The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-24

will was directed to him as well as to us
We cannot degrade our servants into tn,
mere instruments of our Qualifications; W.
cannot conceive of them as creatures mere
| y existing for our interests, without miser
ably failing IN our most important duties
| towards them. Our servants have higher
relations than those which they sustain to
wards us, they have more important dutie,
than those which they owe to us, they have
more valuable interests than those which
we can affect. Their first and main dut,
is to serve that God who is their master ana
ours-that God who has not given up his
rights in them when he has placed them by
his providence partially under our control
and protection-that God who will hold
| them as well as us accountable for not
yielding him the honor and obedience which
ne claims as his due. Since it is their frs,
and great duty to serve their Lord, we are
to remember that so far as we have power
over them, it is our first duty TO them TO in.
duce them 10 engage in this work and to aid
them in its proper and full performance
3. II IS the duty of a master 10 see to
The religious improvement of his servants,
not only by furnishing them nih all he
means IF instruction, bit by using all dill.
sence an inducing them 10 0raH themselves
Of those means We are not to think that
our work is done, on this point, when we
merely permit our servants 10 enjoy the
means OF grace. The moralist and the
christian onl y attempts 10 defend the prac.
tee OF holding human beings in bondage,
on the ground that they are incompetent 10
govern themselves and manage their own
interests successfully. If this principle
warrants us in keeping them under control,
IL at the same time binds Us to exercise our
power to restrain them from evil and lead
them 10 happiness, and heaven. If they
need our guardianship, and We exercise
authority over them, We are under an obi.
CATION of the same kind towards them,
which we recognize ourselves as placed un-
der towards our children. Our children are
subject to our control because their ignor.
ance and immaturity Of powers disqualliy
them for selEgoyernment. If parent
should regard his authority simply as a
source of advantage to himself, and should
not Use il for promoting the best interests of
his child, he would be reprobaied by man
and condemned and punished by God
Guilt of the same kind, though somewhat
less in degree, is incurred by the master
who fails TO USE his power to promote the
highest interests of his servants. If you
use this power 10 secure their services 10
yourself, and do not Use il TO secure their
services TO God, YOU fail in your duty TO God.
who in his providence has placed these be-
ngs under your guardianship, that they
might be trained up to glorify him. If an
earthly parent had apprentced his child 10
you, that he ms ht be qualified for dscharg.
ing hereafter the duties of life with ability
and honor, would YOU not expect his dis
pleasure, if he should find that his son had
been worked exclusively for your own ben
eft, while YOU had neglected to give him
that instruction, and tram him TO those
habits, which alone would fit HIM for the
station which his lalhel had designed him to
occupy. NlulSt We iIol llltii - pttt inc us
pleasure of God, if We shall be found ne.
glecting to impart to his chilren, whom he
has placed under our control, those benefits
which he designed them 10 receive from
their connection with US, The design of
God in placing them in their present condi-
ton is not our gain, but their good and
Gods glory If we are permitted by him
to use their services, it is as compensation
for the pains and trouble which We endure
in training them for glory, honor, and i'm.
mortality. Thus in neglecting their reli-
gious improvement, We previously violate
our obligations towards the Great Jehovah.
who has placed portion of his immortal
children under our guardianship. We are
guilty, too, towards these our brethren, for
if the interests of their souls are matter OF
indifference to us, or of but slight and
transient conc ern, We fail TO act towards
them on the golden rule, that we should ''do
to others as We would that they should do
unto us, = and they must probably perish by
our neglect.
Ito be C0atinued)