The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-04

aged, how hungry they were, and how cold
and how tired they were, and though
they may be sixty or seventy years of age,
know Just how boy feels between ten and
twenty, and how q man feels between
twenty and sixty. They have not forgot
ten it. Those wealthy employers were not
originally let down out of Heaven with
pulleys of silk in wicker basket, SATIN
lined, famed by cherubic wings. They
started in toughest cradle, on whose
rocker misfortune had put her violent
foot AMI tipped them into the cold
world. Those men are sympathetic With
bows.
But you are not only to be kind tn those
who are under you-Christianlv kind-but
you are also to see that your boss work.
man and your head clerks and your agents
and your overseers in the stores are kind
to those under them. Sometimes q man
will get little brief authority in store
or in a factory. and whiLe they are very
courteous to you. the capitalist, or to you,
the head man of the firm. they are most
brutal Ia their treatment Of these under
them. God only knows what some of the
lads suffer in the cellars and in the lofts
of some of our great establishments.
They have no one to appeal to.
The time will come when their
arm will he strong, and they can defend
themselves. but not now. Alas, for some
of the cash bows, and the messenger boys,
aud the boys that sweep the store. Alas.
for some of them! Now, you capitalist;
you, the head man of the firm, must look,
supervise. see those all around you, inves.
tigate all beneath you.
Then IL, in moving around your factory,
or mill. or barn. or store, you are inexora-
tle with young men, God will remember
it. Some day the wheel Of fortune will
turn and you will be a pauper. and your
daughter will go to the work house, and
your son will die on the scaffold. If. in
moving your young men, you see one with
an ominous pallor of cheek. or you hear
him coughing behind the counter, say to
him:
''Stay home a day or two and rest. or
go ont and breathe the breath of tho
hills"
If his mother die, do not demand that
on the day after the funeral he be in the
store. Give him at least a week to get
over that which he will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your employees
above all a positive religious life. You
can do it. You are in a position not to be
laughed at, or scoffed at, or jeered at.
You hold the keys of the establishment,
and by your position you demand
reverence. Now, urge all those employees
into religious life. So far from that
how is it, young men? Instead of being
chesrsd on the road to Heaven some of you
are caricatured. and it is hard thing for
you to keep your Christian integrity in
that store or factory where there are So
many hostile to religion. Ziethen, brave
General under Frederick the Great, was a
Christian. Frederick the Great was an in.
fidel. 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 bies of Prus-
STA. when Frederick the Great, in q jocoss
way, said:
swell, Ziethen how did the sacrament
of last Friday digest:" The venerable old
warrior arose and said:
"For your Majesty have risked my life
manv time on the etield, and for
your Majesty would be willing any tiiue
to die; but you do wrong when you insult
the Christian religion. You will forgive
me if I, your old military servant, can not
bear in silence an insult to my Lord and
Saviour" Frederick the Great leaped to
his feet, and he put out his hand and he
said:
"Happy Ziethen! forgive me. forgivs
me. You will never be bothered again"
Oh. there are many heinz scoffed at for
their religion! and thank God that there
are as many men as brave as Ziethen. Go
to Heaven yourself. oh employer! Take
all your people with you. Soon you will
be through buying and selling. and
with manufacturing and build
ing, and God will ask you: "Where are
all those people over whom You had 8"
great influence? Are they here? viii
they be here:" Oh, ship-owner! into
what harbor will your crew sail? After
being tossed on so many seas. will thew
gain the port of Heaven: Oh. banker!
will those young men who are running up
and down the long lines of figures, and
handling the checks and drafts, and
the rolls of Governments
securities are they keeping their
accounts right with God-the credit &C.
count of mercies received and the debt ar.
count of sins forgiven: Oh, dry goods
are those young men under
your care who are providing fabrics of APP
parel for head and hand. and foo: and
back. to go nclothed-unclothed into
eternity? o. you merchant grocers! are
those young men that under your care are
food for the bodies and families
Of men, to go starved forever: o, you
of these United States. h
so many wheels flying, and so many
hands flying, and so many bands pulling,
and so many nav patterns turned out,
and 50 many goods shipped-are the spin.
ners, are the carmen, are the draymen. ara
the statesmen, are the watchers Of your IS.
working out every thing but
their own salvation? Can it be that,
having those people under your care. five,
ten, twenty years, you have made no
everlasting impression for good on their
immortal souls: God turn US ali back from
such selfishness, and teach US to live for
others and not for ourselves. Christ sets
US the example OF sacrifice, AM SO do many
of his disciples.
One summer, in California, a gentleman
who had just removed from the Sandwich
Islands told me this incident. He said
one of the Sandwich Islands is devoted to
lepers. People getting sick of the leprosv
on the other islands are sent to that isle of
lepers. They never come off. They are in
different sta ses of the disease. but all vino
die on that island die OF leprosy. On one
of the healthy islands there was physi-