226 The Farm Boy's Interest in the Business 



If the boy's small beginning develops under his 

 care into a business of large proportions, the only 

 check or hindrance that the ethics of the case will 

 allow is that you treat with him on fair business terms, 

 just as you would with any good business man. 

 You may cause him to bear all his own personal ex- 

 penses and all the expense connected with the care 

 and development of his live stock or crop. Then the 

 matter of curtailing him must stop. And if the son 

 soon becomes able to buy you out, it is certainly an 

 affair to be proud of, not a thing to hinder by unfair 

 means. 



KEEP THE BOY'S PERFECT GOOD WILL 



It is a serious matter to lose the boy's confidence 

 or in any way break faith with him, even though 

 there be nothing about the place in which you can 

 make him take a business interest. As he grows to 

 maturity his own inner nature must gradually guide 

 him into the way of a calling and a divine calling 

 at that it may prove to be. It may not seem out 

 of place to quote the words of a religious teacher who 

 says: "Do you not know that if one's inner nature 

 points out clearly and inspiringly what he should 

 undertake for a life work, such thing may be regarded 

 as the Voice of the Divine One speaking faithfully 

 through the instrumentality of one of his own crea- 

 tures?" 



So it may prove at length that you will have to sell 



