The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-31

into consideration and then pay what is
reasonable.
I o not be too ready to cut down wages.
AS far as possible, pay all, and pay prompt
ly. There is great deal OF Bible teaching
on this subject Malachi, 81 will ba Il swift
witness against all Sorcerer5 and against
all adulterers and against those who OPP
pose the hireing in his wages" LeYiticus,
Thou shalt not keep the wages OF the hire
ling all night unto the morning." Colos-
SLAMS, "Masters, give unto your servants
that which is Just and equal, knowing that
we also have a Master in heaven" 50 you
see it is not a question between you ana
your employe so much as it Is question
between you and God.
Do not say to your employees, "Now, II
you don't like this place, get another"
when you know they cannot get another.
As far as possible, olce year visit at their
homes your clerks and your Torkmen.
That is the only way you can become ac-
quainted with their wants.
You will by such process find out that
there is blind parent or sick sister De-
ing supported. You will find some OF your
young men in rooms without any hre IN
winter and in summer sWeltering in III
ventilated apartments. You Will find much
depends on the wages you pay or with
hold
Moreover, it is your duty as employer, as
far as possible, to mold the welfare OF the
employee. You ought to advise him about
Investments, about life insurance, about
savings banks. You ought to give him the
benefit of your experience.
There are hundreds and thousands OF
employers, amsglad .to say, who are set
thing in the very best possible way the des-
tiny OF their employees. Such men as Mar
shall Of Leeds, Lister Of Bradford, ARROYO
OF Halifax and men so near at home 1t
might offend their modesty IL mentioned
their names-these men have built reading
rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded
croquet lawns, cricket grounds, gymna-
sums choral societies for their employees,
and they have not merely paid the wages
on Saturday night, but through the con-
tentment and the thrift and the good
morals of their employees they are paying
wages from generation to generation for
ever.
Again, 1 counsel all emplo yers to look
well after the physical health of their sub
ordipates. Do not put on them any I'M
necessary fatigue. [ never could under
stand why the drivers on our city cars
must stand all day when they might just
as we'll sit down and drive.
1t seems to me most unrlghteous that so
many of the female clerks in our stores
should be compelled to stand all day and
through those hours when there are but
few or no customers. These people have
aches and annoyances and WEAKNESS
enough without putting upon them addi-
tional fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down Oh the business OF
the store let them sit down.
But above all I charge you, o employers,
that you look after the moral and spiritual
welfare Of your employees. First, know
where they spend their evenings. That
decides everything. You do not want
around your money drawer a young man
who went last night to see Jack Shop
pardp' man that comes into the store
in the morning CHASTITY with midnight rev.
elry is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends his evening in the
society Of refined women or in musical or
artistic circles or in literary improvement
is the young man for your store.
Do not say OF these young men, 'If
they do their work in the business hours,
that is all have to ask" God has made
you that mans guardian. I want you to
understand that many OF these young men
are orphans or worse than orphans, lung
out into society to struggle for them
selves.
Employers, urge upon your employees.
above all, Il 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 Christian integ-
rlty In that store or factory where there
are 80 many hostile to religion. Ziethen,
grave general under Frederick the
Great, was a Christian. Frederick the
Great was skeptic. One day Ziethen,
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 the king and
with many notnbles of Prussia, when
Frederick the Great in jocose way
said, 'Well, Ziethen, how did that sacra-
ment of last Friday digest?" The venera-
BILE old warrior arose and said 'For your
majesty 1 have risked my life many time
tn IL e. ONns. r
would be willing any time to die; but you
do wrong when you insult the Christian
religion. You will forgive me if I, your
old military servant, cannot bear in silence
any insult to my Lord and my Saviour"
Frederick the Great leaped to his feet, and
he put cut his hand, and he said: Happy
Ziethen Forgive me, forgive me!'
Oh, there are many being scoffed Mt for
their religion, and ! thank God there are
many men us brave as Ziethen! Go to
heaven yourself, o employer Take all
your people with you. Soon you will be
with manufacturing and building, and p
God will askyou: "Where are all those
people over whom you had so great in
fuence? Are they here? Will they be
here?" o shlpowners, into what harbor
will your crew sail? Oh, you merchant
under your care are providing food for
the bodies and families OF men to go
starved forever? Oh. you manufac-
turers, with so many wheels flying and
so many bands pulling and so many new
patterns turned out aud so many goods
shipped, are the spinners, are the carmen,
are the ,draymen, are the statesmen, are the
watchers OF your establishments working
out everything but their own salvation?
Can 1t be that, having those people under
your caro- five, ten, twenty years, you have
made 70 everlasting i'm preston for good on
their immortal souls? God turn US all back
from such selnshness and teach us to 1--we
for others and not for ourselves. Christ
sets us the example OF sacrifice, and so DO
many of His disciples.
One summer in California a gentleman
who had Just removed from the Sandwich
Islands told me this incident: You know
that one OF the Sandwich Islands is devoted
to lepers. People getting sick Of the lep-
rosy on the other islands are sent to the
isle of lepers. They never come OF. 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
slcian who always wore his hand gloyed,
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