Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-19

ployes with d supercilious air, or drive
up to the factory in manner which
seems to indicate they are the auto
Gratis of the universe with the sun and
moon in their vest pockets. chiefly
anxious when they go among labor
ing men not to be touched by the
greasy or smirched hand and have
their broadcloth injured. Be Chris
tan employer. Remember, those who
are under your charge are bone of
your bone and flesh of your flesh, that
Jesus Christ died for them and that
they are immortal Divide up your
estates, or portions 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 million dol
lars, yet giving how much for the
Church of God? How much for the
alienation of human suffering? He
gave some money little while before
he died. That was we'll; but IN all
this will of twenty million dollars,
how much2 One million? No. Five
hundred thousand3 No. One hun
Q1Oo uOl1dESG 4NO. W. w.
One cent? No. These great cities
grooming in anguish, nations crying
out for the bread of everlasting life.
A man in a will giving twenty mill
ions of dollars and not one cent to
Godl 1t is disgrace to our civiliza-
ton.
To laboring men: l congratulate
you on your prospects, l congratulate
YOU on the fact that you are getting
your representatives at Albany, at
Harrisburg and at Washington. This
will go on until you will have repre-
sentatives at all the headquarters, and
you will have full justice. Mark that.
I congratulate you also on the oppOr-
tunities for your children. Your chill
dren are going to have vast opportuni-
ties. congratulate you that you have
to work, and that when you are dead
your children will have to work. l
congratulate you also on your oppor-
tunities of information. Plato paid
one thousand three hundred dollars
for two books. Jerome ruined him
self, financially, by buying one vol
ume of ''Origen."
What vast opportunities for intelli-
gence for you and your childrenl A
workingman goes along by the show
window of some great publishing
house, and he sees a book that costs
five dollars He says: II wish l could
have that information; wish 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 day for the working
men of America as the day that is
coming.
But the greatest friend of capitalist
and toiler, and the one who will yet
bring them together in complete &C
cord, was born one Christmas night
while the curtains of heaven swung,
stirred by the wings angelic. Owner
of all things-all the continents, 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 after
ward around him the fishermen to be
his chief attendants. With adze, and
saw, and chisel, and AK, and in a car
penter shop showing himself brother
with the tradesmen.
Owner of all things, and yet on a
| hillock back of Jerusalem one day re-
signing everything for others, keeping
not SO much as a 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 CAPT
talist, and such a carpenter, all men
can afford to shake hands and wor-
ship.
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 animosities, and coun-
tenances which have glowered with
the predjudices and revenge of CEN
turtles shall brighten with the smile of
heaven as he commands: 'Whatso-
ever We would that men should do to
YOU, do We even so to them"