Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-09-30

this was the Milton Wright he used to know, e1ninently practical business- like, according to the regular code of 1 the business world. and viewing every thing first and foremost from the stand point of Will it pay
 There is no use to disguise tho fact, MT Maxwell, that I have been com pelled to revolutionize the whole method of my business since I made tfht prom ise have been doing a great many things during the last 20 years in this store t11at l know Jesus would not do, hut that is . small item compared with the number of things begin to believe Jesus would do My sins of commission have not been IS many as those of onlis- l sion in business relations
 "What was the first change you made9h asked Henry Maxwell. He felt as If his sermon conld wait for him in his study. As the interview with Mile ton Wright continued he was not SC sure but he had found material for a sermon without going hack to his study.
 I think the first change 1 had to make was in my thought of my ern- l pl6yees. came down here Monday morning after that Sunday and asked myself What would Jesus do i'll his relation to these clerks, boolzkeepers, office boys dray3nen. salesme1lg Would he tfy 10 establish some sort of personal I relation to them different from that l which l have sustained all these years z 1 soon answered the question by saying, Yes. Fhen came the question of what 1t would lead Inc to do.
 I did not see how I could answer 1t to my satisfaction without getting all my employees together and having a talk with them So l sent invitations fo all of them, and we had a meeting out there iii the warehouse Tuesday night.
 A good many things came out of that meeting can tell you all I tried to talk with the men as l inn agincd Jesus might. It was hard work, for have not been in the habit of if, and must have made mistakes But can hardly make you believe Mr. Max well. the effect of that meeting on some of the men. Before it closed l saw more than dozen of them with tears on their faees kept asking, What would Jesus do 2 and the more l asked 1t tho further along 1t pushed mo into tho most intimate and loving relations with the men who have worked for me all these years Every day something new is coming up, and I am right now ih the midst of 9 reconstrueting Of the entire business. So far as its. motive for being conducted is concerned. 1 am so practically ignorant of all plans for CO., operation and its application to business that am trying to get information from every possible source. l have late- ly made q special study of the life of Titus Salt the graat mill owner of Bradford, Englal.a. who afterward built that model town er the banks of the Aire. There is U rood deal in his plans that viii help. But I lave not yet reached definite conclusions in regard toasl the details. l am not enough used 60 .Iasus methods But see here.
 Milton eagerlg reached up into one of the pieeonholes of his desk and took out paper
 .'I have saetched ont what seems to mo q programme such as Jesus might go Dy n business like mine. want yon to tell ple what you think about 1t .
 WHAT Jasts WOULD PRoBABLY DO IN
 MILTON WEIGHT $ PLAeE Al A BUSINESS
 MAN.
 ''f. He would engage Ill business for tine purpose of glorifying God and not for the primary purpose of making money
 90 All ,.,,,,s.x. 41,o4 ,,zix5,+ l he woHla never regard as his own, but as trust funds to be used for the gooA of humanity.
 s3. His relations with all the per- sons in his employ would I51 the msssa loving. and helpful He could not help thinking of them all ih the light of senls to be saved. This thought would always be greater than Xhis thought of making money in businees
 A. He would never do q single dis honest or questionable thing or try in tho remotest way to get the advantage of any one else in the same business.
 '.5. The principle of unselfishness and helpfnlness in all the details of the business wonld direct its details.
 s6. Upon this principle he would shape the entire plan of his relations fo bis employees, to the people who were his customers and to the general busi- ness world with which he was con- nected 7
 Henry Maxwell read this over slowly. IL reminded him of his own attempts the day before to put into a concrete form his thought of Jesus probable ac- tion He was very thoughtful as he looked Up and met Milton Wright $ eager gaze.
 Do you believe you can continue to make yonr business pay on those lines '.i do. Intelligent unsel lhshness ought to be wiser than Intelligent selfishless, don t you think If the men who work as employees begin fo feel a nersonal share in the iretits Of the business and, 1, more than that, . personal love for | ttN,a4,t Al. "a