The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01

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They have no one to appeal to. The
time will come when their arm will be
strong and they can defend themselves
but not now. Alas for some of the cash
boys and the messenger boys and the
boys that sweep the store! Alas for
some of them! Now, you capitalist, you
the head man of the firm, must look,
supervise, see those all around you, in
vestigate all beneath you.
And then l charge you not to put I'M
necessary temptation in the way of
your young men. Do not keep large
sums of money lying around unguard-
ed. Know how much money there is in
the till. Do not have the account books
loosely kept. There are temptations
inevitable to young men, and enough
of them, without your putting any I'M
necessary temptations in their way.
Men in Wall street, having 80 years of
reputation for honesty. have dropped
into Sing Sing and perdition, and you
must be careful how you try lad of
Is. And if he do wrong do not pounce
on him like hyena. If he proves him
self unworthy of your confidence. do
not call in the police, but take him
home. Tell why you dismissed him to
| those who will give him another chance.
Many young man has done wrong
once who will never do wrong again.
| All, my friends. think we can afford
to give everybody another chance when
God knows we should all have been in
perdition if He had not given us 10000
chances.
Then, if in moving around your fac
tory or mill or barn or store, you are
memorable with young men God will
remember it. Some day the wheel of
fortune will turn, and you will be pau
per, and your daughter will go to the
workhouse, and your son will die on the
scaffold. Ii in moving among your
young men you see one with an omi-
nous pallor of cheek or you hear him
coughing behind the counter, say to
him: Stay home a day or two and
rest or go out and breathe the breath
of the hills" If his mother die, do not
demand that on the day after the fu-
neral he be in the store. Give him at
least a week to get over that which he
will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above all, a religious life. So far from
that, how is it, young men? Instead of
being cheered on the road to Heaven
some of you are caricatured, and it is
hard thing for you to keep your Chris
tan integrity in that store or factory
where there are so many hostile to re-
ligion. Ziethen. grave general under |
Frederick the Great, was a Christian. |
Frederick the Great was skeptic. One |
day Ziethen. the venerable. white haired |
tary duty that he might attend the |
holy sacrament. He was excused. A |
few days after Ziethen was dining with |
the king and with many notables of
Prussia when Frederick the Great in a
iocose way said: well, Ziethen, how
did the sacrament of last Friday di.
gest?" The venerable old warrior
arose and said: For your majesty l
have risked my life many time on the
battlefield, and for your majesty l
would be willing at any time to die;
but you do wrong when you insult the
Christian religion. You will forgive
me if I, your old military servant, can
not bear in silence any insult to my
Lord and my Saviour" Frederick the
Great leaped to his feet, and he put out
his hand, and he said; Happy lie
then! Forgive me, forgive me-"
Oh, there are many being scoffed at
for their religion, and thank God there
are many men as brave as Ziethen!
One summer in California a gentle
man who had just removed from the
Sandwich Islands told me this Incl
lent: You know that one of the Sand
yich Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo-
Die getting sick of the leprosy on the |
,ther islands are sent to the isle of ,
epers. They never come off. They are |
n different stages of disease. but all {
who die on that island die of leprosy. ;
On one of the islands there was a ply ,
ician who always wore his hand gloved, G
md it was often discussed why he al G
Ways had a glove on that hand under all =
circumstances. One day he came to the y
and he withdrew his glove. +,
nd he said to the officers of the law: :
You see on that hand a spot of the o
eprosy and that | am doomed to die :
might hide this for little while and ;,
eep away from the isle of lepers; but :
am a physician. and l can go on that
sland and administer to the sufferings =,
those who are farther gone in the .
isease. and I should like TO go now !,
would be selfish in me to stay amid !
he luxurious surroundings when =