The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-06-03

| they may Be sixty o. SEVENTY -psrs o. age.
/ xrow Just bow 3 boy feels between ter and
twenty, and bow 9 man feels between
| twenty and sixty. They have DOT forgot
tee IT, Those wealthy employers we're not
/ originally let down oDs % Heaven with
/ pulleys Of silk IN wicker he sket, satin
lined. famed BY chsrabic wings. They
started in rouzhes; cradle, OF whose
I rocksr misfortune had put bar violent
foot ami tipped them into tie cold
world. Those men are sympsths etc With
bows
I Bat VOC are not onlv g be kind 70 thoss
who are nisz yoa-Christisnlv kind-but
YOU are also 20 see that voGr boss work.
man ami your head clerks and vcur agents
and you- overseers IN the s.n-ss are kind
T 70 those under them Sometimes . man
will get lit;le hr e authority in 8 store
or IN q factory. and while they are very
courteous 70 you. the capitalist. or 90 you,
Z the head man Of the frm. thsv are most
. brutal in their tTestIeu: II ID ose under
I them. God ouly know what some OF the
lads suffer in the cellars and in The lofts
+ OF some Of our great ss:stl shDents.
4 They have 10 one 70 appeal to
/ TIE time will come when their
arm viii be strong. ani .hey csn det.ad
themsel yes. but not NV. Alas. for some
Of the cssh bows. and TIE msssen ger bows,
and he boys that sweep the store Alas.
for some # them, Vow YOU capitalist:
you, the head man Of The firm. must look,
supervise, see those all srouni you, inTes.
gate eli BENEATH yo1-
Then If. . moving around your factory,
Or mil. Or harn. o. store. vo1 are insxora-
tie With Young men, God viii remember
Il. Some day the wheel Of fortune will
turn and ysu VII De 9 psGDer. and your
daughter WI - 70 the work ouse. and
your scn vii de On tbe scaEJ ID. II. IN
moving your young men. ynu Sc one with
al omlngUs pallor 0. cheek, D. you hear
him coughing behind the counter. say TO
hin
say hon= dav Or two s1d rest. or
70 on, and breathe tie breath Of the
hLl."
II his r2tber de. % n7t IN nj that
n ne day after ne funeral he Re in the
SIRE. Civ Inn az least week 70 get
over tia. wa.ca % vii never get over.
Employers, urge upon your employees
atovs al . positive religious life. You
laughed a., " sc5Hed az or j-srei at.
You he'd the KEYS Of the establishment,
AMI ~ y5lr position you demand
reverence. Now. u--e al ,bg-- employees
into q religious life So IA from that
how is il, yo1ng men: Instead o. beng
caee-ei % the road - Heaven som You
are caricatured. AMI it j. hari thiuz for
you % keep your Christian integrity n
that store or factory where there are 50
many hostile - religion. Zie.hen, brave
General under Frederick the Great was a
Christian. Frede! * the Great was an in.
f1el. One day Ziethen. the venerable,
wnite-haired General. asked U be Excu sd
from military iu'y tina: ne might attend
th= holy sacrament. H was -xcused- 4
few day. after Ze:hsn was dining with
the KIN ami with many ngtatles Of Prus.
STA, when Frederick the Great, in j)coss
way. sad
well, Zie'h an, how did the sacrs nent
Of last Friday digest" Thg venerable old
warrior arose and said:
"For your Majesty have risked my life
many a time Oh the battlefield. and for
your Majesty would be willi9g any time
70 de: but YOU 10 wrong when YOU Insult
/ y
me if |. vour old military servant can not
bear in silence an Insult TO nv Lord and
Saviour" Frederick the Great leaped 70
MS feet, and he put out his hand and ne
said
Happy Ziethen forgive me, forgive
me. You will never be bothered again"
/ On there are many being scoffed at for
/ their rel gion! and thank God tha' there
are as many men as brave as ZetheD. Go
70 Heaven yourself. oh employer. Take
/ all your people with you. soon YOU will
/ he through buying and selling, and
( through with manufacturing ami build
/ ing. AMI God will ask you: "Where are
I all those people over whom you had so
/ great influence: Are they here: win
( they be here" Oh, ship-owner! into
/ what harbor will your crew sail: After
! being tossed on so many seas, will they
/ gain the port Of Heaven: On. banker!
! will those young men who are running up
/ AMI down the long lines of figures, and
! handling the checks and draft, and
handling the rolls Of Government
securities - are they keepin; their
accounts right with Goi-the credit &C.
( count Of merceS received and the debt &C.
{ count III SINS IpESlVen! III, lTN SODus
/ merchants are those young men under
! your care who are presiding fabrics Of ap-
I parel for head and hand. and foot and
back, TO 90 unclothed-uuclothed into
eternity: o, YOU merchant grocers, a 9
those Young men that under your care are
! prov ding food for the bodies and families
+ of men. 10 90 starved forever: o, you
manufacturers of these United States with
so many wheels flying, and so many
hands flying, and so many bands pulling,
and so many new patterns turned out,
and so many goods shipped-are the spin
ners, are the carmen, are the dray are
the statesmen, are the watchers of your es-
| Adjustments working out every thing but
| their own salvation! Can IL be that,
having those people under your care, five,
ten, twenty years, you have mad no
everlasting impression for 20 ID on their
| immortal souls: God turn US all back from
such selfshness, and teach US to live for
others and not for ourselves. Christ sets
US the example of sacrifice, AMI so DO many
of his disciples.
One summer, in California, a gentleman
who had just removed from tbs Sandwich
Islands told me this incident. He said
one of the Sandwich Islands is devoted to
lepers. People getting sick of the leprosy
on the other islands are sent to that isle Of
! lepers. They never come off. They are in
| different stages of the disease, but all who
die on that island die of leprosy. On one
of the healthy islands there was physi-
clan who always wore his hand gloved,
and it was often discussed why he always
had glove on that hand under all cir.