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of the street, or around the entrances of hotels,
putting on swell airs, and spitting promiscuously.
No sensible man would ever employ such youth
for any responsible situation.”

“Other things being equal, I prefer to employ a
boy who does not use tobacco,” says another.

You may think that it is nobody’s business how you
spend your Sundays, whether in riding and boating
and sleeping, or in church-going.

Perhaps this zs so; but another rich man writes
me: “The religious observance of the Sabbath I
consider a very important element in the success
of young men, not only morally, but intellectually,
physically and financially. The use of the Sabbath
as a day of amusement and recreation, does not
command the respect or confidence of those who
hold thé purse strings, and whose good opinions are
valuable to give credit and a good reputation.”

Still another writes: “Shrewd business men are
wont to regard those who honor the Lord’s day with
favor; and upon those who dishonor it they look with
distrust and suspicion.”

So you see that the old-fashioned virtues have not

-slow old road of uprightness and industry.

OUR BUSINESS BOYS.

gone out of use after all, at least if these Portland
merchants are to be believed.

You do not wear the same kind of collars and
neckties and coats that your grandfathers wore
when they were boys, but the same kind of hard
work and honesty and truthfulness are necessary for
you if you would succeed as most of them succeeded.
You can go from Boston to New York a good deal
quicker than they could, but you can’t reach the goal
of true success without travelling the same hard,
Fire
burns and ice freezes as in their day, and lack of
training, and business gambling and rum and bad
company are as sure to lead to ruinous failure as ever.

One correspondent says: ‘“ After all, it’s not what
is preached into a boy, so much as what springs up
out of a boy, that keeps him in the right way.”

There is a great deal of truth in that saying,
and my hope is that something that these business
men have said to you, through me, may be like a
good seed in your hearts, which shall spring up
and bear the fruit of an earnest, honest, and pure
life, and that will surely be a successful life.