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Stephan 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 cannot work tomorrow.” “Well, sir, if you cannot do as I wish, we can separate.” “I know that, sir,” said the young man; “I also know that I have a widowed mother to care for, but I cannot 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 person 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 entrust your money.”

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