THE MAN TO TRUST | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 15.

THE MAN TO TRUST.

MR. STEPHEN GIRARD, the infidel millionaire of Philadelphia, one Saturday bade his clerks come next day and unload a vessel which had just arrived. One young man stepped up to the desk and said, as he turned pale, “Mr. Girard, I can not work to-morrow.” “Well, sir, if you can not do as I wish, we can separate.” “I know that, sir,” said the hero. “I also know that I have a widowed mother to care for, but I can not work on Sunday.” “Very well, sir,” said the proprietor, “go to the cashier’s desk, and he will settle with you.” For three weeks the young man tramped the streets of Philadelphia, looking for work. One day a bank president asked Mr. Girard to name a suitable man for cashier of a new bank about to be started. After reflection, Mr. Girard named this young man. “But I thought you discharged him.” “I did,” was the answer, “because he would not work on Sunday; and the man who will lose his situation from principle is the man to whom you can trust your money.”

The young man of course believed that Sunday was the Sabbath of the Lord, and the sacrifice for principle was gain in the end. He did not consider that he was “forced to work on Sunday,” even tho he lost his position by refusing.