Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-10

herself does not believe herself capable
of giving. The true Interpretation of
love means simply this: If you love
your servants, you will take them into
your life and make their interests your
interests. And by your loving them
they willlet you creep into their hearts
and make your interests their interests.
The housekeeper Is the domestic
model also in religion. Therefore by
her life she should teach her servants
that religion is not a mere sham. but
a reality. and that the noblest of all
lives is that consecrated TO the service
of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1t has been
said that mo man is hero to his
valet Therefore mo mistress could
be a true Christian exemplar for her
servant" That statement is only par
tally true. No housewife, if she is
leading an insincere life, can have
true spiritual influence over her serv-
ants. The nearer you come to the huge
piece of rock in the Yellowstone park
which in the distance seems TO be the
face of a man. the more you see its
jagged corners and distorted features.
The nearer a servant comes to an in
pulsed by her pretensions to religion;
but the nearer domestic comes to a
pure, true. noble woman, who is ear.
nestly and prayerfully trying to follow
out the teachings of the Christ love. the
more she realizes the Importance of liv-
ing for eternity and not for time; for
Christ, and not for pleasure; for pres,
ent duty, and not for a transient whim
The greatest cause of unfaithfulness
and dishonesty in the kitchen is the
fact that your servant girl is not con-
verted to Christ. Perhaps the chief
reason ply your servant is not con-
verted is that she does not see you, her
mistress, a processing Christian, liv-
ing the Christian life you ought to
live. My sister. is it not time for you
to turn over new leaf and start
afresh for Christ? Is it not good re-
solve to try to settle this servant
question" once for all by surrender
ing yourself, body and mind and soul.
to the service of your Master?
The spiritual influence which a con-
secrated Christian woman can have
over the life of her servant was well
shown by Rev. Francis E. Clark of the
Christian Endeavor society. He told
this beautiful story soon after his re-
turn from China: The wife of an
American missionary, who was massa-
cred in the late Chinese uprising, was
one day teaching a Sunday school class,
among whom was one of her Chinese
servants. This servant girl, by coming
| in contact with her mistress, was not
only led to the feet of Christ. but also
| was led to believe that her faithful
| wiser. So this day the young girl looked
| up into the face of this Christian lady
| and said: missionary, as you talk
about the great joys of heaven l would
| like to ask you a question. Will we
know each other when we reach heav-
en-? Will you know your father and
mother and husband and little chill
| dren? Will you know me and l know
you" EYES," answered the Christian
lady. 'Then, missionary" said the
poor Chinese servant. you have been
so kind to me that when l get to heaven
I am going to ask Jesus to just let me
sit by your side and hold your hand
| forever and ever and ever" Oh. mis-
tresses! Oh, housewives and house
servants may you reveal the same gen.
| tie Christian life that the martyred
Christian lady showed to her house
hold. In your prayers, in your conse'
Grafton. in your family affairs. in the
purity of your life, may you always
help your household servants to look
beyond the grave and to look up. Then
when your domestics, through your
Christian example, walk hand in hand
| with Jesus Christ there will be nc
servant question" Why? There shall
be no unfaithful and slothful do
mestics.
Housewives and housekeepers. heed
we'll the Importance of consecratine
your lives to Christ, not only for your
own sake, but also for the sake of your
servants. Remember that it is fal
easier for you to commit sin against
those whom you suppose to be lower
than you than it is against those whom
you suppose are above you. 1t Is
easier for parent to sin against 6
child than for the child to defy a par
ent. It is easier for a king to do ar
open wrong to a subject than for &
subject to flagrantly sin against king
And remember, further, that Coo
judges our actions just as much by
how we treat our cattle as our mas
tiers, our underlings as our employers
our servants as our husbands an(
wives. May the Spirit inspire every
housewife to live such holy life tina
her servants can we'll take her as {
spiritual model and can see in her face
q reflection of the loving smile of Jesu!
Christ, who willingly became the serv
ant of ALL
copyright. 1903. by Louis KIopsch.