Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-08-16

string of beads around the neck? We
never want to pay less than a penny
for anything in this country. They
must pay that which is worth only the
sixth part or the twelfth part of a pen
ny. Hea,henism and iniquity and inf
deity depress everything. The GOSPEL
of Jesus Christ elevates everything.
How do account for this? | account
for it with the plainest philosophy.
The religion of Jesus Christ is a demo
cratic religion. 1t tells the employer
that he is brother TO all the opera-
tives in the establishaent-made by
the same God. TO lie in the same dust
and 10 be saved by the Same supreme
mercy. Ii does not make the slightest
difference how much money YOU have
YOU cannot buy your way into the king
dom of Heaven. Ii you have the grace
of God in your heart you will enter
Heaven. SO you see it is n democratic
religion. Saturate our populations
with this gospel, and labor will be re-
spectful. labor will be rewarded. labor
Will be honored, capital will be Chris.
tan in all its behavior. and there will
be higher tides of thrift set in.
Let me say word TO all capitalists:
lie your own executors. Make invest
ments for eternity. Do not be like some
OF those capitalists l know who walk
around among their employees with n
supercllious air or drive up TO the fac
tory in a manner which seems TO indi-
cate they are the autocrat of the uni
verse, with the sun and moon in their
nOeEafS oh
go among laboring men not TO be
touched by the greasy or smirched hand
and have their broadcloth injured. BE
Christian 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 il
DO not get out of the world like that
man who died in New York leaving i'm
ms Will $i0.0o0,000, yet giving how
much for the church OF God. how mllcb
Tor the alienation of human sufTeriupp
lie gave some money little while be-
Iore ne died. That was well, but i'm all
this viii OF S40,CC0, COO how much? One
million? No. Five hundred thousand
NO. One hundred dollars? No. Two
cents? No. One cent? No. These
great cities grcaning in anguish. ma
tons crying cut for the bread OF ever
lasting life. \ man i'm "A will giving $40
ooO.o0O and not one cent TO God! II is
n disgrace TO our civilization. Or. as IL
lustrated in letter which | have con-
corning man who departed this life
leaving between 1000 900 and IS COO
COO. Not one dollar was left. this writer
says, Ia comfort the aged worl<1nen
and workwomen, not one dollar TO eIe-
waite and instruct the hundreds of pale
children who stiflcd their childish
growth in the heat and clamor of his
factory. Is il strange that the curse of
the children of toll follows such in
gratitude? How well could one of his
many millions have been dsbursed for
the present and the future benefit of
those whose hands had woven literally
the fabric Of the dead mans princelv
fortune. O capitalists OF the United
States, be your own executors! BE a
George Peabody, if need be. on a small
scale. God has made you steward.
Discharge your responsibility.
My word is to all laboring men in this
country: ] congratulate you at your
frightening prospects. / congratulate
YOU on the fact that YOU are get
ting your representatives at Al
bany, at Harrisburg and at Wash
ington. have only to mention such
man of the past as Henry Wilson.
Ire shoemaker; as Andrew Johnson.
the tailor; as Abraham Lincoln. the
b'dtman. The living illustrations
easily occur TO you. This will 20 on
uhiII you have representatives at all the
headquarters, and you will have full
justice. Mark that. I congratulate YOU
also at the opportunities for your chill
dren. congratulate you that you have
10 work and that when YOU are dead
your children will have 70 work.
congratulate you also on your op-
Portunties for Information. Plato paid
$1,000 for two books. Jerome ruined
himself financially by buying ONE
volume Of "Origen." What vast opDor.
tunities for intelligence for YOU and
your children! a workingman coes
along by the show window of some
great publishing house. aud he sees =
book that costs five dollars. lie saws
i wish J could have that Information
J wish could raise five dollars for that
costly and beautiful book" A few
months pass on. and he gets the valua
Of that book for - cents in pamphIet
mere never was such "A day for the
"orkngmen Of America as this dav and
the day that is coming.
J also congratulate you because vour
work is only PREDATORY and Introduc-
tors. You want the grace of Jesus
ChIIst. the Carpenter OF Nazareth. lie
toI'cd Himself, and he knows how 10
Sympathile with all who toll. Get His
grace I'D your heart, and you can sing
on the ScaHolding amid the storm. in
the shop showing the plane. in the mine
pun gin8 the crowbar, on shipboard
c''hU 'nB The ratlines. lie will make
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