Show THE AMERICAN WAY AY Efficiency Engineer t By Dr Norman Vincent Peale Editors Editor's Note Dr Peale is minister of historic Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue New v York City ant and author of the current best seller A Guide to Confident Living A very interesting change is coming over the thinking of modern men with respect to all reverence and with the profoundest respect they are discovering that tha t Jesus Christ is the greatest efficiency expert of all time It ft will not be long I predict until the most enlightened leaders of labor and of business will realize that Jesus Christ is a avery avery avery very necessary partner in their endeavors A businessman told me he had occasion to call in an efficiency expert to find out what was interfering with the efficient operation of his business The efficiency expert put his bis finger on a certain m man n and nd said Get rid of him The Theman Theman Theman man was discharged and the efficiency of the business in increased increased increased in- in creased one hundred and fifty percent This was very interesting but it seemed to me that this businessman had not properly solved his problem All he IB had done was to get rid of it If he had a machine that was ivas not working satisfactorily he would have it fixed I He HeI but he did not know had lad a man who was not working right but right how low to correct him nor did he make any effort to find out jut how to do so Instead he just cast him out Another business had a man who was causing trouble This company too brought in an efficiency expert who re re- erred to himself as a human engineer He brought his Christian insights to bear upon this individual with the result that hat the inefficient employee showed a decided improvement I In En n fact his efficiency y increased four hundred The I efficiency of the business increased in proportion The general public would be astounded to know how many nany many times businessmen in perplexity refer employees to lo o the minister They say We have done all we we can with this his man or this woman Wont Won't you apply the rehabilitation of f spirit spiritual al techniques He is sensitive jealous difficult Ve We are not sure of his honesty we cannot entirely depend upon him Fix him up wont won't you so we can use him Please show how him how to realize and release his real abilities So he the requests come to us ministers from business and industry Recently I received an invitation to address a national convention of a great industry The letter of said in n part More Moie and more we are aie the tremendous importance importance im- im ortance of the human equation in our industry We have todo tolo to todo do lo something about people to increase their efficiency So we ve want you a minister who deals in human efficiency to speak peak to the leaders in our industry While reading the Bible the other day I had a curious experience The last sentence in the last column of a page pagen in n the Gospel of Matthew read as follows Follow v me m mb and andI I will make you On turning over the page I found of course ourse that the sentence sentence- went on to read fishers of men The whole sentence is true So is the fragment of this sn- sn tence ence because this is one of the greatest truths ever promulgated promulgated gated namely get a man to follow Jesus Christ truly wholeheartedly whole whole- heartedly and completely and no matter how miserably he lw previously has failed he will acquire the gre great t art of knowing and ind releasing himself Jesus Christ will make ake him Yes you can attain the maximum of efficiency if you will vill but avail yourself of the services of the greatest efficiency engineer Jesus Christ I 4 u 0 Pity the poor lads lad's in Washington A commission of employees reports that government workers worry over loyalty loyal loyal- ty investigations feel insecure when Congress thinks of slashing the number of jobs and are frustrated because the public regards them as inefficient Strangely enough no mention mention mention men men- tion is made of the fact that the the government payroll has increased steadily in spite of discouraging conditions increased steadily in spite of discouraging conditions Tulare Calif Daily News 1 |