Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-02-24

small type ~ Dau loI tue eyes any
where, but peculiarly killing in the jolt
pf a rail train. Put your railroad guide
md your Bible side by side-the one to
show you the route through this world
and the other to show you the route to
the next world. "Oh, you say, "that
is superfuous, for now in all the hotels
in the parlor you will find Bible, and
in nearly all the rooms Of the guests
you will find one. But, my brother,
that is not your Bible.
should Garry a Bible.
You want your own hat, your own
coat, your own blanket, your own Bible.
But" you say, Il am not Chris
tian, and you ought not to expect me
to carry Bible. My brother, a great
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. l 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 a Bible,
whether you read it or not. 1t 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
| not wise when l say put in the Bibleg
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. Goodby May you
have prosperous journey, large sales
great percentages Oh, there is one
thing | forgot to ask you about! What
train are you going to take? well
YOU say. Il will take the 5 clock sun
day afternoon train" WhyS "Oh,
YOU say, Il shall save day by that,
and on Monday morning will be IN
the distant city, in the commercial es-
tablishment. by the time the merchants
come down" Ny brother, You are start
ing wrong. II you clip off something
from the Lords day, the Lord will clip
off something from your lifetime sue
cesses. Sabbath breaking pays no better
for this world than it pays for the next
There was large establishment in New
York that said to a young man; I'VE
want You 10 start tomorrow afternoon
Sunday afternoon-at D O'Clock, Tor
Pittsburg. "Oh, " replied the young
man. Il never travel on Sunday.
"Well." said the head man Of the firm
"you must 90. We have got to make
time. and you must 90 tomorrow after
noon at 5 o'clock" The young man
said: "I can't go il is against my con-
science. can't 90" "Well, % said the
head man Of the firm, "then you Will
have 10 lose your situation. There are
plenty of men who would like to 90.
The temptation was too great for the
| voung man, and he succumbed TO 1t.
He obeyed orders. He left on the D
o'clock train Sunday afternoon for
Pittsburg. Do you want the sequel IN
| very short meter That young man has
gone down into a life Of dissipation.
What has become Of the business firm
Bankrupt-one Of the firm confirmed
gambler. Out of every week, get "a
hours for yourself Your employer
Young man, has no right to swindle you
ont 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 a Christian merchant to SIT
down in church on the Sabbath when
his clerks are travelling abroad through
the land on that day? Get up, professed
| Christian merchant. so acting. You
have no business here. Go out and call
that boy back. There was merchant
in 1897 who wrote: 81 should nave
been a 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-
dav afternoon. that | must have rest.
II was like going into a dense fog. Ev'
erything looked dark and gloomy as II
nothing could be saved. l dismissed all
and kent the Sabbath in the old way.
On Monday it was all sunshine, but had
| il not been for the Sabbath, have no
doubt l should have been in my grave.
Now. say, if the Sabbath is good for
the employer, it is good for the en-
ployee. Young man, the dollar that you
earn on the Sabbath is redhot dollar,
and if you put it into bag with ., oOO
honest dollars, that redhot dollar Will
burn a 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
see you take the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
or the Baltimore and Ohio, or the Hud-
son River, or the Erie, or the Harlem,
or the New haven tIdlu- AOi -"
weeks now you will pass half OF youi
time in the rail train. How are you go
ing TO occupy the timer Open the vals'
and take out book and begin to read
Magnificent opportunities have ON
commercial travellers for gaining infor
nation above all other clerks OF mer'
chantsl The best place in the world tC
study is a rail train. know it by ex'
perience. Do not do as some CONNER
cial travellers do--as many OF them DO
as most of them do--sit reading th'
sane newspaper over and over again
and all the advertisements through ano
through. then sit for two or three
hours calculating the profits they ex
pect to make. then spending two ol
three hours looking listlessly ont OF th'
window. then spending three or toul
hours in the smoking car, the nasties
place In Christendom. talking VIII
men who do not know as much as yor
do. Instead of that call William Shakes
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