who has watched some of the beautiful exemplifications of this relationship which have already grown into being on our shores.  I know of one large manufacturer, in a city not a hundred miles from this, who started to enter the ministry as a young man, but found to his intense disappointment that he had no aptitude for the work of a preacher, and turned his attention, on the insistent advice of those nearest to him, to active business.  He took up the business which his father had left him at his death and had left largely involved.  His first task was to pay off, dollar for dollar, all the debts which his father had bequeathed him, although in most instances they had been compromised by his creditors.  He then threw the energy of his being into development of the business, and, in the course of a few years, put it at the forefront of that line in his native city.  Into his business he breathed the spirit of love to God and man which had moved him originally to take up the work of the ministry.  He felt himself ordained to be what Carlyle would have called a “captain of industry.”  From the start he established personal, human, living relationships with his men.  He taught them by deed rather than by word to consider him their friend.  He was in the habit of calling in upon their families in a social and respecting way.  In all their troubles and adversities he trained them to counsel with him, and gave them the advantage of his riper judgment and larger vision.  In cases of exigency his means were at their service in the way of loans to tide them over the hard times.  His friends have seen, more than once, coming from his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in his employ, with tears streaming down their faces.  He had called them into the office on hearing of certain bad habits into which they had fallen, and so impressive had been his talk with them, that they left his presence with the most earnest resolves to do better in the future.  The result of all this relationship has been that during some fifteen years of the management of this large business he has rarely changed his men, and while strikes have abounded around him he has never known a strike.

I hold in my possession a letter from one of our leading iron-manufacturers in this country, who, in response to an appeal for participation in a charity of this city, gave answer that it had been a practice of the firm to invest a certain portion of their profits in developing the comforts of their workingmen, and that they were obliged to limit their desire to give in charity in order that they might be able to build homes, club-rooms, reading-rooms, and all the et ceteras of a really civilized community in their work-village.  These are examples, in our own country, of what might be done.

One of the most beautiful models that I know of in modern history is furnished by the town to which reference has already been made—­the