Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-02-23

lSpS or nOb you Will WbHt tndV bpOh nHar
you. Am l not wise when l say put in
the Bible?
Now, YOU are all ready to start. You
have your vaise in tho right hand and
YOU have your blanket and shawl strap in
the left hand Goodby! May you have a
prosperous journey, large sales, great
percentages. OH there is one thing for
got to ask you about-what train are you
going to take? well, you say, II will
take the 8 o'clock Sunday afternoon
train. Why? ooh, - you say, II shall
save "a day by that and on Monday morn
ing | will be in the distant city in the
commercial establishment by the time the
merchants come down. My brother, you
arc starting wrong II you clip off some
thing from the Lord 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 a largo establishment in New
York that said to- young man, "Wc
want Won to start tomorrow afternoon
Sunday afternoon--at j O'Clock for Pitts
burg" ooh. replied the young man,
II never travel on sunday. well, said
the head man of the firm, you must go.
We have got To make time and you must
60 tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. The
young man said, 81 can't go; it is against
my conscience; | can't go. well, said
the head man of the firm, "thcn you will
hive TO lose your situation. There are
plenty of men who would like to 60" The
temptation was too great for the young
man, and he succ umbcd to it. He obeycd
orders. He left on the O'Clock train sun
day 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 bust
ness firm? Bankrupt--one of the firm n
confirmed gambler Out of every week
get "a hours for yourself. Your employer,
young man. has no right to swindlc you
| out of that rest The bitter curse of AL
| mighty God will rest upon that CONNER
! cial establishment which expects its en-
/ ployces to break the Sabbath What right
has Christian merchant to sit down in
/ church on the sabbath when his clerks arc
travelling abroad through the land on that
/ day: Get up, profcssed Christian merchant
! so acting You have no business here. &c
! out and call that boy back. There was "A
merchant in 1887 who wrote: Il should
have been dead man had it not been for
| the sabbath Obliged to work from morn
ing until night through the whole week,
| felt on Saturday, especially on Saturday
afternoon, that | must have rest, 1t was
| like going into n dense fog Everything
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 employee. Young man, the
. srn14l ,,1 i
r,dhot dollar and if you put it into a bag
with 5000 honest dollars that rcdhot dol
lar will burn hole through the bottom
of the bag and let out all the 5000 honest
dollars with it.
Place to study.
But l see you change your mind, ant
you are going on Monday morning and
see you take the tran-Pennsylvania. Of
the Baltimore and Ohio, or the Hudson
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 raj
train. How are you going to occupy th'
time? Open the valise and take out boob
and begin to rcad Magnificent opportu
mites have our commercial travellers FOL
gaining information above all other clerk
or merchants The best place in the worl(
periencc. Do not do as some commercial
travellers do-as many Of them do, us mos
of them do--sit reading the same newspa
per over and over again and all the nd
vcrtisements through and through, theI
sit for two or three hours calculating TIT
profits they expect to make, then spending
two or three hours looking listlessly on
Of the window, then spending three o
four hours in the smoking car, the nasti
est place in Christcndom, talking witt
, men who do not know as much as you do
Instead of thar, call William Shakespeare
the dramatist, and John Ruskin, the es
, sayist, and TcnnysOn, the poet, and Ban
+ croft and Macaulay, the historians ant
, Ezekiel and Paul, the inspired men Of God
, and ask them to sit with you and tai
f with you, as they will if you ask them.
hear YOU say: Il do wish could get on
, of this business of commercial travelling
, l don't like it" My brother why don
you read yourself outy Give me youn
| man of ordinary intellect and good eye
: sight. and let him devote TO valuable read
= ing the time not actually occupied in com
. mcrcial GRAND, and in six years he vii
t be qualified for any position for which h
is ambitious.
n "Oh, you say, Il have no taste fO
"A | reading. NOW, that Is the trOuDle, Dut
@ is no excuse. There was time, my broth
+ cr, when you had no taste for cigars, the
made you very sick, but you perseverc
4 until cigars have become to you Il luxur,
Now, if you can afford to struggle on I
@ get IL bad habit, is it not worth while I
@ struggle on to get good habit like thu
o.. of reading? | am amazed to find no
d many merchants and commercial traveller
n preserve their ignorance from year to yea
q Notwithstanding all their opportunitie
v 1t was we'll illustrated by one who ha
d been largely successful, and who wanto
- the show of library at home, and
" wrote to book merchant in London, So,
d ing, Send me six feet of theology an
1t about as much metaphysics, and near
r yard of civil law in old folo!' There
l. no excuse for u man lacking information
= if he have the rare opportunities of con
c mercial traveller. Improve your mind. X
10 member the Learned Blacksmith" VIII
n while blowing the bellows, set his boo
IT up against the brickwork, and BEGAN
II acquainted with 30 languages. Rememb
l. the scholarly Clifford, who, while an IA
K prentice, Wrought out the arithmetic
70 problem with mis- awl on piece of leathc
a. HsmemssT .Abercrombie, who snatch,
II here and there a fragmentary five mi
> utes from an exhausting profession, a
wrote immortal treatises on ethics.
G. Royal Family.
~ BE ashamed to sell foreign fabrics
-, fruits unless you know something abb
4 the looms that wove them or the vinegar
= that grew them. Understand ali abe
~ the laws that control commercial Ii