The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-09

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 l 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 democratic
religion. Saturate our populations
with this gospel, and labor will he re-
spectful, labor will be rewarded, labor
will be honored, capital will be Chris
tian in all it's 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 a
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 broadoloth 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 $4O,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, 900, 900 how much? One
million? 10. Five hundred thousand
No. One hundred dollars? No. Two
cents? No. One cent? No. These
great cities grooming in anguish, ma.
tons crying out for the bread of ever.
lasting life. A man in will giving $40,.
100000 and not one cent to Godl 1t Is
a disgrace to our civilization. Or, as IL.
Illustrated in letter which l have con.
corning a man who departed this life
leaving between $5,Oo0,0OO and $s,oOO,.
600. Not one dollar was left, this writer
says, to comfort the aged worlme1
and workwomen, not one dollar 10 ele
vate and instruct the hundreds OF pale
children who stifed their childish
growth in the heat and clamor of hi'
factory. Is it strange that the curse OIL
the children of toll follows such ir
gratitude? How we'll could one of his
many millions have been disbursed fol
the present and the future benefit o!
those whose hands had woven literally
the fabric of the dead mans princely
fortune. 0 capitalists of the United
States, be your own executors! Be {
George Peabody, if need be, on small
scale. God has made you steward
Discharge your responsibility.
My word is to all laboring men in thi.
country: ! congratulate you at YOU
frightening prospects. 1 congratulate
you on the fact that you are get
ting your representatives at AL
bany, at Harrisburg and at Wash
ington. l have only to mention sucl
a man of the past as Henry Wilson
the shoemaker; as Andrew johnson
the tailor; as Abraham Lincoln, tn,
boatman. The living illustration
easily occur to you. This will 20 OF
until you have representatives at all tn
headquarters, and you will have full
justice. Mark that. congratulate yol
also at the opportunities for your chill
dren. l congratulate you that you hav
to work and that when you are dea,
your children will have to work.
l congratulate you also on your op
portunities for information. Plato pal,
$1,000 for two books. Jerome rhine,
himself financially by buying on
volume of "Origen." What vast oppor
tunities for intelligence for you an,
your children! A workingman goe
along by the show window of som
great publishing house, and he sees
book that costs five dollars. He says
II wish l could have that information
l wish | could raise five dollars for tina
costly and beautiful book" A fe,
months pass on, and he gets the valu
of that book for rs cents in pamphlet
There never was such a day for tn
workingmen of America as this day an
the day that is coming.
l also congratulate you because you
work is only predatory and introdue
tory. You want the grace of Jesu
Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth. H
toiled Himself, and He knows how t
sympathize with all who toll. Get Hi
grace in your heart, and you can sin
on the scaffolding amid the storm. i
the shop showing the plane, in the min
plunging the crowbar, on shipboar
climbing the ratlines. He will max