The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-25

| thOSe VINO are unOer yOu-Ihr1Stlanly
| kind-but you are also to see that your
! boss workman and your head clerks
and your agents and your overseers in
| stores are kind to those under them.
| Sometimes a man will get little brief
| authority in store or in a factory,
and, while they are very courteous to
you, the capitalist, or to you, the head
man of the firm, they are most brutal
in their treatment of those under them.
| God only knows what some of the lads
| suffer in the cellars and in the lofts
! of some of our great establishments.
| They have no one to appeal to. The
! time will come when their arm will be
strong and they can defend themselves,
but not now. Alas for some of the cash
| boys and the messenger boys and the
| boys that sweep the store! Alas for
some of them! Now. you capitalist, you
the head man of the firm, must look,
supervise, see those all around you, in
vestigate all beneath you.
And then 1 charge you not to put un-
necessary temptation in the way of
your young men. Do not keep large
sums of money lying around unguard-
| ed. Know how much money there is in
| the till. Do not have the. account books
loosely kept. There are temptations
| inevitable to young men, and enough
of them, without your putting any un-
necessary temptations in their way.
Men in Wall street, having 30 years of
reputation for honesty, have dropped
into Sing Sing and perdition, and you
must be careful how you try lad of
Is. And if he do wrong do not pounce
on him like hyena. If he proves him
self unworthy of your confidence, do
not call in the police, but take him
| home. Tell why you dismissed him to
| those who will give him another chance.
| Many a young man has done wrong
once who will never do wrong again.
| All, my friends. ! think we can afford
| to give everybody another chance when
| God knows we should all have been in
perdition if He had not given us 10000
| chances.
! Then, if in moving around your fac
/ tory or mill or barn or store, you are
exoIable with young men God will
remember it. Some day the wheel of
| fortune will turn, and you will be pau
| per, and your daughter will go to the
workhouse, and your son will die on the
scaffold. If i'll moving among your
young men you see one with an omi-
nous pallor of cheek or you hear him
coughing behind the counter, say to
| him: ''Stay home a day or two and
rest or go out and breathe the breath
| of the hills If his mother die, do not
l. do Ao IN,
neral he be in the store. Give him at
least a week to get over that which he
will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above all, religious life. So far from
that, how is it, young men? Instead of
| being cheered on the road to Heaven
some of you are caricatured, and it is
hard thing for you to keep your Chris
tian integrity in that store or factory
| where there are so many hostile to re-
| ligion. Ziethen, grave general under
Frederick the Great, was a Christian.
! Frederick the Great was a skeptic. One
! day Ziethen, the venerable, white-ha;red
general, asked to be excused from mill
tary duty that he might attend the
holy sacrament. He was excused. A
few days after Ziethen was dining with
the king and with many notables of
Prussia when Frederick the Great in
jocose way said: "Well, Ziethen, how
did the sacrament of last Friday di-
gest % The venerable old warrior
arose and said: For your majesty l
have risked my life many time on the
battlefield, and for your majesty ]
would be willing at any time to die;
but you do wrong when you insult the
Christian religion. You will forgive
me if 1, your old military servant, can
not bear in silence any insult to my
Lord and my Saviour" Frederick the
Great leaped TO his feet, and he put out
his hand, and be said: Happy Zie.
then! Forgive me, forgive mel"
Oh, there are many being scoffed at
for their religion, and thank God there
! are many men as brave as Ziethen
One summer in California a gentle
man who had just removed from the
Sandwich Islands told me this Incl
dent: You know that one of the Sand
wich Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo-
pie getting sick of the leprosy on the
other islands are sent to the isle of
.lepers. They never come off. They are
in different stages of disease, but all
who die on that island die of leprosy.
On one of the islands there was ply
sician who always wore his hand. gloved,
and it was often discussed why he al
ways had glove on that hand under all
circumstances. One day he came to the
authorities, and he withdrew his glove,
and he said to the officers of the law:
You see on that hand a spot of the
leprosy and that I am doomed to die.
might hide this for little while and
keep away from the isle of lepers; but
[ am a physician, and / can go on that
island and administer to the sufferings
of those who are farther gone in the
disease. and / should like to go now.
1t would be selfish in me to stay amid
the luxurious surroundings when ]
might be of so much help to the
wretched. Send me to the isle of lep-
ers." They, seeing the spot of leprosy,
of course took the man into custody.
He bade farewell to his family and
friends. 1t was an agonizing farewell.
He could never see ther. igain. He was
taken TO the isle of the lepers and there
wrought among the sick until pros
trated by his own death, which at last
came. Oh, that was magnificent self
denial magnificent sacrifice. only sur
passed by that of Him who exiled Him
self from the health of Heaven to this
leprous island of world that He might
physician our wounds and weep our
griefs and die our deaths, turning the
isle of leprous world into a great,
blooming, glorious gardenl Whether
employer or employe, let US catch that
spirit.