Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-05-25


1uainted with their wants.
: You will by such process find out that
there Is blind parent or sick sister De-
Inc supported. You will find some OF your |
Young men in rooms without any lire In |
winter and In summer swelterlng In Ill |
apartments. You will find mucn |
depends on the wages you pay or WIN
hold.
Moreover, it is your duty as employer, as
far as possible, TO mold the welfare OF the
employe. You ought to advise him aDout
Investments, about life insurance, about
savings banks. You ought to give MIN the
benefit Of your experience.
There are hundreds and thousands oil
employers, amIglad ITO say, who are get
thing In the very best possible way the des'
tiny OF their employees. Such mon as Mar.
shall of Leeds, Lister OF Bradford, ARROYO
OF Halifax and men so near at home II
might offend their modesty IL mentioned
their names-these men have built readlne
rooms. libraries, concert halls, aHorded
croouet lawns, cricket grounds, gymna'
Sims. choral societies for their employees,
and thoy have not merely PAID the wages
ON Saturday night, but through the con,
tentment and the thrift and the goou
morals Of their employees they are paying
wages from generation TO geher"tion ioi-
ever. - ,oot
Again. I counsel all emplo yers to looB
we'll after the physical health OF their SUD
ordinates. Do not put on them any I'M
necessary fatigue. ] never couid uhuer-
stand why the drivers on our CITY cars
must stand all day when they might JUST
as we'll sit down and drive.
If seams 10 me most unrlghteous that 80
many of the female clerks 10 our stores
should be compelled to stand all DAY anu
through those hours when there nre pue
few or no customers. These people nave
aches and annoyances ana we, "eara ,ddI
enough without putting upon them auai.
tional fatigue. Unless these female CLERKS
must 60 up and down Oh the business %
tho store, let them sit down.
But above all charge you, 0 employers,
that YOU look after the moral and spiritual
welfare of your employees. First, know
where thew spend their evenings. That
decides everything. You do not want
around your money drawer young man
who won't last night to see JACK Snep
pardr; A man that comes into the store
in the morning ghastly with midnight rev
elry is not the man for your store. Ine
voIng nan who spends his evening In the
society OF refined women or i'll mualcGi OF
artistic circles or la literary Improvement
Is the young man for your store ,,
Do not say Of these young men, III
they do their work in the business hours,
that is all have TO ask" Goa mas mace
YOU that mans guardian. L want you 10
understand that many OF these young men
are orphans or worse than orp mans, nun6
out into society to struggle Tor them'
| selves.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
| above all, q religious lie. 80 lar Iron.
| thnt how is It, young men! Instead OF
| being cheered on the road to heaven some
| of Won are carcatured, and it is hard
| thing for you to keep your Christian integ-
! rity in that store or factory where there
are so many hostile to religion. Ziethen,
grave general under Frederick the
| Great. was Christian. Frederick the
| Great was Il skeptic. One day LietneD,
the venerable, white haired general, asked
| to be excused from military duty that
| he might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. A few days after
| Ziethen was dining with tho king and
with many notables Of Prussia, when
| Frederick tho Great IN jocose way
said. "Wcll. Ziethen, how did that sacra
menl Of last Friday digest?" The venera'
ble old warrior arose aud said: "For your
majesty have rsked my life many q time
on the battlefield, and for your majesty
would be willing any time 10 die; put you
do wrong when you insult the Chrlstiai
religion. You will forgive me IL l, you
| old military servant, cannot bear in sllenct
any insult 10 my Lord and my Saviour.
Frederick the Great leaped to his feet, ant
| be mt cut his hand and he said: "Happ
! Ziethepi Forgive me, forgive mel!
Oh. there are many beiug scolfed at 10
their religion, and thank God there ar
many men as brave as Ziethenl Go e
heaven yourself, 0 employer! rake ~
your people with you. Soon you VIII "
through buying and selling, ind througl
with manufacturing ana pulidlp9' an'
neople over whom you had so great In
fiuenee? Are they here? Will they D
here?" O shipowners, into what harDo
will YOUR crew sail? Oh, you merchan
grocers, are those young men ina
Under YOUR care are providing food 10
the bodies and families of men to. 6
starved forever? Oh, you manufac
turers. with so many wheels flying an
so many bands pulling and so many ne'
patterns turned out and SO many Roou
shipped, are the spinners, are the carmen
ara the draymen, are the statesmen, are th
watchers OF your establishments workin
ont everything but their own salvation
, Can it be that, having those people unde
YOUR care five, ten, twenty years, you nav
, made 20 everlasting impression Tor goou
their immortal souls? God turn us all bac
from such sel1shness and teach US 10 h'
: for others and not for ourselves. OurE
seis us the example OF sacrifice, aud so q
many OF His disciples.
One summer in California gentlema
who had lust removed from the Sahdwlc
islands told me this incident: You kno
: that one of the Sandwich Islands is devote
to lepers. People getting sick OF the lel
. ROSY on the other islands are sent 10 IL
isle of lepers. They never come OH. Inc
9 are in different stages OF disease, put
I who die on that island die OF leprosy.
: On ono Of the islands there was a pm.
{ sician VINO always wore his hand glove
Z and 1t was often discussed why he alWa.
] mad glove on that hand under all circuu
D stances, One day he came to the author
) ties. and he withdrew his glove, and
j said to the officers OF the law: "You see
TINT hand a spot OF the leprosy aud that
i am doomed to die. / might hide this for
little while and keep away from the isle
y lepers, bat l am n physician, and ca
Il 90 on that island and administer
G the sufferings OF those VINO
q further gone In the disease, and | shou
d like to 20 now. 1t would be selfish In 4
81 to STAY amid these luxurious surrounding
Il when l might be OF so much help 70 9
II wretched. Send me to the Isle OF t
lepers." They, seeing the spot OF iepros
d of course took the man into custody.
ID bnde farewell TO his family and his friend
., II was an agonizing farewell. /
d could never see them again. He
taken to the isle OF the lepers and the
IS wrought among the sick until PROSTATE
II by his own death, which at last came. Y
y, that was magnificent self denial, magni
u cent sacrifice, only surpassed by that
# Him who exiled Himself from the healt
If heaven to this leprous island of VOL
81 that He might physician our wounds a
n weep our grlefs and die our deaths, tur
,e ing the isle OF n leprous world into a gre
se blooming, glorious garden, Whether g
ployer or employe, lot us. catch that spiI