The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-03-12
Put YourseIrih His place.

er people, j, is more usual tonote the
favorable pecuniary circumstances.
which seem to surround them than
it is to observe their less fortunate
conditions. And, except among in
innate associates, the observation.
which people 10 this hurrying, work
ing-day world give to each other is
apt to be Of the most superficial ma
ture. Even friends are prone to con-
ceal from each other, as long as they
can, their actual wants and Difficult
ties. The friend must be very dear
indeed to whom ahigh.spired man is
willing. to confde his pecuniary ne,
cessitios. Such feeling sometimes
becomes aninfrmity, and leads those
to suffer in secret, who, by frank
speaking, could keep off distress, ev-
en- if they did not escape inconven-
fence. BY freespeech it is notmeant
tosubstitute the appeal. for charity
for the plea Of justice. Justice, ac-
cordedin the common transactions
oflife, would anticipate and prevent
much Of the distress which must, be.
made some time, not because the suf-
ferers wish to cry out but because
they canot helpik Hunger andcold
will force women and children to
weep, even though the head of the
house would have them freeze in dig
nifty and starvein silence.
"Put yourself in his placer in
hers-ought to be the motto Of every
comfortable and well-to.do individu-
al who require the services of those
who live BY their wages, or by small
business transactions. That they
labor or deal for what seem small
sums to the more prosperous, is eyi,
dence that they need those small
sums, and that they cannot afford to
wait for their compensation. 1t is a
good rule that the sun should not go
down on the unrequitted claims of
the laborer whose daily wages is his
daily bread.
If enough has been said to those
who ought to pay-who know they
ought-and are merely careless, but
by no means inhuman, then word
in another direction may not be
amiss. Let those who have debtors
richer than themselves lay aside
their troublesome pride, and firmly
but respectfully request payment
Itmay be q new revelation to many
people, but there are actually thous-
ands Of persons who are this day in
perplexity and distress because they
cannot nerve themselves to the duty
of asking for their money, for fear
that they may betray the fact that
they are in need of it. Why should
there be such feeling in the minor
business of life? The merchant or
factor who deals in thousands does
not scruple to say, 81 must have a
settlement tomorrow, for mustmeet
my own liabilities" If the man of
millions even may say this-and
does-why not the man to whom the
payment Of ten dollars, or five, or ev-
en- one, is an object? If the large ne
gotiator breads bank protest, may
not small dealer or laborer dread
the protest of his family against pri-
walton? And if the man of large
transactions demands, as an act of
common justice and simple right,
that those indebted to him should
protect him from mercantile discred.
it, has not the man and woman
whose dues are measured in small
sums of dollars, as good right to be
heard and answered when grocerand
baker and butcher are waiting for
their money?
1t is striking truth that he who
would benefit his fellow men must
walk by faith, sowing his seed in the
morning, and in the evening with
holding not his hand-knowing that
in Gods good time the harvest shall
spring up and ripen; if not for him.
self, yet for others, who, as they bind
the full sheaves and gather in the
heavy clusters, may, perchanbe, re,
member him with gratitude and set
up stones Of memorial on the feldsof
his toll and sacrifice. ..;s''.r.
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