Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-06-01


Do not be too ready to cut down wages
As far as possible, pay all and pay prompt
ly. There is a great deal OF Bible teaching
OF this subject. Malachi, al will be a swift
witness against all sorcerers and against
all adulterers and against those who OPP
pose the hlrelIng in his wages" Levticus,
"Thou sbult 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 u Master IN heaven" So you
see 1t is not a question between you and
your employe so much as 1t 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, once year visit at theii
homes your clerks and your workmen
That is the only way You can become &C.
| qualnted 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 swelterng In i'll
ventilated apartments. You will find much
depends on the wages you pay or with.
hold.
Moreover, 1t 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, 1 amsgldd sto say, who are sot'
tiny OF their employees. Such mon as Mar.
shnll OF Leeds, Lister OF Bradford, Akroyd
of Halifax and men so near at home IL
might offend their modesty IL mentioned
their names-these men have built reading
rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded
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Sums, choral societies for their employees,
and they have not merely paid the wages
on Saturday night, but through tho con.
tentment and the thrift and the good
morals of their employees they are paying
wages from generation to generation for.
ever.
Again, counsel all emplo yers to lool
well after the physical health of their sub
ordlnates. Do not put on them any un-
necessary fatigue. | never could undor-
stand why the drivers on our city cars
must stand oil day when they might Just
as well 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 Pill 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 add.
tional fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down on the business Of
the store, let them sit down.
But above all charge you, o employers,
that you look after the moral and spiritual
welfare of your employees. First, know
where they spend their evenings. Tint
decides everything. You do not want
around your money drawer young man
who went last night to see "Jack Shop.
pardP' A man that comes into the store
in the morning CHASTITY with midnight rev.
q lry Ia al hn fnon for etDr
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, at
they do their work in the business hours,
that is all have to ask" God has made
you that mans guardian. 1 want you to
understand that many of these young men
are orphans or worse than orphans, flung
out into society to struggle for them
solves.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above all, religious life. So far from
hat, how is it, young menf Instead OF
being cheered on the road to heaven some
1f you nre carcatured, and it is hard
hing for you to keep your Christian integ-
-ity In that store or factory where there
! grave general under Frederick the |
Great, was u Christian. Frederick the
Great was n skeptic. Ono day Ziethen,
The venerable, white haired general asked
10 be excused from military duty that
no might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. A few days after
ziethen was dining With tho king and
with many notahles of Prussia, when
Frederick the Great in jocose way
said, "Well, Ziethen, how did that sacra-
ment OF last Friday digest2" Tho venera-
Bile old warrior arose aud said: For your
majesty have risked my life many time
on the battlefield, and for your majesty l
would be willing any time to die; but you
do wrong when you insult the Christian
religion. You Will forgive me If 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
Zlethenl Forgive me, forgive mel"
Oh, there are many being scofIed at for
their religion, and thank God there are
many mon rs brave as Zlethcnl Go to
heaven yourself, o employer! Take all
your people with you. soon you will be
through buying and selling, and through
with manufacturing and building, and
God will ask you: where are all those
people over whom you had so great in
huence2 Are they here? VIII they be
will your crew sail2 Oh, you merchant
grocers, arc those young men that
under your care are providing food for
the bodies and families OF men to 20
starved forever Oh. you manufac-
Jurors, 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 working
out everything but their own salvation?
Can it be that, having those people under
your care five, ten, twenty years, you have
made 70 everlasting impression for good on
their immortal souls? God turn us all back
from such selllshness 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 q 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 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 wno always wore his hand gloved,
and 1t was often discussed why be ALWAYS
had glove on that hand under all circum-
stances. Ono day no came to the authori-
ties, and he withdrew his glove, and he
said to the officers of the law: "You see on
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