The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-11-27

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your servants can work for you from a
higher motive than that Of getting
money They can learn 10 love you.
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
reality, and that the noblest Of all
lives is that consecrated to the service
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. II has been
said that "nO man Is a 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 a
true spiritual influence over her serv-
ants. The nearer You come TO the huge
piece Of rock I'm the Yellowstone park,
which I'm the distance seems TO be the
face Of a man, the more you see It's
jagged corners and distorted features.
The nearer q servant comes 10 an in
sincere mistress the more she IS re-
pulsed by her pretensions TO religion;
but the nearer a domestic comes to a
pure. true. noble woman. who Is ear
nestly and praycrfully 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 I'm the kitchen Is the
fact that your servant girl is not con
verted 10 Christ. Perhaps the chief
reason why your servant IS not con-
verted is that she does not see you, her
mistress. n processing Christian, liv-
ing the Christian life you ought to
live. Ny sister. is it not time for you
TO turn over new leaf and start
afresh FOR Christ? Is it not a good re-
solve 70 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
scented Christian woman can have
over the life Of her servant was well
shown by Rev Francis L. Clark Of the
Christian Endcavor society. lie told
this beautiful story soon after his re-
turn from China: The wife Of an
American missionary. who was massa-
cred I'm 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
I'm contact with her mistress, was not
only led to the feet of Christ, but also
was led to believe that her faithful
mistress was her true spiritual ad-
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 | would
Ike TO ask you a question. VIII we
know each other when we reach heav-
en-? VIII You know your father and
mother and husband and little chill
dren? VIII you know me and know
your "Yes," answered the Christian
lady. "Thcn, missionary" said the
poor Chinese servant. you have been
so kind 10 me that when / get to heaven
! am going to ask Jesus 10 just let me
sit by your side and hold your hand
forever and ever and ever" Oh, mis-
tressesl Oh housewives and house
keepers, IN your dealings with your
servants may you reveal the same gen
tie Christian life that the martyred
Christian lady showed 70 her house
hold. In your prayers, I'm your conse-
Grafton, in your family affairs, in the
purity Of your life, may you always
help your household servants 10 look
beyond the grave and TO look up. Then,
when your domestlcs. through your
Christian example, walk hand in hand
with Jesus Christ there will be no
Servant question" Why? There shall
be no unfaithful and slothful do
mestics.
Housewives and housekeepers, heed
well the Importance Of consecrating
your lives to Christ, not only for your
own sake, but also for the sake Of your
servants. Remember that it is far
easier for you to commit a 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 n parent to sin against
child than for the child to defy a par
ent. It IS easier for a king to do an
open wrong to a subject than for a
subject TO flagrantly sin against n king.
And remember. further, that God
Judges our actions just as much by
how we treat our cattle as our mas
tcrs. our underlings as our employers,
our servants as our husbands and
wives. May the Spirit inspire every
housewife TO live such a holy life that
her servants can well take her as a
spiritual model and can see in her face
n reflection Of the loving smile Of Jesus
Christ. who willingly became the sery-
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