Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-14


country through the religious rectifica
ton of it. Labor is honored and re-
warded in proportion as a community
is Christianized. Why is it that our
smallest coin in this country is a pen
ny, while in China it takes a half
dozen pieces Of coin or a dozen to
make one 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 a penny for anything in this
country. They must pay that which
is worth only the sixth part or the
twelfth part of penny. Heathenism
and iniQuity and infidelity depress ev-
erything. The gospel Of Jesus Christ
elevates everything. How do I &C
count for this? J account for it with
the p1aine=st philiS5phy. The religion
of Jesus Christ is a democratic re-
ligion. 1t tells the employer that he
is brother to all the operatives in the
tablishment-madeb 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 kingdom of heaven.
If you have the grace Of God in your
heart, you will enter heaven.
Let me LAY a wsrd to all capitalists.
Be your own executors. Make invest
ments for eternity. Do not be like
some Of those capitalists 1 know who
walk around among their employees
with a supercilious air or drive up to
the factory in manner which seems
to indicate they are the autocrat Of
the universe, 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 smirch-
ed hand and have their broadcloth in
jured. Be a Christian employer. Re-
member 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 in New
York, leaving in his will $4,000 900,
yet giving how much for the church of
God; how much for the alienation Of
human suffering? He gave some mon
ey little while before he died. That
was we'll, but in all this will of $4O,-
100000 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, nations cry
ing out for the bread of everlasting
life. A man in a will giving forty
millions Of dollars and not one cent to
God. 1t is a disgrace to our ciyi1iza-
ton. Or, as illustrated in a letter
which [ have concerning a man who
departed this life, leaving between
five and eight millions of dollars. Not
one dollar was left, this writer says, to
comfort the aged workmen and work
women, not one dollar to elevate and
instruct thNAhundreds of pale children
who stified their childish growth in
the heat and clamor of his factory. Is
1T strange that the curse of the chill
dren of toll follows such ingratitude?
How we'll could one of his many mil
lions have been disbursed for the pres
ent and the future benefit of those
whose hands had woven literally the
fabric of the dead mans princely for
tune. Oh, capitalists of the United
States, be your own executors. Be a
scale. God has made you a steward.
Discharge your responsibility.
A Word to Labor.