The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-08-18


of our pennies in value, so the Chinese
carry the cash, as they call it, like a
string of beads around the neck? We
never want to pay less than penny
for anything in this country. They
must pay that which is worth only the
sixth part or the twelfth part of pen
ny. Heathenism 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 demo-
cratic religion. 1t tells the employer
| that he is brother to all the opera
| tives in the stablishment-made by
| the same God, to lie in the same dust
and to be saved by the same supreme
mercy. 1t does not make the slightest
difference how much money you have,
you cannot buy your way into the king
dom of Heaven. If you have the grace
OF God in your heart you will enter
Heaven. So you see it is a 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
tian in all its behavior, and there will
be higher tides of thrift set in.
Let me say word to all capitalists
Be 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
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tory in manner which seems to indi-
cate they are the autocrat of the uni
verse, with the sun and moon in their
vest pockets, chiefly anxious 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 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 get out of the world like that
man who died in New York leaving in
his will $4O,000,OOO, yet giving how
AIuNl 1Oi i1lN NiIhlNI VI NOSI HOW IUuCll
for the alienation of human suffering?
He gave some money little while be-
fore he died. That was well, but in all
this will of $40 ,OOO, 900 how much? One
million? No. Five hundred thousand?
No. One hundred dollars? No. Two
cents? No. One cent? No. These
great cities groaning in anguish, ma
fi0oc h. -
lasting life. A man in a will giving $40-
100000 and not one cent to God! It Is |
a disgrace to our civilization. Or, as il
Illustrated in letter which I have con-
corning a man who departed this life
leaving between $5,o00,OO0 and $8,00o- |
600. Not one dollar was left, this writer
says, to comfort the aged workmen
and workwomen, not one dollar to ele-
vate and instruct the hundreds of pale
children who stifled their childish
growth in the heat and clamor of his
factory. Is it strange that the curse of
the children of toll follows such in
gratitude? How well could one of his
many millions have been disbursed for
the present and the future benefit Of
the fabric of the dead mans princely
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: l congratulate you at your
Frightening prospects. 1 congratulate
you on the fact that you are get
ting your representatives at AL
bany, at Harrisburg and at Wash
ington. 1 have only to mention such
a man of the past as Henry Wilson,
the shoemaker; as Andrew Johnson,
the tailor; as Abraham Lincoln, the
boatman. The living illustrations
easily occur to you. This will 20 on
until you have representatives at al the
headquarters, and you will have full
justice. Mark that. congratulate YOU
also at the opportunities for your chill
dren. l 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 op-
portunities for information. Plato paid I
81 300 for two books. Jerome ruined
himself financially by buying one !
volume of "Origen." What vast oppor-
tunities for intelligence for you and
your childrenl A workingman goes J
along by the show window of some !
great publishing house, and he sees a t
book that costs five dollars. He saws:
81 wish / could have that information.
I wish 1 could raise five dollars for that {
costly and beautiful book" A few {
months pass on, and he gets the value
of that book for 20 cents in a pamphlet. |
There never was such day for the /
of America as this day and '
the day that is coming. l
1 also congratulate you because your I
work is only predatory and introduc- a
tory. You want the grace of Jesus s
Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth. He |
toiled Himself, and He knows how to
with all who toll. Get His
grace in your heart, and you can sing .
IN the scaffolding amid the storm. in :
The shop showing the plane, in the mine :
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