Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-05-21

poS. E1cSI, KNOW where iuoy Sponu
their evenings. That decides every
thing You do not want around your
money drawer q young man who went
last night to see 'sJack Sheppard!' A
man that comes into the store in the
morning CHASTITY with midnight revelry
is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends his evening in
the society of refined women or in
musical or artistic circles or in literary
Improvement is the young man for
your store.
Do not say Of these young men, eff
they do their work in the business
hours, that is all / have to ask" God
has made you that mans guardian. l
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 of the At
lantic ocean, and a plank is pitched
after him, and then he is told to take
that and swim ashore. Treat that
young man as you would like to have
your son treated if you were dead. Do
not tread on him. Do not swear at
him. Do not send him on a useless
errand. Say "Good morning. and
"Good night" and "Goodby." You are
deciding that mans destiny for two
worlds.
One of my earliest remembrances is
of old Arthur Tappan. There were
many differences of opinion about his
politics, but no one who ever knew
Arthur Tappan, and knew him we'll,
doubted his being an earnest Christian.
In his store in New York he had a room
where every morning he called his en-
plOyees together, and he prayed with
them, read the Scriptures to them,
sang with them, and then they entered
on the duties Of the day. On Monday
morning the exercises differed, and he
gathered the young men together and
asked them where they had attended
church, what had been their Sabbath
experiences and what had been the SER
mon.
True Christian Character.
Samuel Budget had the largest bust
ness in the west of England. He had
in a room Of his warehouse a place
pleasantly furnished with comfortable
seats and Fletchers Family Devo-
tions" and Wesleyan hymnbooks, and
he gathered his employees together ev-
cry morning, and, having sung, they
knelt down and prayed side by side
the employer and the employees. Do
you wonder at that mans success and
that though 80 years before he had
been partner in a small retail shop in
a small village at his death he be-
queathed many millions? God can
trust such a man as that with plenty Of
money.
Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was
beyond computation, and at Saltaire,
England, he had a church and a chapel
built and supported by himself-the
church for those who preferred the
Episcopal service and the chapel for
those who preferred the Methodist
service. At the opening of one of his
factories he gave a great dinner, and
there were $500 people present, and in
his after dinner speech he said to these
people gathered: 81 cannot look around
me and see this vast assemblage of
friends and work people without being
moved. l feel greatly honored by the
presence Of the nobleman at my side,
and I am especially delighted at the
presence Of my work people. I hope to
draw around me population that will
enjoy the beauties of this neighborhoOd
"a population of well paid, contented,
happy operatives. I have given in
structions to my architects that moth
ing is to be spared to render the dwell
ings Of the operatives a pattern to the
country, and if my life is spared by
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tentment, satisfaction and happiness
around me-"
That is Christian character demon
strated. There are others in this coun-
try and in other lands on a smaller
scale doing their best for their en-
ployees. They have not forgotten their
own early struggles. They remember
how they were discouraged, how hun
CRY they were and how cold and how
tired they were, and, though they may
be 60 or 70 years of age, they know
just how q boy feels between 10 and
20, and how a young man feels be-
tween 20 and 80. They have not for
gotten it. Those wealthy employers
were not originally let down out of
heaven with pulleys Of silk in wicker
basket, satin lined, famed by cherubic
wings. They started in toughest era
die, on whose rocker misfortune put
her violent foot and tipped them into
the cold world. Those old men are
sympathetic with boys.
God Will Remember.
But you are not only to be kind to
those who are under -Christianly
kind-but you are also to see that your
boss workman and your head clerks
and your agents and your overseers in
stores are kind to those under them.
Sometimes man will get little brief
authority in q store or in factory and.