The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-30

Bible teaching on this subject. Mala-
chi: Il will be swift witness against
all sorcererD aad against ell adulterers
and against those who oppose the hire
ling in his wages" Leviticus: Thou
shalt not keep the wages of the hlIe!lng
sll night unto the morning. !" Colos-
slams: Masters, give unto your own
servants that " which is just and equal,
knowing that ye also have Master ~
heaven. So you see it is not q ques, =
tion between you and your, employee ~
much as it is question between Sou
snd God. .ou :, on
,loyars @ hist you look after :ha moral
soS e-C' sn;ritual welfare Of your employees.
First know where they spend their
evenings. That decides everything.
You 90 not want abound your money
drawer young man who went last
night to see Jack Sheppard. A man
that comes into the store in the morn
ing ghastly with midnight revelry is
not the man for your store. The young
man who spends his evening in the so
ciety Of refined women or in musical or
artistic circles or in literary improve
ment is the young man for your store.
Do Dot say Of these young meu, IF
they do their work in the business
hours, that is sll | have to ask " Geo
has made you that man's guardian. |
want you to understand that many OF
these young men are orphans, or worse
than orphans. flung out into society to
struggle for themselves A young man
is pitched into the middle CT the Allan
tic ocean, and plauk is pitched after
him, aud then he is told to take that
and swim ashore Treat that young
man IS you would like to have your son
treated if you were dead Do not tread
on him. Do not swear st him. Do
not send him on a useless erraud. Say
good morning and good night" and
goodbye You are deciding that
man's destiny for two worlds
Oae OF my earliest rememberances IS
Of old Arthur Isppsn There were
many differences Of opinion about his
politics. but no one who ever knew Ar
thur Tappan, aud knew hiu we'll,
doubted his being an earnest Christian
In his store ia New York he had ro"m
where every morning he called his en-
ployees together, aud he prayed with
them, read the Scriptures 20 them, sang
with them, and then they entered on
the duties of the dsy. % Monday
morning the exercises differed, aud he
gathered the young men together and
asked them Rhere they had attended
church, what had been their Sabbath
experiences and what had been the SER
mon. Samuel Budget had the largest
business in the west of Englsnd. lie
had in room of his warehouse place
pleasantly furnished with comfortable
seats ssd Fletcher's Family Devo-
tions" and Wesleyan hymnbeoks, snd
he gathered his employees together
every morning and, having sung, they
knels down snd prayed side by side
the employer and the employees. Do
you wonder at that mans success and
that, though 30 years before he had
been 8 partner in small reta]l
shops in a small village. at his
death he bequesthed many millions?
God can trust such man as that with
plenty of money.
And then I charge you not to put un-
necessary temptation in the way Of
your young men. Do not keep large
sums Of money lying around unguarded.
Know how much money there is in the
till. Do not have the secount books
loosely kept. There are temptations
inevitable to young men, and enough
of them, without your putting aoy un-
necessary temptations in their way.
Men in Wsll street, having 80 years of
reputation for honesty, have dropped
into Sing Sing and perdition, and yon
must be careful how you try a lad of 10.
And if he do wrong do not pounce on
him like hyena. If he prove himself
unworthy of your confidence, don'tcall
in the police, but take him home. Tell
why you dismissed him to those who
will give him smother chance. Many
young man has done wrong once who
will never do wrong again. All, my
friends, think We can afford to give
everybody smother chance when God
knows we should all have been in per
dition il he had not given US 10000
chances.
Then, if in moving around your fac
tory or mill or barn or store, you are in
exorable with young men God will re.
member it. Some day the wheel of
fortune will turn, and you will be
pauper, and your daughter will 20 to
the work house, and your son will die
on the scafold. If in moving among
your young men you see one with an
ominou1 pallor of cheek or you hear
him coughing behind the counter, say
to him, Say home day or two and
rest or 50 out and breathe the breath of
the hills" If his mother die, do not
demand that On the day after the fun
eral he be in the store. Give him at
least week to get over that which he
will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your en-
ployees, above all, religious life. So
far from that, how is it, young men?
Instead of being cheered on the road to
heaven some Of ou are caricatured, aud
it is hard thing for you to keep your
Christian integrity in that store or fac
tory where there are so many hostile to
religion. Ziethen, grave general ua-
der Frederick the Great, was Chris
,iau. Frederick the Gres, vas skep-
tic. Oae day Z,ethen, the venerable,
white haired general, asked to be ex
cuseG from military dusy that he might
attend the holy sacrament. He was ex-
cused 4 few days after Ziethen was
dining with the king and with many
Dotables Of Prussis when Frederick the