Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11

Is mere To-Day. lie may look Ike All othSi
young men, but God and his mother know he
is hero. Do not treal on him, do not swear
at him and do not send him on useless and
senselass errand. Say to him good morning,
good evening" good bye You have that
mans destiny for two worlds in your keep
ing. Do not say: "If he does his work he'e
that is all have to do with him. God has
made you his guardian. You treat him as
YOU would like your boy 70 be treated II you
were dead Ny soul sometimes boils with
utter indignation as / sea the way employees
are treated in these cities and elsewhere
May God pity them and God keep them.
There are hundreds of people here
who know what l speak about, and the
truth of what speak. All, my friends, go
further than this. Look after the positive
spiritual welfare of your employees. You
have their int'rests in your hands. You
can address them as no one else can They
are bound to respect yoI You have the
keys of the establishment Now, you go
around among them illustrating the beauty
of the Christian religion. You go among
the mill hands, you 60 among the factory
can tell They know. You go
around with that spirit among your
employees, aud the wheel of fortune will
turn and you will be a pauper, AMI your
daughter will go TO the workhouse, and your
son will die on the scafold. But you go
among YOUR employees in kindly, loving, sym
thetic. Christian spirit and say to this young
man with pale cheeks and hacking cough:
''You had better go away for two or thteJ
days, or week, and get a breath
of the hills; get fixed up and then
come back. Your wages will go right
on. You hardly are able to stand up. just
go off for few days When young man
loses his moth,r do not dem IN that he come
back the next day after the funeral. Give
of 20, ,f,l,
he will never get over. At the foot of this
pulpit, when l came to the close OF a
service years ago, man stood,
a young man, very pale. He said:
This is the first day l have been out
for a month" "Ah,n l said, II am sorry
you have been sick" YES" he said, 81
heard you preach a sermon on restitution
about month ago. 1 had taken money!
from my employer and my conscience
wrought upon me 50 nightly that | have
been down sick" l said: How much did
you take of the money!" He said so
much. l said "Have you pat any of it
back" ooh, yes he said, 81 have paid it
nearly all back If | live a month l would
pay it all back; but what W Duld become of
me in the month before got the money paid
back if l should die2 What would you ad-
wise me to dog | said; "Are you trying
right hard to pay it back' He said:
Eyes, l have paid it almost all back
and in a month l know l shall
pay it all back What shall do' If I
should go to my employers and tell them
they are hard meu-I know they would thro
me out and disgrace me and my wife and my
little baby. What shall do" said: you
are sure you will pay it backp eyes, l have
il nearly all paid back You are sure you
can pay TINA month"; Eyes" Isaid: "You
go on and ray it back. Live with the utmost
economy until you pay it back. You willnot
RI in tbic 1,oppfh-uo,1 will - About
month after, the man stood at the foot of the
back to his cheek He said: at is all right,
l have paid it all back / said: 81 knew you
would. | knew the Lord would let you
live until you raid it back" Oh, dc not
be hard Do not put temptations in the
way of young men. Do not have money
lying around which shall tempt them in their
necessities. Do not have much cash in the
drawer. What would become of us if God
had not given us another chance? Now,
you give that young man another
chance Do not be hard on those
who have fallen. Give them another
chance. Do not spring on them like hyena.
Do not call in the police. Take that young
man who has done wrong; take him home;
take him home; give him another chance.
has done wrong who will never do
wrong again if you will only give him
chance. We can affor1 to give others a
chance We would have been in perdition
before this if God had not given us another
chance, aye, ten thousand chances. | look
into the faces of great many employers
to-day, and | beseech you not only go
to heaven W urself, but take your EN-
ployes with you. In some establishments it
is almost impossible for a young man to be
a Christian Oh how they scott at him, how
thaIr da1.ida him how thnV caripatura him
You go into your store, employer, and put
your foot down on such imposition. General
Zethon was one of the old military c2mman
ders of Frederick the Great He was
Christian. Frederick the Great was an
intidel. One day this old Cen
eral, white haired, asked to be e1-
cused from military service for little
while because he wanted to sit at the Holy
Communion, He was granted absence. A
few days after, General Zethon, the old COM
mander, was dining with the King and other
notables. and the King loosely said
''Well, Zethon, how did the Holy
Communion last Friday digest" Old
General Zethon, his hair as white as
the driven snow, arose and said; Your
Majesty, | have imperiled my life hundred
times on the battle field for you. and there
has not been time in the last thirty years
when l would not have fought for your Ma
iesty; but l think you do wrong when
you insult the Christian religion, and
forgive me, your Majesty, your
old communication l cannot sit in
silence and hear you insult my Lord
Jesus" King Frederick the Great leaped
from his seat, threw out his hand, and said;
Forgive me, father; you will never be
bothered again" There are in the estab-
lishments of these cities men who are
just as brave as that old General They
are trying to serve God, but what
a time they have of i'll What
derision and what caricature come
upon them. | know young men in New
York and Brooklyn who have been most out
rageously maltreated by employers and by
their associates just because they loved the
Lord Jesus and were thorough Chris
tans. Oh, the time will come when
you will be done with your buying and
selling and manufacturing and building, and
God will ask you about those people who
have been in your employ. He will say:
care they here; will they be hereM Oh,
shipbuilders, where will the crew be at the
last? Will they come into the celestial har-
Dor! Those men who have been tossed on
the seas, will they come into the haven
Of rest! Oh, ye bankers, arc those
men who ara running up and
down the long lines of figures, and handling
the drafts and the checks and the govern
ment securities, are they keeping their ac-
counts right with God? The credit account
of mercies received and the debit account Of
sins pardoned. Oh, We drygood merchants,
are those young men who are dealing
ont fabrics OF apparel for tho foot,
the hand, the back-are they to
go unclothed into eternityi Oh, grocery
merchants, shall your young men who are
dealing out the fabrics, dealing out the food
the foo for the boly AMI the food for thu
community, shall they at last stlrve to
death! Oh, manufacturers, with so many
wheels flying and 50 many bands
pulling, and 50 many new patterns
turned out, and so many goods shipped
what are the car men, what are the spinnerS,
what are the draymen to do' What Will be
their destiny in the eternal worldl l put