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to a clothing salesroom. Then he de
cided to be a great merchant.
At eighteen he was earning $G a
week. He became greatly interested in
religious and temperance work. He
was a born organizer, and his work in
the Y. M. C. A. was so valuable that he
was appointed the first salaried secre
tary of the Philadelphia branch; at
$1,000 a year. No secretary since has
enrolled so many members in the same
space of time. After seven years of this
service, he married and plunged into
business again.
With his brother-in-law he rented a
store and purchased a small stock of
clothing and furnishing goods. Tlu:v
had a capital of $3,f>00. They couh' not
afford a horse and wagon, so John de
livered ihe goods in a two-wheeled
push-cart. Every cent of the profits of
t lie first day's business was invested in
iin advertisement in the next dav's is
sue of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mr. Wanamaker organized the one
price system and created the depart
ment store. He lifted the retail cloth
ing business to a higher plane than it
had ever before reached. In ten years
he had absorbed the space of forty-five
other tenants and become the leading
merchant of Philadelphia. Four years
later he purchased for $450,000 the
block where his present great store is
located. His Philadelphia establish
ments now do a business of many mil
lions every year ? and he has a huge
double store in New York, too, doing
a similar amount of business.
It is related of this great merchant
that he paid a salary of $1,300 to hi3
first salesman, a man of winning per
sonality who attracted trade. This sum
was equal to the capital the employer
commanded at the time. He found it
paid him to engage the very best men
to be had. There are dozens of men in
his employ who receive larger salaries
than cabinet ministers.
John Wanamaker says to-day that his
business success is due to his religious
training and the actual practice of re
ligion. "I attribute my success," said
he, "to thinking, trying, and trusting in
God."
IT REMOVES STAINS.
"Alcohol," says an exchange, "will
remove stains from summer clothes."
That is true, but it also removes the
summer clothes, also the spring, the
autumn and the winter clothes, not only
from the one who drinks it, but from
the wife and family as well. It re
moves the household furniture, the eat
ables from the pantry, the smiles from
the face of his wife, the laugh from the
innocent lips of his children and the
happiness out of his home. As a re
mover of things alcohol has no equal. ?
Boy's World.
DR. CABMAN'S COMMENDATION.
In an address on the subject of the
military operations on the Mexican
border, delivered during his recent fur
lough home, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, pas
tor of Central Congregational church of
Brooklyn, N. Y., who is the chaplain of
the 23rd regiment of New York In
fantry, spoke about the work of the
Army Young Men's Christian Associa
tion in the camp of his regiment at
Pharr, Texas. Dr. Cadman referred to
the enterprise of the Army Young
Men's Christian Association on the Mex
ican border as "splendid and magnifi
cent." He said further:
"Without its wonderful work we
should have been deprived of many of
the best things down there with which
to carry on religious work. The Asso
ciation has put up many buildings la
the different camps and these are crowd*
ed all the time with the young men
from all parts of the country. Life on
the border would be very hard for the
soldiers if it were not for the work of
the Y. M. O. A.
"The buildings which, have been
erected have reading and writing tables,
electric light, ice and plenty of paper
and envelopes. The boys down there
are hungry for letters and write them
all the time. Do you remember what a
letter means when a loved one is uwny
from home? If I could only tell you
of the letters I get from mothers? all
of them contain the same story, 'Please
tell my boy to write me,' and 'he Y. M.
C. A. is supplying the means to fill ihis
demand of the mothers."
I Miscellaneous |
Till: FEDERAL COUNCIL.
At an evening dinner during the
meeting of tho Council in St. Louis
Dr. John R. Mott read the following
as basic principles, prepared by him,
upon which co-operativo or federative
work by churches and other religious
organizations, denominational or in
terdenominational, must proceed:
1. To recognize the headship of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
2. To honor the independence, indi
viduality and autonomy of the Chris
tian agencies concerned.
3. Each of the agencies concerned
should have a clearly defined field and
functions, as defined by itself.
4. Where one agency is occupying
and cultivating a given field and gives
promise of doing so with increasing
acceptance, no other agency should
undertake to occupy the field or to
parallel the existing organization or
its activities.
5. In determining the sphere in
which there should be co-operation
between two or more agencies, due
regard should be paid (1) to the meet
ing of some admitted need or real
crisis; (2) to attaining an object that
is well worth while; (3) to obviating
regrettable waste; (4) to the accom
plishment of results which cannot be
secured as well, if at all, by the agen
cies working separately.
6. Among independnt Christian or
ganiztaions the invitng of co-opera?
tion or the accepting of invitations to
co-operate must be purely voluntary,
as contrasted with having some out
side body attempt to enforce such co
operation.
7. To simplify the machinery of co
operation to its lowest terms.
8. Recognize that the desired co
operation involves an identification of
interests; regular, thorough and
timely consultation on the part of the
leaders of the organization concerned;
mutual consent as to such policies and
methods as are of common concern;
and whole-hearted endeavor to carry
out the plans upon which there has
been agreement.
9. Let the leaders be on their guard
with reference to the things in their
lives which injure co-operatfon and
which make impossible real spiritual
unity ? for example, ignorance, hazy
thinking and vague statement, jeal
ousy, selfish ambition, distrust, lack
of frankness and other sins of the
tongue, political scheming or finesse,
disloyalty.
Upon the wall of the "Education
Room" of the Second Baptist church,
in which the regular sessions of the
Federal Council were held, the fol
lowing nineteen activities of the Coun
cil were named:
Forms of Sorvloc Rendered by the
Federal Conncll.
1. Instituting and conducting con
ferences on great questions.
2. Acting an clearing-house for na
tion-wide religious interests.
3. Originating and presenting me
morials on behalf of great causes.
4. Sending Christian embassies
abroad.
5. Promoting Christian relations
between America and the Orient.
6. Relieving suffering caused by
war.
7. Assisting stricken churches
caused by war.
8. Suggesting natural seasons of
prayer.
9. Securing additional chaplains In
army and navy.
10. Advocating celebration of one
hundred years of peace, etc.
11. Aiding quadri-centennial cele
bration of Protestant Reformation.
12. Helping religious work at in
ternational expositions.
13. Giving special service to the
colored churches.
14. Making presentations at con
ventions and conferences of a relig
ious and social order.
15. Preparing publications relating,
to phases of united work.
16. Compiling year books of gen
eral information for the churches.
17. Furthering publicity of relig
ious views.
18. Developing ways and means for
conservation of human life.
19. Organizing systematic work
through the following organizations:
Commission on Federated Movements.
The Church and Social Service.
Peace and Arbitration (now chang
ed to Commission on International
Justice and Good Will).
Evangelism.
Christian Education.
The Church and Country Life.
Temperance.
State and Local Federations.
Foreign Missions.
Family Life.
Home Missions.
Sunday Observance.
Relations with Japan (now changed
to Commission on Relations with the
Orient).
THE TOBACCO HABIT ? ITS FILTH
IXESS AND SLAVERY.
By Rev. Edward J. Young.
Another objection to the use of to
bacco is the disgusting character of
the plant and the flltliiness It causes
In the user. Dr. Coles says: "There
are but three kinds of animals which
generally use tobacco: the rock goat
of Africa, whose stench is so insuf
ferable that no other animal can ap
proach it; the tobacco worm, whose
intolerable visage gives to every be
holder an involuntary shudder; and
one other nondescript animal, whose
tobacco frothings and spittings defile
his own visage, bespatter and be
daub everything within his reach, who
pollutes the atmosphere with his nau
seous fumigations, and whose Stygian
breath seems to denote approximation
to some bottomless pit."
Hear the plaint of Margaret Piatt
in The Union Signal: "There are
those who are crying out against the
fact that women are largely obtaining
public employment v and ceasing to
marry. . If such be the fact, can wo
wonder at it when nearly every man
you meet makes a smokestack of his
head, a chimney of his nostrils, and a
cesspool of his mouth, until his very
presence is an insult to the atmo
sphere and an offense to a clean wo
man."
"Behold the picture of the man that
chews!
A walking squirt-gun on the world
let loose!"
A proper description of thft habit of
chewing tobacco," says one, "would
exhaust the filthy adjectives of the
language and spoil the adjectives
themselves for further use." I re
call one of these operators, who
abound on every side. Calling upon
a doctor of divinity, then pastor of a
large and fashionable church, as I
'zz'r!Lrv'ir\bB r?-?
uis aesK, but before he could
greet me he was obliged to rush to
cud? wlti.WllldOW and di8gorge a filthy
orp,i U a mouthful ot amber-col
saliva, i don't know what his
servant girl thought of her employer
if she had to clean up the nasty mess
from the walk. but j d?
a young man thought of such a per
ormance. in conversation with him
withm, t 8 name Was raenti<>ned,
*Uhout any reference to his habits
hen the young man exclaimed in a
tone of disgust: "You Just ought to
see him squirt tobacco juice over the
Pavement." i8n.t that a nJce ^
tation for a minister of the gospel
to have, especially with young men
whom ho desires to influence? Evi
dently that ruminating D. D had for
gotten the classification o7' the an"
mals by Jehovah Hlmselt: "All that
chow the cudi bu( nro no( Hth?
footed, are unclean beasts."
A more serious objection to the use
tor ?, ? Is the despotism and bit
er slavery which It inflicts upon Its
to tha m Th; t0baCC? SlaVe Wl11 8to?P
to the most degrading means to grtaify
tIppH imp*rious master. There i3, in
deed no bondage more relentless, and
chain harder to break. Even th*
appetite of the drunkard la often more
easily overcome. An eminent mta?
ter exclaimed: "i would Bladl
own a hundred pounds If I could
give up sm(;kinK.,. Another m,n .,er
?*?<" 'o give up tobacco, re
plied: -Not I. j will use It
Chrl m"S mr "fe seven years." a
Christian professor called tor
ennif in hor dying agonies and fhe
fromT"8 u" weGp'?g friends heard
g<ve me ?uirP" TO*! "
Itev. George Traak writes: "i 3a?
a ma? who told me that tobacco we"
the dearest thing he had on ear?
SUle6" a. a"' Cl"Id' Chur<"> or
oiuie. As Rev Mr oim
??TiiAra . ? s,m8 say3:
There ia many a man who would
see widows and orphans, and even his
own wife and children, suffer long for
want of bread to eat. rather than leave
and H ?' " he ha4 "? ??>" moana6
nd devote the money for Its purchase
to their supply of bread." Mrs law
rence tells of a man who, finding hT,"
family at one time out of melt and
flour and himself out of tobacco and
Who had only went to thestorel
He returned with 60 cents' worth
meat and *1.25 worth ot tobacco tell
ng his wife that they must "'trust
on PauP '?r "our " w"at a comment
unde" lnjunc,;?"> lo keep the body
anee^'now "''deceased "a* acquaint
doctor ot d,v,r;.cd'.nda ;rr?r
erate chewer, had n ? ? uv
hlf,y ?ted Physician eifho?rwa:
unfortunates addicted to alcZ
and opium. The minister would
occasionally remonstrate with th?
Physician, but tho lat * ?
... , , 1 ine Jat er resented it
and exclaimed angrily: "Dr A
needn't talk to mo about being a slave
to morphine and whiskey when he I,
slave to coffee and tobacco." Thus
the influence of that minister with hf^
neighbor was practically nil, as it is
of every other minister who ,s 80
obviously inconsistent in his own life
latently ?' Chr,8t ^
7.f-reJraC^V;\rhP,emr,:1
rious habit?0" " ??
J- moro J*
don t use tobacco than if I would walk
n here and throw out a cud ir 72
cut, rinse my mouth with water And
than start to preach. . . . Booze
the n?H I"", clgar8Ke smoking are ,
the. principal thing, that keep men !