Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-14

Morris rose to go, and Henry Max
well rose and laid a loving hand on the
young man shoulder. -.
"What are you going to do. Fredp'
II don t know yet. Il have thought
some of going to Chicago or some large
city"
"Why don't you try The News?'
"They are all supplied. have not
thought of applying there. /.
Henry Maxwell thought 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 Grand
II can give you place on The
News said Edward Norman, with his
keen look softened bya smile that made
TIT winsome. 81 want reporters who
won't work Sundays. And. what is
more, l am making plans for special
kind Of reporting which believe young
Morris here can develop because he is
in sympathy with what Jesus would
do.
He assigned Morris definite task,
md 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 situation.
He had intended to go back to his
study, but on his way home he passed
by ons Of Milton Wright's stores. He
thought he would simply step in and
shake hands with his parishioner and
Did him godspeed in what he had heard
ae was doing to put Christ into his
business. bnt when he went into tie
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 have been com
PEELED to revolutionize the whole method
of my business since made that prom
Use / have been doing great many
things during the last 90 years in this
| store that 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
have not been as many as those of omis-
sion in business relations y
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.
II think the first change / had to
make was in my thought of my en-
| 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
it would lead me to do.
II did not see how could answer ii
to my satisfaction without getting all
MY employees together and having a
talk with them So sent invitations
to all of them. and we had meeting
out there in the warehouse Tuesday
night
"a good many things came ont of
that meeting | can't tell you all ]
tried to talk with the men as i'm
agined Jesus might 1t was hard work,
for have not been in the habit of it,
and must hive made mistakes But
can hardly make you believe. Mr. Max
we'll the effect of that meeting on some
of the men Before it closed saw more
than dozen of them with tears on
their faces kept asking, What would
Jesus do9' 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 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 itsapplication to business
That ! am trying to get information
from every possible source have late
ly made Il 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 pigeonhqles of his desk and took
out a paper
II have sketched out what seems to
me a programme such as Jesus might
go by in u business like mine want
you to tell me what you think about
"wHAT JESUS WOULD PROBABLY DO IN
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