Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-22

| IKE some capitalists / know who walk
around among their employees with a super
cilious air, or drive up to the factory In
manner which seems to indicate they are
the autocrats of the universe with the sun
and moon in their vest pockets, chiefly anx-
ious when they go among laboring men
not to be touched by the greasy or smirched
hand and have their broadcloth injured.
Be.a Christian employer. Remember those
who are under your charge are bone of
your bone and flesh of your fieshs. that
Jesus Christ died for them and that they are
immortal. Divide up your estates. or por-
tions of them, for the relief of the world
before you leave it. Do not go out of the
world like that man who died eight or ten
years ago, leaving in his will twenty mill
ion dollars, yet giving how much for the
church of Gods How much for the allevi-
alton of human sufferingi He gave some
money little while before he died. That
was well; but in all this will of twenty
million dollars, how muchs One millionf
No. Five hundred thousandS No. One
hundred dollarss No. Two centsf No.
One cent? No. These great cities groan-
ing in anguish, nations crying out for the
bread of everlasting life. A man in will
giving twenty millions of dollars and not
one cent to Godl 1t is disgrace TO our
civilization.
THE GAINS OF LABoRING MRN.
To laboring men: congratulate you ON
your prospects. congratulate you on The
fact that you are getting your representa-
tives at Albany, at Harrisburg and at
Washington This will go on until you
will have representatives at all the head
quarters, and you will have full justice.
Mark that. congratulate you also ON the
opportunities for your children. Your chill
dren are going to have vast opportunities.
congratulate you that you have to work
and that when you are dead your children
will have to work. congratulate you also
on your opportunities of information Plato
paid one thousand three hundred dollars
for two books. Jerome ruined himself,
financially, by buying one volume of Origen.
What vast opportunities for intelligence for
you and your childrenl A workingmAu
goes along by the show window of some
great publishing house and he sees book
that costs five dollars He says, II wish
could have that information; | wish I
could raise five dollars for that costly and
beautiful book" A few months pass on
and he gets the value of that book for fifty
cents in pamphlet There never was such
the day that is coming.
But the greatest friend of capitalist and
toiler, and the one who will yet bring them
together in complete accord, was born one
Christmas night while the curtins of
heaven swung, stirred by the wings an
gelic. Owner of all things-all the CONT
nents, all worlds, and all the islands Of
light. Capitalist of immensely, crossing
over to our condition. Coming into our
world, not by gate of palace, but by door
Of barn. Spending his first night amid
the shepherds. Gathering afterward around
him the fishermen to be his chief attend
ants. With adze and saw, and chisel, and
ak, and in carpenter shop showing him
self brother with the tradesmen. Owner
of all things, and yet ON a hillock back
of Jerusalem one day resigning everything
for others, keeping not so much as shekel
TO pay for his obsequies. By charity
buried in the suburbs of a city that had
cast him out. Before the cross of such q
capitalist, and such a carpenter, all men
can afford to shake hands and worship.
Here is the every mans Christ. None so
high but he was higher. None so poor
but he was poorer. At his feet the hostile
extremes will yet renounce their ami
mosities, and countenances which have
glowered with the prejudices and revenge
of centuries shall brighten with the smile
of heaven as he commands: whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them"