The true northerner., 1899-12-06

study feeling that kind of satisfaction
and it is very deep kind-which a
man feels when he has been even parti,
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 one 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 wien q went into the
office Milton WrlGht insisted on detain
ing him to talk Over some of his new
plans. Henry O. yweil asked himself if
this was the ALlIuon 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 Twill it payI''
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 / made that prom
ise l have been doing "a great many
things during the last 20 years in this
store that | know Jesus would not do,
but that is a small item compared with
the number of things l begin to believe
Jesus would do. My sins of commission
have not been as many as those 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
sermon without going back to his study
81 think the first change / had TO
make was in my thought of my EN-
ployees. | came down here Monday
morning after that Sunday and asked
myself What would Jesus do in his
.,}elation 10 these clerks, bookkeepers
lffice boys, draymen. salesmeny Would
lhe try 10 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
it would lead me 10 do.
Il did not see how | could answer it
to my satisfaction without getting all
my employees together and having Is
talk with them. So | sent invitations
TO all of them. and we had n meeting
out there in the warehouse Tuesday
night
"A good many things came ont Of
that meeting | can t tell you all.
A--.. 4,Nt .
agined Jesus might 1t was hard work,
for have not been in the habit of il,
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 il closed | saw more
than q dozen Of them with tears on
their faces. | kept asking, What would
Jesus dor and the more ] 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 Its motive for
being conducted is concerned. | am so
practically ignorant of all plans for CO.
operation and its application TO business
that l 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 i have not yet
lreached definite conclusions in regard
TO all the details. / am not enough used
ko Jesus methods. But see here.
I Milton eagerly reached up into one of
the pigeonholes of his desk and took
ont paper.
81 have slretched out what seems TO
me programme such as Jesus might
% by in business like mine. / want
You to tell me what you think about
il.
s'wHAr JESUS WOULD PROBABLY DO IN
MILTON WRIGHT PLACE AS A BUSINESS
MAN.
II. He would engage in business for
the purpose of glorifying God and not
for the primary purpose of making
money
80. All money that might be made
he would never regard as his own, but
as trust funds to be used for the good
of humanity.
''3. His relations with all the per-
sons in his employ would be the most
loving and helpful He could not help
thinking of them all in the light of
souls to be saved This thought would
always be greater than his thought of
making money in business.
~. He would never do single dis
honest or questionable thing or try in
the remotest way to get the advantage
of any one else in the same business
''5. The principle of unselfishness
and helpfulness in all the details of the
business would direct its details
&c. Upon this principle he would
shape the entire plan of his relations to
ehis emploN9es, to the people who were
- ars t.he adnand to the general bust
ssbould beh which he was con-
kpe%ad this over slowly.
>escs own attempts
10 n concrafo