Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-30

pose the hirelirg In his wages" Levittcus,
Thou shalt not keep the wages OF the hire
slams. Masters, give unto your servants
that which Is just and equal, knowing that
ye also have a Master In heaven" So you
see 1t is not question between you and
your employe so much as 1t is question
between you and God.
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 workmen.
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 be-
Ing supported. You will find some OF your
young men In rooms without any fire in
winter and In summer swelterfng in ill
ventilated apartments. You will find much
depends on the wages you pay or with
hold.
Moreover, it is your duty as employer, as
ar as possible, to mold the welfare OF the
smploye. You ought to advise him about
Investments. about life insurance. about
savings banks. You ought to give him the
benefit OF your experience.
employers, amlglad .to say, who are GET
ling in the very best possible way the des-
tiny OF their employees. Such men as Mar
shall of Leeds, Lister OF Bradford, Akroyd
of Halifax and men so near at home 1t
might offend their modesty IL L 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 gene<ation for
ever.
Again, I counsel all emplo yers to look
we'll after the physical health of their sub
,rdinates. Do not put on them any un-
necessary fatigue. l never could under
stand why the drivers on our city cars
must stand all day when they might just
IS we'll sit down and drive.
1t seems to me most unrighteous 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
'ew or no customers. These people have
iches and annoyances and weariness
enough without putting upon them addi-
ional fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down on the business OF
The store, let them sit down.
But above all I charge you, o employers,
hat you look after the moral and spiritual
Welfare OF your employees. First, know
where they spend their evenings. That
1ecides everything. You do not want
around your money drawer young man
oardr' man that comes into the store
n the morning ghastly with midnight rev.
slry is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends his evening In the
society of refined women or in musical OF
artistic circles or In literary improvement
Is the young man for your store.
Do not say OF these young men, eli
they do their work in the business hours,
that is all have to ask" God has made
you that mans guardian. l want you to
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are orphans or worse than orphans, flung
)ut into society to struggle for them
selves.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above all, a religious life. So far from
hat, how is 1t, young menf Instead OF
being cheered on the road to heaven some
of you are caricatured, and 1t Is hard
hing for you to keepyou Christian integ-
.ity Ia 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 skeptic. One day Ziethen,
The venerable, white haired general, esked
20 be excused from military duty that
he might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. few days after
ziethen was dining with the king and
with many notables OF Prussia, when
Frederick the Great in iocose way
said, "Well, Ziethen, how did that sacra-
ment OF last Friday digest2' The venera-
Bile old warrior arose and said: "For your
majesty have risked my life many n time
on the battlefield, and for your majesty ]
would be willing any time to die; but you
do wrong when you insult the Christian
religion. You will forgive me IL l, 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
Zietheni Forgive me, forgive mel''
Oh, there are many being scoffed at for
their religion, and thank God there are
many men as brave as Ziethenl Go to
heaven yourself, o employeri Take all
your people with you. Soon you will be
through buying and selling, and through
With manufacturing and building, and
people over whom you had so great In
fiuence? Are they here? viii they be
here?' o shipowners, into what harbor
will your crew sail? Oh, you merchant
grocers, are those young men that
under your care are providing food for
starved foreverr Oh, you manufac-
turers, with so many wheels flying and
80 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 working
out everything but their own salvation2
Can 1t be that, having those people under
your care five, ten, twenty years, you have
made 70 everlasting impression for good on
their immortal souls2 God turn us all back
from such selilshness 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.
One summer in California n gentleman
who had just removed from the Sandwich
Islands told me this incident: You know
that one of the Sandwich Islands is devoted
k<,l .lA tVsr usnly Of l..t.-
rosy 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 Ieprosy.
On one Of the islands there was ply
sican who always wore his hand gloved
and Ii was often discussed why he always
had glove on that hand under all circum-
stances. One day he came to the authori-
ties, 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 l
am doomed to die. l might hide this for
little while and keep away from the isle OF
lepers, bat I am a physician, and / can
go on that island and administer to
the sufferings OF those who are
further gone In the disease, and / should
like to go now. 1t would be selfish in me
to stay amid these luxurious surroundings
when l might be oil 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 prostrated
by his own death, which at last came. Oh,
that was magnificent self denial, magni1-
cent sacrifice, only surpassed by that OF
Him who exile1 Himself from the health
OF heaven to this leprou5 island Of world
that He might physician our wounds and
weep our griefs and die our deaths, turn
Ing the isle OF a leprous world into great
blooming, glorious garden. Whether en-
ployer or employe. let us catch that spirit
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