The Washington herald., 1909-06-06

to go to a dance. wouldn't care TO go;
II any one offered me a cigar. I wouldn't I
care 10 take IL None OF those curses
ever had any temptation for me. It's no
trouble for me 10 do as Jesus would IN
such cases.
Makes Difference in business
BIT I found it made a difference IN
business. I find that people in general
don't add up the items Of a bin. II you
send them a bill Of fifty or sixty items.
they viii pay the amount at the foot OF
the column without counting II up.
In three instances since I started liv-
ing as Jesus would l found that through
a clerical error this sum had been TOO
large. and I returned the money. This
Is not business, and Il is not the way
business houses do. never did il be-
fore. and considered myself honest and
as good as the next man.
I found when ! prOpOunded the ques-
ton 70 myself. What would Jesus do?'
that that was the thing that had. 10 be
done. In two OF the cases the difference
amounted 20 only a few cents In the
third case 1t was SO.
In two instances customers handed
out too much money, thinking IL was the
correct sum. and I returned IT, That
isn't considered necessary in business,
YOU know. II you name the right sum. IT
is I'D TO the customer 10 count his change
right in case he is attempting to make
the exact change Twice in quoting prices
1 resisted the temptation 10 run them up
a little higher. as I knew 1 could have
done
The man who mended my automobile
forgot one item IN his bill I mentioned
II 10 him. It cost me 81. I rather grudged
that. for all kinds Of charges on autOmO-
b,leS are certainly extOrtiOnate But aft
er you really get 10 trying the scheme.
you know, the question. What would
Jesus do?' gets TO be a sort of obsessiOn-
II crops up in your mind continually
and sort Of COmpels you. don't YOU know.
Il read the other day IN a New York
paper the statement Of Binsham's that
ne had been offered 10000 If he would
permit some violation of the law 10 90
on Now I hope that temptation viii
never come 10 ne
I don't have TO pray 20 be delivered
from the temptations OF saloons or gam
bling or vice, but I should certainly pray
% be delivered from that temptation.
After my little experience in the What
would Jesus dO2 movement. I wOuldn' [
feel that I ought 70 be too hard on any
man that fell before such a temptation
as that.
Some Negative Points.
The constant recurrence Of that Ques-
tion changed my point Of view Of bust
ness. A customer came IN and asked
me why his bill was S2.25 more the sec
ond quarter than the first. I looked up
-, .srY
for the second quarter was correct and
the first wrong.
Well he said, Tn sorry, but the
loss is on you; Of course. that bills paid
and receipted"
"Of course. I knew II was and had no
intention OF asking anything. He fol
lowed the established custom. but he
certainly did not 90 rs Jesus would
In another case a customer wrote me
10 send his bill up 10 a certain date. The
bOOkkeeper supposed II was for the reg
ular supplies alone, and made it out for
that. There had been various little ex-
tras amounting to $3.50. ] had her make
out the bill for those and sent II after
ward. but the man refused 10 pay.
He said that when a customer called
for a bill I'D 10 a certain date Il was sup
posed to include everything. and he was
not obliged 10 pay anything not included
in II. He did not deny that he had had
the things, but because OF a rule OF busi-
ness procedure he was willing 10 deprive
me OF $3.50 had 10 take the bill 10 his
superior. who ordered II paid.
There is a book over there on that
\ shelf that sells steadily year after year
It's a standard among church people
Years ago a woman wrote that little
story 10 compete for prize offered by