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younger people in their employ. They must put forth greater efforts
to keep them alive spiritually, so that their young minds will not be
swayed by the worldly spirit with which they are constantly brought
in contact. The girls and the young women in our restaurants need a
shepherd. Every one of them needs to be sheltered by home influences.
There is danger that the youth, entering our institutions as believers,
and desiring to help in the cause of God, will become weary and
disheartened, losing their zeal and courage, and growing cold and
indifferent. We can not crowd these youth into small, dark rooms, and
deprive them of the privileges of home life, and then expect them to
have a wholesome religious experience.
It is important that wise plans be laid for the care of the helpers in
all our institutions, and especially for those employed in our restau-
rants. Good helpers should be secured, and every advantage should
be provided that will aid them to grow in grace and in the knowledge
of Christ. They are not to be left to the mercy of haphazard circum-
stances, with no regular time for prayer and no time at all for Bible
study. When left thus, they become heedless and careless, indifferent
to eternal realities.
With every restaurant there should be connected a man and his
wife who can act as guardians of the helpers, a man and woman who
love the Saviour and the souls for whom He died, and who keep the
way of the Lord.
The young women should be under the care of a wise, judicious
matron, a woman who is thoroughly converted, who will carefully
guard the workers, especially the younger ones.
The workers are to feel that they have a home. They are God’s
helping hand, and they are to be treated as carefully and tenderly as
Christ declared that the little child whom He set in the midst of His
disciples was to be treated. “Whoso shall offend one of these little
ones which believe in Me,” He said, “it were better for him that a
millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in
the depth of the sea.” “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little
ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold
the face of My Father which is in heaven.”
Matthew 18:6, 10
. The care
that should be given to these employees is one of the reasons in favor
of having in a large city several small restaurants instead of one large
one. But this is not the only reason why it will be best to establish