The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-10-02
AM / MY BROTHERS
KEEPERS
Simple Doctrine That Would
Solve All Community and
National Troubles.
Manufacturers Reco5d.]

A religion that makes men realize
that if there is a Heaven. there mus
also of necessity be He'll
A religion that makes a man re
alize that every act is recorded OF
his own conscience and that though
that may sIumber it can never die
A religion that makes an employ
er understand that il he is unfair L
his employees and pays them les
than fair, for their efficiency ant
zeal, he is a robber--
A religion that makes an EN-
ployee know that if he does not Civ
full and efficient service, he too, j
a robber-
A religion that makes a farmer
who packs bad fruit at the bottom
and deceives the buyer by the goot
fruit on the top, realize that he is
thief iu.t as much as the one WHIT
robs a hen roost at night
A religion that makes man who
robs a railroad of its fare, or his
freight bill, know that he robs him
salf Of all right to feel that he is al
honest man
A religion that makes man re-
alize that by driving too hard a bar
gain with his servant, his employe,
or his merchant, he can be just as
much a profiteer as the seller or
producer who swindles by false
weight, false packing, or false
charges
A religion that will teach church
members who fail to contribute TO
the extent of their ability to the
OF religion, and that COM
pels them to recognize that if they
are paying the pastor less than a
living salary, they are robbing God
and man alike
A religion that will make the la
boring man. who by threats or by
actual violence against the nom
union man strives to keep him out
of employment, realize that he is at
heart a murderer, and a destroyer
of the liberty of his fellow.man, and
is displaying a hatred which, if it
has the opportunity. will commit
physical murder
A religion that will make the pol.
itician who yields principle for the
sake Of party, who worships at the
feet OF any class and sells his soul
for political preferment, know that
he is not only coward and pal
troon, and unworthy of the respect
of any decent man, but which will
also make him see that he is help
ing to murder human liberty, as
grave a crime as numbering the in
dividual man
In short we need revival of that
religion which will make every man
and woman strive in every act oil
life to do that which, on the great
Judgment Day, they will wish they
had done, as with soul uncovered,
they stand before the Judgment Seat
of the Eternal.
In the Golden Rule followed in
the fulIness of the spirit of this kind
of religion, there would be TO md a
solution of every business trouble;
there would be created friendship
between employer and EN- 2loye;
capital and labor would work in
harmony and with efficiency. eff.
cheney for the capital and efficier
for the laborer, with profit to both
Religion of this kind is measured
by the full fruition now Of Peace on
earth, to men good will"
1t is not merely chanting oil
hymns here or in the world to come,
but it is the recognition and full
application by rich and by poor, by
learned and unlearned, that each
one is indeed his, brothers. keeper
that we can bring this country and
the world back to safety.
A nationwide acceptance of this
the only true religion in action
would bring business peace and
world peace where there is now tur-
MOL, and men would then cease to
seek to gain their aims by lawless
acts of immortality, but would ia
spirit and in deed follow the divine
command, All things whatsoever
ye would that men do to you. do ye