El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-18


for have not been in the habit of IT,
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 l saw more
than dozen of them with tears on
their faces l kept asking, What would
Jesus dor and the more I 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 1 am right now in
the midst of a reconstructing of the
entire business, so far as its motive for
being conducted is concerned. 1 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. I have late
ly made 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
reached definite conc lusions in regard
to all the details. 1 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.
81 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 PROBABLY DO IN
MILTON wRIGHTS PLACE AS A BUSINESS
MAN.
81. He would engage in business for
the purpose of clarifying God and not
for the primary purpose Of making
money
80. ALI 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.
"a. 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 unselfshness
and helpfulness in all the details of the
business would direct its details
sc. Upon this principle he would
shape the entire plan of his relations to
his employees. to the people who were
his customers and to the general bust
ness world with which he was con-
nected.
Henry Maxwell read this over slowly
1t reminded him of his own attempts
the day before to put into concrete
form his thought of Jesus probable &C
ton He was very thoughtful as he
looked up and met Milton Wright's
eager gaze.
do you believe you can continue to
make your business pay on those lines9'
II do. Intelligent unselfshness ought
to be wiser than intelligent selfishness.
don you think? If the men who work
As employees begin to feel personal
share in the profits of the business and.
more than that. a personal love for
themselves on the part of the firm
won't the result be more care less
waste. more diligence more faithful
hess 2
Yes: think so A good many other |
u i
Is general thing. How about your re-
ations to the selfish world that is not |
rying TO make money ON Christian
THAT complexities my action. of
course.
Does your plan contemplate what is
coming TO be known as cooperation
Yes; as far as have gone. it does
4 H~II 7 |
letails carefully. am absolutely con-
'lnced that Jesus in my place would be
.bsolutely unselfish- He would love all
hese men in his employ He would
onsider the main purpose of all the
BUSINESS to be a mutual helpfulness and
yould conduct it all so that Gods king
ON would be evidently the first object
ought. On those general principles, as
say, am working. 1 must have time
} complete the details -
When Henry Maxwell finally left
[ilton Wright, he was profoundly i'm
ressed with the revolution that was
cling wrought already in the business
s he passed out of the store he caught
of the new spirit of the place.
here was no installing the fact that
1lton Wright's new relations to his
nployees were beginning, even so soon,
ter less than two weeks, to transform
e entire business. This was apparent ,,
the conduct and faces of the clerks.
IF Milton Wright keeps on, he will
one of the most influential preachers
raymond, said Henry Maxwell to =
mself when he reached his study The :
lestlon rose as to his continuance in
Is course when he began to lose
oney by it. as was possible. Henry q
axwell prayed that the Holy Spirit,
40 had shown himself with growing
Wer in the cOmnanY of the First p