Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-06

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of the times is to create wider and
wider chasm between them.
EMPLOYERS AND employees,
They Should be Drawn Nearer to One
Another-The Employer Should be as q
Father to His Subordinate.
| Special Dispatch to the Register
NEW York, December ).
The usual large congregation assembled
at BROOKLYN Tabernacle this morning.
The opening hymn was:
"Ou, on an ocean all bound ess we ride.
| We're homeward bound.
! Tossed on the waves Of a rough, restless tide.
We're homewsrd bound"
DIR. Talmage first read list OF new
members 10 the church and then pro.
ceeded with the sermon.
There are many forms OF salulation
among the nationalities. The Moors
ride at fnli run toward a stranger as i!
to run him down, they stop suddenly
and fire a pistol over his heal. Persian
greets Persian with. "Is thy exalted
nigh condition good" The Turk greets
Turk with May thy shadow not be re-
moved from our head" Pole greets
Pole with the question, cart thou gay?"
| The ancient Roman met ancient Roman
with the greeting, "Be healthy, be
strong" In my text We have the sau'
tation OF wealthy employer TO his hard.
working employees. BOaz came out
among the reaptrs. He might have
said: "Why do YOU not set up those
sheavess traight? Why do you let that
grain be loose? You do not know how
to swing Your sickle? Hello, you lazy
man, what are YOU sitting down there
ioroo" No; there were kindness. cour-
tesv, prayerfuness, geniality and sym.
patny in his sagtalion. Boaz came
from Bethlehem, and said unto the
reapers "the Lord be with thee" And
as Kindness begets kindness and polite
ness evokes po!iteless, the reapers an
swered: "The Lord bless thee
The whole tendency oil our times is to
make the chasm between the employer
and employee wider and wider, to make
the employee feel somehow that the
success OF the capitalist is wrong to
himself, and to make the capitalist feel
the
Employee is a Mere Beast OF Burden.
or II paw You so much money for so
much drudyery." II is so many pieces
of silver for so many beads OF sweat; the
bridge OF sympathy is broken down at
both ends. Mr.. Carlyle describes part
of the feeling in al allesory when he
saws: "Pu,son, OF s.. Dolly-C nder-
shot, buccaneer like, says - his men:
Noble spinners, this is the hundredth
thousand we have gained, wherein
mean TO dwell and plant my VINEYARDS.
The hundred thousand il mine, the
three.and sixpence daily was yours.
Adieu, noble spinners! Drink my
health with this groat which give you
over and above" What We now most
neei for the bettarment OF ali is to re.
build the bridge of sympathy. | put
INV trowel to one OF the abuttments to.
dsy. On other occasions, l have adj
dressed employees: to-day | preach the
first sermon OF my life to employers rs
such
Let me say to the commercial firms,
10 the owners OF factories, to master.
builders, TO capitalists, to shop overs, to
housewives, it is
Your Duty to be Interested
in tie entire welfare OF your subordi.
mates. Years ago some one gave three
rules ior becoming millionaires. First,
you must devote Your life to the getting
and keeping OF other mems earnings.
Secondly. you must care little or moth
ing about other mems wants or suffer
ings or disappointments. Thirdly, you
mus, not mind that great wealth involves
many Others poverty. But few men
would have the heart to adopt these
rules before hand In order to worldly
success | take it Tor granted thai you
all want 10 do your whole duty to the
men and women in your service. irs',
nav them all the wages your business
will afford them. You have a right to
take into consideration the extreme
pains.taking through which you estao-
lished your stere or run Your factory,
and that YOU take all the risk and your
emplove no risk and that there may he
sudden reyerses of fortune, SINE new
Invention that shall make your ma
chinery useless or some new taritt that
may fatally set back your establishment
Take q matters into consideration and
then paw all that is reasonable. Do not
be too ready to cut down wages. As lar
as possible pay promptly and pay, all.
There is some emphatic Bible teaching
on this subject. Malachi-"l will be
swift witness against the sorcerers and
against the adul,erers and against
those that oppose the hireins IN
his wages. Leviticds-The wages
OF him that is hired shall
not abide with thee all night until the
morning" Colossians-"MasteIs give
unto your servants that which is Just
and equal, knowing that ye also have a
master in heaven" You see it is not
merely a matter between you and your
workman, but between you and God.
Do not say, III you do not like 1t here
90 and do better elsewhere, when you
know he cannot get any better place. IL
would be we'll for you TO 90 at least once
a year and
See all Your Clerks aud Workmen
al their houses. That is the only way
YOU can understand their wants ION
will End some OF them with bind pa
rent or sick sister they are tryingto sup
port, You will find some OF the young
men in a room without fire in winter; or
sveltered with the heat in some lily
,.n,;la,o3 snartment in the summer.