, 1886-05-30

factory where there are so many hostile to
religion. Ziethen, a brave general under
Frederick the Great, was a Christian. Fred
erick the Great was an infdel. One day
Ziethen, the venerable, white-haired general.
asked to be excused from military duty that
he might attend the holy sacrament. He
was excused A few days after Ziethen was
dining with the king and with many nota-
bles of Prussia, when Frederick the Great, in
a jorose way, said: well, Ziethen, how
did the sacrament of last Friday d.
gestT The venerable old warrior arose ard
said: For your majesty 1 have risked n
life many a time on the battle field, and for
your majesty | would be willing any time
to die; but you do wrony when you Insult
the Christian religion. You will forgive M
if !, your Old military servant. cannot bear
in silence any insult to my Lord and my
Saviour" Frederick the Great leapel t.
his feet. and he put out his hand and he
said; Happy Ziethenl forgive me, forgive
me. You will never be bothered again"
o, there are many being scofed at for
their ~religion, and l thank God there are
many III n as brave as Ziethen- Go to
heaven yourself, o., employerl Take all your
people with you. Soon you will be through
buying and selling. AMI through with mann
featuring ard building, and God will ask
you: Where are all those people over whom
you had so great influenced Are they herei
VIII they be herei" o, s%hipownersl into
what harbor will your crew saill After being
tossed on so many seas will they gain the
port OF heaveni o, bankers will those
young men who are running up and down
the long lines of figures, and handling the
checks and drafts, and handling the rolls OF
government Sc curities-are they keeping
their accounts right with Godi-the credit
account of mercies received aud the debt &c
count OF sins forgiven. o, you dry goods
merchant are those young men under your
care who are providing fabrics Of apparel
for head and hand and foot and back to go
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. into eternity o, you
merchant grocersl are those young msn that
under your care are providing food for the
bodies and families OF men, to go starved for
everf o. you manufacturer OF this I'm tied
Statesl with so many wheels flying, and so
many bands pulling, and so many new pat
terms turned out, and so many goods shipped
are the spinners, ara the carmen. are the
draymen, are the statesmen, are the watchers
of your estab. ishments working out every
thing but their own salvationi Can it be
that, having those peop'e under your care.
five, ten. twenty years. you have made no
everlasting impression for good on their inn
mortal soul I God turn us all back from
such selfishness, and teach us to live for
others and not for ourselves. Christ sets us
the example of sacrifice, and so do many of
his disciples.
One summer, in California, a gentleman
who had just removed from the Sand witch
Stands 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 disease, but all who die on that
island die of lepro,y. On one of the healthy
islands there was a physician who always
wore his hand gloved, and it was oftsp dis
cussed why he always hal a glove on that
hnnd under all circumstances.
One day this physician c me to the city
authorities, and he withdrew his glove, and
he said to the officers OF the law: ~ on see
on that hand a spot of the leprosy and that l
am doomed to die. | might hide this for a
little while and keep away from the isle Of
lepers; but | am a physician, and l can go
OH hat island and a minister to the suffer
ings of those who are farther gone in the
disease, and | should like to g now. 1t
would be selfish in me to stay amid these
luxurious surroundings when | might be of
so much help to the wretched. They, seeing
the spot of leprosy, of course took
the man into custody. He tade
farewell to his family AMI his friends.
1t was an agon sing farewell. He could
never see them again He was taken to the
isle of the lepers, and there wrought among
the sick until prostratei by his own death,
which at last came. Oll that was magnifi
cent self-denial, magnificent sacrifice. only
surpassed by that of Him who exiled Himself
from the hearth of heaven to this leprous
island of a world, that He might physician
our wounds and weep our griefs and die our
deaths. turning the isle of a leprous world
into a great blooming paradislcal garden.
Whether employer or employe, let Us catch
that spirit