Top bartender's Bible Maxims (1884) . . . 1. Be neat and clean in dress. 2. Keep your bar in the same condition. 3. Keep your tumblers free from finger marks and grease. 4. Have your bottles carefully labeled and in the proper places. 5. Should you keep a fancy bar, see that the various articles are arranged to the best advantage. 6. Keep your mirrors like polished gold, for they are the most noticed of all adornments. 7. See that the floor is well-kept and the spittoons in such places that the customers will not fall over them. 8. Be polite and attentive, but not intruding. 9. Know when to talk and when to keep silent. 10. Avoid profanity in yourself; do not notice it in others. 11. Drink as little as possible behind your own bar. 12. Keep good liquors for a pure trade. 13. Never overcharge a stranger. 14. Do not encourage arguments and when in one be noncommittal. 15. Be as honest to yourself as to your customers.
Albert Barnes was an American theologian, born at Rome, New York, on December 1, 1798. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey (1825-1830), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1830-1867).
He was an eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his expository works, which are said to have had a larger circulation both in Europe and America than any others of their class.
Of the well-known Notes on the New Testament, it is said that more than a million volumes had been issued by 1870. The Notes on Job, the Psalms, Isaiah and Daniel found scarcely less acceptance. Displaying no original critical power, their chief merit lies in the fact that they bring in a popular (but not always accurate) form the results of the criticism of others within the reach of general readers. Barnes was the author of several other works of a practical and devotional kind, including Scriptural Views of Slavery (1846) and The Way of Salvation (1863). A collection of his Theological Works was published in Philadelphia in 1875.
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