“There is no use to disguise the fact, Mr. Maxwell, that I have been compelled to revolutionize the entire method of my business since I made that promise.  I have been doing a great many things during the last twenty years in this store that I know Jesus would not do.  But that is a small item compared with the number of things I begin to believe Jesus would do.  My sins of commission have not been as many as those of omission in business relations.”

“What was the first change you made?” He felt as if his sermon could wait for him in his study.  As the interview with Milton Wright continued, he was not so sure but that he had found material for a sermon without going back to his study.

“I think the first change I had to make was in my thought of my employees.  I came down here Monday morning after that Sunday and asked myself, ’What would Jesus do in His relation to these clerks, bookkeepers, office-boys, draymen, salesmen?  Would He try to establish some sort of personal relation to them different from that which I have sustained all these years?’ I soon answered this by saying, ‘Yes.’  Then came the question of what that relation would be and what it would lead me to do.  I did not see how I could answer it to my satisfaction without getting all my employees together and having a talk with them.  So I sent invitations to all of them, and we had a meeting out there in the warehouse Tuesday night.  A good many things came out of that meeting.  I can’t tell you all.  I tried to talk with the men as I imagined Jesus might.  It was hard work, for I have not been in the habit of it, and must have made some mistakes.  But I can hardly make you believe, Mr. Maxwell, the effect of that meeting on some of the men.  Before it closed I saw more than a dozen of them with tears on their faces.  I kept asking, ’What would Jesus do?’ and the more I asked it the farther along it pushed me into the most intimate and loving relations with the men who have worked for me all these years.  Every day something new is coming up and I am right now in the midst of a reconstruction of the entire business so far as its motive for being conducted is concerned.  I am so practically ignorant of all plans for co-operation and its application to business that I am trying to get information from every possible source.  I have lately made a special study of the life of Titus Salt, the great mill-owner of Bradford, England, who afterward built that model town on the banks of the Aire.  There is a good deal in his plans that will help me.  But I have not yet reached definite conclusions in regard to all the details.  I am not enough used to Jesus’ methods.  But see here.”

Wright eagerly reached up into one of the pigeon holes of his desk and took out a paper.

“I have sketched out what seems to me like a program such as Jesus might go by in a business like mine.  I want you to tell me what you think of it: 

“What Jesus would probably do in Milton Wright’s place as A business man”