The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-25

venerable old warrior arose and said:
For your majesty / have rlsked my
life many a time on the battlefield,
and for your majesty | would be WILL
ing at any time to die; but you do
wrong when you insult the Christian
religion. You will forgive me II |,
your old military servant, cannot bear
in silence any insult to my Lord ana
my Savior" Frederick the Great
leaped to his feet, and he put out his
hand, and he said: Happy Ziethen!
Forgive me, forgive me-"
Oh, there are many being sconed
at for their religion, and | thank God
there are many men as brave as
Ziethen! Go to heaven yourself, EN-
ployer! Take all your people with you,
Soon you will be through buying and
selling and through with rlanufactur-
ing and building, and God will ask
you: Where are all those people over
whom you had so great influence? Are
they here? Will they be here"
shipowners, into what harbor will your
crew Sail " you 6ioSNA,
are those young men that under your
care are providing food for the bodies
and families of men to go starved for
ever? o you manufacturers, with SO
many wheels flying and so many bands
pulling and so many new patterns
turned out and so many goods shipped,
are the spinners, are the carmen, are
the draymen, are the statesmen, are the
watchers of your establishments work.
ing out everything but their own sal
walton? Can it be that, having those
people under your care 5, 10. 20 years.
you have made no everlasting impress
| sion for good on their immortal souls?
God turn us all back from such selfish
ness and teach us to live for others
and not for ourselves! Christ sets us
the example of sacrifice. and SO do
many of his disciples.
A True Physician.
One summer in California gentle
man who had just removed from the
| Sandwich Islands told me this incl
| dent: You know that one of the Sand
WITCH Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo-
pie getting sick of the leprosy on the
other islands are sent to the isle or
lepers They never come off. They
are in different stages of disease, Dut
all who die on that island die OF
leprosy.
On one of the islands there was a
physician who always wore his hand
gloved, and it was often discussed why
he always had a glove on that hand
under all circumstances. One day he
came to the authorities, and he with
drew his glove, and he said to the
officers of the law: You see on that
hand spot Of the leprosy and that
am doomed to die. | might hide this
for a little while and keep away from
the isle of lepers; but l am physl-
clan, and l can go on that island ana
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 lux
urious surroundings when l might be
of so much help to the wretched Send
me to the isle of the lepers?' They
seeing the spot of leprosy, of course
took the man into custody. He bade
farewell to his family and his friends.
1t was an agonizing farewell. He
could never see them again. He was
taken to the isle of the lepers and
there wrought among the sick until
Frustrated by his own DEATH which at
last came. Oh, that was magnificent
self denial, magnificent sacrifice, only
surpassed by that of him who exiled
himself 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 a leprous world into
great, blooming. glorious garden
Whether employer or employe, let us
catch that spirit.