The Penn's Grove record., 1900-05-25

AS 10r as possible, Olc0 a year Visit Qt In0lI
homes your clerks and your workmen.
quainted with their wants.
You will by such process find out that
there is a blind parent or a sick sister be-
ing supported. You will find some OF your
young men In rooms without any fire In
winter and In summer sweltering In Ill
ventilated apartments. You will find much
depends on the wages you pay or With
hold.
Moreover, 1t Is your duty as employer, as
far as possible, 10 mold the welfare 81 the
employe. You ought to advise him about
Investments. about life insurance. about
savings banks. You ought to give him the
benefit OF your experience.
There are hundreds and thousands OF
employers, I amJglad ssto say, who are set.
Ting in the very best possible way the des.
tiny OF their employees. Such men as Mar
shall of Leeds, Lister of Bradford, Akroyd
Of Halifax and men SO near at home 1t
might offend their modesty II 1 mentioned
their names-these men have built reading
rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded
croquet lawns, cricket grounds, gymna-
Sums, choral societies for their employees,
and they have not merely paid the wages
on Saturday night, but through the con-
tentment and the thrift and the good
morals OF their employees they are paying
wages from generation to generation for
ever.
Again, I counsel all employers to look
we'll after the physical health OF their sub
~ordinates. Do not put on them n I'M
necessary fatigue. I never could UNDER
stand why h drivers on our city cars
must stand all day when they might just
as we'll sit down and drive.
It seems to me most unrighteous lat so
many OF the female clerks In our stores
should be compelled to stand all day and
through those hours when there are but
few or no customers. These people have
aches and ~annoyances and weariness
enough without putting upon them addi.
tional fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down on the business oil
the store. let them sit down.
Then I would have you carry out this
sanitary idea and put into as few hours as
possible the work Of the day. It seems to
me all the merchants in all departments
ought, by simultaneous movement, to com
out In behalf OF the early closing theory
These young mon ought to have an oppor-
tunity OF going to the mercantile library,
to the reading rooms, to the concert hall,
to the gymnasium, to the church. They
have nerves, they have brains, they have
intellectual aspirations, they have i'm
mortal spirits. II they can do a good
| round days work in the eight or ter
hours. You have no right to keep them
harnessed for seventeen.
But above all I charge you, o employers,
that you look after the moral and spiritual
welfare OF your employees. First, know
where they spend their evenings. That
decides everything. You do not wan
around your money drawer q young man
who went last night to see Jack Shep.
pardle A mar that comes into the store
In the morning CHASTITY with midnight rev.
elry is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends his evening In ths
society OF refined women or In muaical OF
artistic circles or in literary Improvement
is the young man for your store.
Do not say OF these young men. ST
they do their work in the business hours,
that is all I have to ask" God has made
you that mans guardian. I want you to
understand that many OF these young men
are orphans or worse b orphans, flung
out into society to struggle for them
selves.
And then I charge you. not to put unnec.
essary temptation in the way Of 0
young men. Do not keep large sums oil
money lying around unguarded. Know
how much money there is the till. Dc moi
have the account books loosely kept
There are temptations Inevitable to young
] men, and enough OF them, without you
putting any unnecessary temptations In
their way. Men In Wall street having thir.
y StA40 Va " A0AO1G IL
dropped into Sing Sing and perdition,
and o must be careful how you try {
lad OF fifteen. And If he do wrong do moi
pounce On him like a hyena. H. he prove
himself unworthy OF your confidence, dc
not call In the police, but take him home
Tel! why you dismissed him to those who
will give him another chance.
Many O young man has done wrong once
who will never do wrong again. All, mi
friends, I think we can afford to give every
body another chance when God knows WI
should all have been in perditionlif He had
not given US 10000 chances.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above all, q religious life. SO far from
that. how is it, young men? Instead oil
OF you are carlcatured, and it is q hard
thing for you to keep your Christian integ.
rity In that store or factory where there
are so many hostile to religion. Ziethen
a grave general under Frederick thu
Great, was a Christian. Frederick the
Great was a skeptic. One day Ziethen
the venerable, white haired general, asked
to be excused from military duty that
be might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. A few days after
Zlethen was dining with the king and
with many notables OF Prussia, when
Frederick the Great in a jocose way
said, well, Ziethen, how did that sacra.
ment OF last Friday digsst7" The enera
Bile old warrior arose and said: ssFor your
majesty ! have risked my life many q time
on the battlefield, n for your majesty ]
would be willing any time to die; but you
do wrong when you insult the Christian
religion. You will forgive me II /, YOU
old military servant, cannot bear In silence
any insult to my Lord and my Saviour
Frederick the Great leaped to hts feet, ant
he put cut his hand. int be said: "Happ,
Zietheni Forgive me, forgive mel'
Oh, there are many being scoffed at FOL
their religion, and ! thank God there arr
many men rs brave as Ziethen! Go tt
heaven yourself, o employerl Take al
your people with you. Soon you will bt
through buying and selling, and through
with manufacturing and building. and
God will ask you: where ere all those
~iuence? Are they here? Will they ha
here?" 0 shipowners, into what harboI
will your crew sail? Oh, you merchant
grocers, are those young men thai
under your care are providing food for
the bodies and families OF men to ge
starved forever2 Oh, you manufac,
turers, with SO many wheels flying and
SO many bands pulling and 80 many new
patterns turned out q SO many goods
shipped, are the spinners, are the carmen
are the draymen, are the statesmen, are tn,
watchers OF your establishments working
out everything but their own salvation.
Can It be that, having those people under
your care five, ten, twenty years. you hav,
made 10 everlasting impression for good OF
their immortal souls? God turn us all bacl
from such selflshness and teach us to lfvl
for Others and not for ourselves. Chris
sets us the example OF sacrifice, and so d.
many OF His disciples.
One summer in California a gentleman
who had Just rem0ved from the Sandwich