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

what is 4" ust and equal? ;" This danger i,
removed, and the correct working of the rule
secured, if we give due heed to the motive
by which il is followed" knowing that ye
also have a master in heaven" God calls
our attention to the fact that he is our mas
ter; rs We treat our servants, We may eX-
pect that our master will treat us -. with
whatsoever measure We mete, it shall be mea
sured TO YOU again" Can We conceive of q
more efficacious means of securing correct
Judgment on the rights Of our servants than
is furnished by the thought thus presented
before us Suppose you were placed in a
condition of alternate authority and servi-
tude--that each day of power was followed
by day of subsection, and that you learned
that, on each alternate day which you spent
as a servant, you were TO be treated exactly
as YOU had treated your servants on the day
preceding, would it not make you impartial
and just! Would you not honestly seek TO
ascertain your duties to your servants, and
most scrupulously fulfil those duties! But,
if this supposition ,rere realized, your mo-
tive 10 dilgent inquiry and Conscientious con-
duct on this subject would not Be as por6r-
ful as IL is noe. 1t is not your condition
on alternate days of your earthly "a isfence,
but your condition throughout eternity,
which is 10 be affected by your conduct To-
wards your servants. After short master
ship here on earth, you are to 60 up to your
master IN heaven, and there receive accord
ing 10 what you have given the principles
on which YOU have acted must there be ap-
piled 10 yourself; and how infinitely more
mOnlentous in their consequences upon Us,
for welfare or for wo, will be the application
of those principles there! When, therefore,
we fail TO render 10 our servants the full
amount of what is A." ust and equal, ii is
evidently no gnn TO us, but nost serious
loss. Ii We are wise, We will not, III deci-
ding upon what is due to our servants, lean
TO what might be considered our own inter
est, by men who look not beyond the grave
IN their calculations of profit and loss. nor
will We be- content with a slight and hasiy
consideration OF the subject, knowing that
mistakes arising from inattention or pielu-
',
nor screen us from their punishment.
Let me entreat YOU, my beloved brethren, TO
make this motive practical--dwell upon it, I'M
til its influence habitually affects your conduct.
Realize TO yourselves the solemn fact, that each
of Us has a master, ana that as IRE deal ruth our
servants so riH he deal ,eifa us. DO we wish
him to do for us, his imperfect and unworthy
servants, more than we feel that we deserve
| And shall We not do for our servants. as We be-
| seech him to do for u.s. Can we expect him to
forgive our debt Of ten thousand talents, yet eS
act vigorously the hundred pence which are due
from our poor fellow being 10 ourselves Let
us remember that il is our master who hath
warned us that he shall have Judg ment with
out mercy, who hath showed no mercy" and
| let determine so to treat our DEPENDENTS, a.
We ask Him TO treat US.
| We will now endeavor 10 show, in some
points, what this Precspt, "gve unto your ser
wants that which IL juSt and equal" would re-
qure under our peculiar circumstances. The
duties enjoined by this general rule must vary.
as we limited above, with the peculiar nature of
the servitude. The master who owns slaves,
| owes them far more than is due from the master
who hires free laborers to those employed 10 do
his work; for our bOndmen are in great mea-
| sure dependent upon us for their happiness in
! time and eternity--the laws Of the land giving
absolute disposal Of all the proceeds of their la
Dor. The obligations must correspond necessa-
rily with the extent of their dependence and the
| absoluteness Of our power.
| LIST. Ii is the duty of every master 10 form the
habit Of feeling that has servants are parfakers
Of the same flesh and blood, and brethren Of the
same great family Nth himself--and the HABIT o.
Speaking and acting forards them as this rier Of
his connection cith them rould require.
One of the natural and Pernicious consequent
ces of arbitrary power is, that it begets feeling
in It's possesscr towards his subjects such could
only properly erist if ne and they belonged 10
different species. In Europe, during the middle
ages, the seris were regarded by their lords as
| beings of an inferior order. The Russian noble
entertains new the same feeling towards his
| bondsmen, though their skin is Of the same col
or with his own. Ii is no difference in the skin,
| as We sometimes imagine, nor in the shape OF
the features, which produces in us this feeling
of fancied superiority Of nature; for the feeling
rises in the mines OF none but those who
have seen the black man in bondage. II we
would discharge our duties to our servants, We
must counteract and change this feeling; il
We wish to act rightly we must neither think
a hs, nor eutn feel lie. We must reflect
| upon the facts annou need to US in the Ho-
Nv Scriptures, that "God has made Of one
blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face
of the EARTH" and that We art all sprung from
| Adam as our common ancestor. We should OBJ
serve that they possess all the feelings which
| prove a common nature with ourselves the
same susceptibilities of hatred and love, JOY and
| sorrow, pleasure and pain-the same capacities
| Of memory and judcmen nj, reason and conscience.
| Still more are to impress upon ourselves the
fact that they are our brethren, when we remem-
| Der that the same gracious God, whom we es-
TEEN it Il privilege to call our Father, aetnori-
edges them equally nifh ourselves as his children
and exhibits for them the same affection; that the
| same Saviour who has redeemed us by his pre-
cious blood recognizes them as a part Of his Pur-
chased inheritance; and that they are to ENJOY
| throughout eternity, in full concert with our
selves, the thrones and the crowns, and the harPs
and the mansions which God has promised TO hi
redeemed people. aye are all the children o
God by faith in Christ Jesus. There IL neither
Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free
for We are all one in Christ Jesus"
When, by such views, we free ourselves from
that contemptuous feeling, which their servil'
condition tends to generate, and form the hxet
habit Of regarding them as our brethren, on
language in addressing them, and our conduc
towards them will naturally conform to our inn
proved sentiments.
I'd. II is our duty TO suppress and eradicdf
another upmarranfed and Dernieio"s feeling tina
| naturally springs up III us, MS yeets"S e'"' W"
! servants mere made for US.
Our cattle, our houses, and all our pro
perry, we regard as designed for our us
the very end and aim of the existence O
these objects is for our service, for this sci
vice God created them. Now, when W
class fellow man as part of our property
we are exceedingly apt to regard him
we are in the habit of CORRECTLY regardin