Show the prompt clerk I 1 once knew a young man said an eminent preacher the other day in a sermon to young men that was wa 8 commencing norn life as a 4 clerk i one day his employer said to him now ow tomorrow to morrow that cargo of cotton must be got st out and weighed and we must have a jar account of it he was a young man of energy this was i the t h e first fi r S t time he had been in trusted to superintend sup the execution of this work he made his bis arrangements over night spoke to the men about their carts and horses and resolving to begin very early in the morning he instructed the laborers to be there at half past four so they set to work and the thing was done and about ten or eleven his mister master ca came calein mein in and seeing him sitting in the counting house look looked e d very black supposing his commands had not been executed I 1 1 I though said the master you were requested to get out that cargo this morning it is all done said the young man land and here is the account of it he never looked behind him from that moment in ent never his character was fixed confidence was established he was found to be the man to do the thing with promptness prom aptness he hevery very P on came to be one that could not be spared fe he was as necessary to the firm as any one of the partners partner S he was a re religious man and went through it a life of great benevolence and at his death w was as able to leave his children an ample fortu fortune ne he was not smoke to the eyes nor vinegar to alie e teeth but just to the contrary youth Youths Instructor k I 1 I 1 I 1 |