Arthur Nash (businessman)  Arthur Nash (June 26, 1870 – October 30, 1927) was an American business man, author, and popular public speaker who achieved recognition in the 1920s when he determined to run his newly purchased sweatshop on the basis of the Golden Rule, and his business prospered beyond all expectation. More than anything else, he was a man of faith. I do not mean faith in creeds or theology... I do not mean the faith that is a surrender to reason or a refuge for mental indolence and mediocrity. But I do mean the faith that Christ meant exactly what he said when he pronounced the Golden Rule as the rule and guide for the lives of men. Whenever there is anything wrong with human relationships in this world, it is because they are out of harmony with the law which was revealed by the Great Teacher of Galilee... "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." The eldest of nine children, Arthur Nash was born in 1870 in a log cabin on the Cloverleaf railroad, about five miles from Kokomo, in Tipton County, Indiana. His parents, Evermont "Mont" and Rachel Mitchell Nash, were strict Seventh-day Adventists, sending their son to religious school when he was thirteen years old. Nash graduated from high school at Greentown, Indiana, and then from the Adventist Theological Seminary in Battle Creek, Michigan. Ordained in 1894, he subsequently took a position as an instructor at the Adventist school for ministers and missionaries in Detroit. Soon after he began teaching in Michigan, Nash befriended an elderly woman, Agnes "Mother" d'Arcambal, founder of The d'Arcambal Home of Industry for Discharged Prisoners, visiting her every week for eight or nine months. The elders of Nash's church informed him that d'Arcambal had rejected Adventist teachings years earlier. They pressed him to admit that according to Adventist doctrine which forbade Sunday worship, d'Arcambal, who had been holding Sunday services at the home, could not, therefore, be saved in death. Nash reacted by abandoning his faith, his family, and his religious ambitions, becoming a train hopping hobo, itinerant worker, and conflicted atheist. In his autobiography, "The Golden Rule In Business," Nash wrote; "For four or five years I wandered about the Middle West, doing odd jobs here and there...