Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-05-26

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| fication of the country. Labor is appreci-
| ated and rewarded Just in proportion as a
country is Christianised. Why is our small
est coin penny, while in China it takes
| six or a dozen pieces to make one penny, the
Chinese carrying in his own country the
''cash, as it is called, around his neck like
string of beads, dozen of these pieces
necessary to make the value of one of our
pennies? In this country for nothing do
we want to pay less than penny. In China
they often have to pay the sixth of penny
or the twelfth of penny. What is the
difference? Christianity. Show me COM
| munity that is thoroughly infdel, and will
show you a community where wages are
small. Show me community that is thor
oughly Christianised, and will show you
a community where wages are compare
lively large. How do l account for it? The
philosophy is easy. Our religion is de-
mocratic religion. 1t makes the owner of
the mill understand he is brother to all
the operatives in that mill. Born of the
same Heavenly Father, to lie down in the
same dust, to be saved by the same supreme
ulchre or in the judgment.
An engineer in New England factory
gets sleepy, and he does not watch the steam
gauge, and there is wild thunder of ex-
ploslon, and the owner of the mill and one
of the workmen are slain. The two slain
men come up towards the gate of heaven.
The owner of the mill knocks at the gate:
The celestial gatekeeper cries: 'Who is
there ?'' The reply comes: 81 was the own
er of factory at Fall River, where there
was an explosion just now, and | lost my
life, and l want to come in." ssWhy do
you want to come in, and by what right
do you come IMP" asked the celestial gate
keeper. "OhP' says the man, 81. employ
ed two or three hundred hands. I was
great man at Fall River" "You employ
ed two or three hundred men," says the
gatekeeper, ''but how much Christian
grace did you employ?" "None at ALL"
says the owner of the mill. 'Step back"
says the celestial gatekeeper; ''no admit
tance here for you" Right after comes
the poor workingman. He knocks at the
gate. The shining gatekeeper says" Who
is there?" He says: 81 am poor work
ingman; come up from the explosion in
Fall River; would like to enter" "What
is your right to come in here?" asks the
shining gatekeeper. The workman says:
81 heard that shining messenger came
forth from your world to our world to re-
deem it; have been bad man; 1 used to
wheel; used to be angry; | have done
great many wrong things, but confessed
it all to the messenger that came from
your country, and after l confessed it he
told me to come up here, and that you may
know have right to come, there is his
name on the palm of my hand; here is his
name on my forehead" Then there is
sound of working pulleys, and the gates
lift, and the workingman goes i'll. There
was vast difference between the funerals
at Fall River. The owner of the mill had
great funeral. The poor workman had a
small funeral The man who came upon
his own pompous recources was shut ont
of heaven. The poor man, trusting in the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, entered
heaven.
So you see it is democratic religion. 1
do not care how much money you have, you
have not enough money to buy your way
through the gate. do not care how poor
you are, if yon have the grace of God in
your heart, no one can keep you out. If
the shining gatekeeper smitten by some in
justice, should try to keep you out. all heav-
en- would fly from their thrones, and they
woula cry, 'tLet hirnfin! Let him inr' My
friends, you need to saturate our popula-
tions with the religion of Christ, and wages
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siderate, all the tides of thrift will set in. 1
have the highest authority for saying that
Goodness is profitable for the life that now
is. Itpays for the employer. 1t pays for
the employe. The religion of Christ came
out to rectify all the wrongs of the world,
and it will yet settle this question between
Labor and Capital just as certainly as you
sit thereand I stand here. The hard hand of
the wheel and the soft hand of the counting
room will clasp each other yet They will
clasp each other in congratulation. They
will clasp each other on the glorious morning
of the Millennium. The hard hand will
say, 81 ploughed the desert into garden;"
the soft hand will reply, 81 furnished the
seed" The one hand will say, 81 thrashed
the mountains;' the other hand will say, 81
paid for the fail" The one hand will say,
sI hammered the spear into pruning
hook" and the other hand will answer, 81
signed the treaty of peace that made that
possible" Then Capital and Labor will lie
down together, and the lion and the lamb,
and the leopard and the kid, and there will
be nothing to hurt or to destroy in all Gods
holy mount, for the mouth Of the Lord hath
spoken it.