The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-08-18
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carry the cash, as they call it, like
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 a PEN
nv. Heathenism and iniquity and inf
deity depress everything. The Gospel
of Jesus Christ elevates everything.
How do l account for this? l account
for it with the plainest philosophy.
The religion of Jesus Christ is demo-
cratic religion. 1t tells the employer
| that he is a 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 win 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
tian in all its behavior, and there will
| DC ulSueT tues Ol set lus
Let me say a word to all capitalists:
Be your own executors. Make invest
ments for eternity. Do not be like some
! of those capitalists | know who walk
/ around among their employees with
! supercilious 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
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
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 $40,Ooo,Ooo, yet giving how
much for the church of God, how much
| 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, ,00o,O how much? One
million? 80. Five hundred thousand?
| No. One hundred dollars? No. Two
cents? No. One cent? No. These
| great cities groaning in anguish, ma
tions crying out for the bread of ever
lasting life. A man in will giving $4o,-
| 100000 and not one cent to Godl It is
a disgrace to our civilization. Or, as IL
| Illustrated in letter which have con-
corning a man who departed this life
leaving between $5,oO0,O0O and $s,o00,-
600. Not one dollar was left, this writer
says, to comfort the aged worl1men
and workwomen, not one dollar to ele-
vate and instruct the hundreds of pale
children who stifed 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
those whose hands had woven literally
the fabric of the dead mans princely
fortune. o capitalists of the United
States, be your own executors! Be
George Peabody, if need be, on small
scale. God has made you a steward.
Discharge your responsibility.
My word is to all laboring men in this
country: l congratulate you at your
frightening prospects. I congratulate
you on the fact that you are get
ting your representatives at AL
| bany, at Harrisburg and at Wash
ington. I 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 go on
until you have representatives at all the
headquarters, and you will have full
| justice. Mark that. congratulate you
also at the opportunities for your chill
dren. 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
$1,000 for two books. Jerome ruined
himself financially by buying one
volume of "Origen." What vast oppor-
tunities for intelligence for you and
your children! A workingman goes
along by the show window of some
great publishing house, and he sees
| book that costs five dollars. He says:
81 wish | could have that information.
l wish could raise five dollars for that
costly and beautiful book" few
months pass on, and he gets the value
of that book for 25 cents in pamphlet.
| There never was such day for the
workingmen of America as this day and
the day that is coming.
l also congratulate you because your
work is only predatory and introdnc-
! tory. You want the grace of Jesus
Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth. He
| toiled Himself, and He knows how TO
sympathize with all who toll. Get His
| grace in your heart. and you can sing
on the scaffolding amid the storm, in
the shop showing the plane, in the mine
| plunging the crowbar, on shipboard
| clm bing the ratlines. He will make
the drops of sweat on your brow gilt
tering pearls for the eternal coronet.
Are you tired? He will rest you. Are
! you sick? He will give you help. Are
you cold? He will wrap you in the
mantle of His love. Who are they be-
fore the throne? "Ah," you say. their
hands were never calloused with TOLL"
Yes. they were. You say: Their feet
were never blistered with the long jour
ney." Yes, they were, but Christ raised
them to that high eminence. Who are
these? These are they that came out
of great tribulation and bad their
robes washed and made white in the
blood of the Lamb" That for every
Christian workingman and for every
| Christian WORKING woman will be the