and gloomy as if nothing could be saved. dismissed all and kept the Sabbath in the old way On Monday it was all sunshine, but had it not been for the Sabbath, have no doubt should have been in my grave. Now. say, if the Sabbath is good for the employer, it is good for the em- ployee. Young man, the dollar that you earn on the Sabbath is redhot dollar and if you put it into bag with 5,G00 honest dollars, that redhot dollar will burn hole through the bottom of the bag and let out all the 5000 honest dollars with it.
 How to Occupy Time.
 But I see you change your mind, and you are going on Monday morning, and I see you take the etrain-Pennsylvani or the Baltimore and Ohio, or the Hud- son River, or the Erie, or the Harlem, or the New Haven train. For few weeks now you will pass half of your time in the rail train. How are you go- ing to occupy the time3 Open the valise and take out book and begin to read Magnificent opportunities have our commercial travellers for gaining infor- nation above all other clerks or mer- chantsl The best place in the world to study is rail train. I know it by ex- perience. Do not do as some commer- cial travellers do-as many of them do, as most of them do-sit reading the same newspaper over and over again and all the advertisements through and through. then sit for two or three hours calculating the profits they ex- pect to make, then spending two or three hours looking listlessly out of the window. then spending three or four hours in the smoking car, the nastiest place in Christendom, talking with men who do not know as much as you do. Instead of that call William Shakes peare, the dramatist, and John Ruskin, the essayist, and Tennyson. the poet, and Bancroft and .Macaulay, the his
 
 ,pired men of God, and ask them to sit with you and talk with you, as they will if you ask them. I hear you say: "I do wish I could get out of this busi- ness of commercial travelling. don't like it" My brother, why don't you read yourself outP Give me young man of ordinary intellect and good eye sight and let him devote to valuable reading the time not actually occupied in commercial errand, and in six years he will be qualified for any position for which he is ambitious.
 "Oh, you say. "I have no taste for readingr" Now, that is the trouble, but it is no excuse. There was time, my brother. when you had no taste for cigars; they made you very sick, but you persevered until cigars have become to you luxury. Now. if you can afford to struggle on to get bad habit, is it not worth while to struggle on to get A