The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-11
THE BUSlHESS MEN AND THE
 CHURCH.

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 Profitable Storekeeping" for July has sent a call broadcast in the States. and indeed wheresoever the magazine is read under the Stars and Stripes. for a getting together" oi the business men and the churChes under the caption of Business Mems Sunday" This paper contends that the church and the schools and the business men are inseparable; that mutual relation should exist and that it would make for harmony and to the betterment of all con cerned; that as the town cannot get along well without the busines; men it likewise cannot get along well without the schools and the churches
 When one stops to think he is compelled to arrive at the conclu- sion that this is true and in the very nature of things that make for good. must be true. No convincing argument need necessarily be ad vanced that the schools and churcn- es stand for. and constantly teach. sound business character; and no convincing argument need be pro claimed that the churches and schools cannot flourish at anywhere near their best, without the cooperation and help of the business men.
 There are families living in every town whose monthly bills are paid when they are presented who would not live in a churchless town. No merchant could long continue his business if he was not constantly receiving perpetual inflow, of monthly bills for the carrying ou of his business His credit would soon be on the wane with his busi ness house if he could not meet his accounts. The church is constant ly teaching that men should pay their bills.
 When the business man picks out an employee he naturally feels more confidence in the young fellow who has been brought up in the church by churchgoing family. These boys and girls are taught to be honest. skillful. thrifty, sober cour teous and energetic, without which qualities business cannot be a sue cess today. and the boy is better for having them. and the girl loses nothing if they are well developed in her character
 The Bible is full of good advice to those who contemplate service in the store and to the owner and business manager. It abounds in such good things as this: Owe no man anything" This was put on the billboard at the church one day and a passerby said it prompted him to pay an outstanding bill that very morning. Study to do your own business" and what man can hope to cope with the competition of today if he will not follow the injunction. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down. and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete wthal it shall be measured to you again. Short weights, short yards, lack of accommodation, a pleasant smile suppressed has lost many customer who might have returned with d larger order for himself and his neighbor. "Seest thou man dili- gent (skilfuD in his business? He shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men" Then the Master Himself has not left us without the grandest and great est of all the doings of big business when He said: T must be about my Fathers business.'
 The business man who keeps the Ten Commandments is better busi ness man for the community than the one who does not keep them. The church tells the parents and the children to Remember the Sab bath day to keep it holy" Man is SO constituted that he cannot keep himself on the business grindstone seven days in the week and pros per in the things that are worth while. Everyone is a part of the governmental, social and spiritual de- velopment of the town in which he lives and if anyone fails to carry his part the town must lack in just the proportion that each fails to do his duty. The church stands for a well kept Sabbath day, and one along the lines that will do all good who will keep it as the Bible directs
 The church teaches the boy and girl not to swear and use vile lan- guage when they enter a store to trade. It certainly is not a good thing for any business man to har- bor in his place of business those characters who constantly emit from their mouths words that contaminate and DOllutp the yOunp and embar-