Milford chronicle., 1905-09-08
nne rnIenteh PennIe.

% one powerful lesson you viii lear
} there This is the lesson: When yOl
It enter a great dry goods emporium
> where millions of dollars worth o
e goods are sold every year. the floor
= walker who greets you at the door, th'
L clerk who sells you the goods over the
!, counter. the delivery boy who hands
the parcels in at the door, are all one
$ talented folks II that clerk is disre
: spectful, if the young man in the shoe
S department does not wait upon you
{ patiently and kindly, you leave that
5 store in disgust. In a large dry goods
} store as an ordinary customer you
, never meet the manager or the great
t European buyer or the owner Of the
store You deal with the common one
talent clerk Nearly all the goods in a
large retail store are sold by one talent
clerks, and the way those clerks treat
their employers customers decides
how much those customers will buy.
Is not this illustration an overwhelm-
ing proof to you of the mighty in
fuencc ana power of the one talent
people?
The one talent clerk may say: II am
only an insignificant atom i'm my en-
ployer's business. l am only a drop
OF water in a great ocean, two and
one-half miles deep and 5000 miles
wide. I am only n leaf amid a whole
forest of autumnal foliage l am only
little fickerng candlelght in ho-
ri2on ablaze with the flaming chari-
OTIS of the nOOntide sun. ] do not
amount to anything" Oh, yes, my
brother, yOu do. As Il clerk in the
store, as a typewriter or salesman or
a salesw0man you are not an insignif
icant atom, though you may be occu-
pying a small place. You are not
drop of water amid an ocean of heav
ing pillows. You are not leaf or a
candlelight dimmcd by the glory of
the nOontide sun, but you are the cogs
of wheel which are absolutely essen |
tial to make the wheel move. If the
little cOgs are gone, then the wheel |
stops. If the wheel stops. then all the
vast machinery of the factory is halt |
ed. In the great railroad engine the |
boiler, generating the steam which |
draws the long line of freight cars, is
absolutely essential, but are not the
piston rods and the driving wheels and
the truck and the coal tender and the
furnace and all the other parts of the
locomotive just as essential?
Not to BE Despised.
What would you think of the long
branches Of a great tree looking down
in disgust at the roots just exposed
when the sod is turned over by the
farmers spade? What would you think
if those branches would say: "Oh, you
filthy, dirty roots. Why are you in
yOnder darkness? Can you not array
yourselves in my coat of many cOlors?
will have none Of you" Well, today
the owner of the great dry goods store
can no more be Independent of his
clerks than the tree branch can be in
dependent of the tree root. What
would you think of the wood of the
tall mast despising the wood Of the
ships keel? Can the hand say to the
wrist, Il have no need of theef" Can
he foot say to the eye, Il have no {
leed of theeY Can the heart say to I
he lung, i have no need of thse?' !
Neither can the glass Office say to the I
counter, Il have no need of thee" The '
me talent clerk is just as essential for {
he marvellous developments Of the
world as is the ten talent {
merchant or the ten talent capitalist. q
The Hebrew talent is no insignificant b
apital which God places in the hand S
# the ordinary, everyday, common L
lace clerk who sells us our goods over a
he store counter. u
But if we speak well of the one talent t
Jerk shall we not also speak well Of I
he worldwide influence Of the one tai c
nted mechanic and the one talented
aborer and the one talented engineer Il
nd the one talented carpenter and the o
ne talented mason and all the one tai p
nted men who WELD saw and strike p
ammer and drop plumbline and push Il
lane? Is not the workman whose dcft b
myers make the piano just as essen v
ial for the worlds melodies as the
lusicians whose sensitive touch make q
he great bellows of harmony rear f
themselves and dash themselves into
White foam upon the coral reefs of S
-hite ivory keys? Shall we not honor &
Oday the Suadivarius who manufac- o
1res the violins. as well as the Paga- z
inis and the Ole Bulls who can make q
he strings weep and wall or laugh and {
ing when they wave over them the Il
ouch Of their magic bows? Are not n
disciples who give to us
le printed page just as essential for
le dissemination of knowledge as the /;
.ain of Gallei or the sacred pen of 81
homas a Kempis or the rugged elo- W
renee Of Thomas Carlyle or the match b
IS literary creations of William &C
iakespeare or the freside songs of pt
anry Longfellow or Eugene Field? N
The chise Of the one talented stone 81
tier writes whole pages in the chap al
RS of the worlds progress as well as ci
q pen Of the statesman. the architect 81
"a the social sage Henry Ward so
,echer some years ago in a sermon w
-idly described an expert stOnecut- ra
coming into this country as an i'm an
grant He knows no one and no a
. knows him. but when he applies an
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