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PR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
HC r EMPLOYEHS ought tc
treat employes.
_ t «‘if ye bite and devour one another,
C heed that ye be not consumed one of an
-^«latl ’ ans v » 15<
• Louk not every ican on bis own things
but every man also on the things of others.”
ii, 4.
The labor agitation will soon < ea<e, ami ell
. ra i]|s will be reopened, and all the rail
*2 ' r( *ume traffic, and all our national
nrcsnerities stai t again. Os course it will be
“L time before the country recovers from
th t’amage of the strikes. Strikes always
L-a-e laborers more than they do capital-
Ss During this strike ♦he laboring clas>es
w > lost—never to tecovei’*—one hunare<l niil
£n dollars. It does not make much differ
ence to every successful capitalist whether he
./. Jifty thousand dollars less or fifty
tb .Esand dollars more; “but when a
man is dependent upon the day's
“ a , e « it makes the difference be
t vcZ n bread and no bread, between home
and no home. Spasmodi ally wages may be
higher, but as a result of such things wages
grt lower. Boycotting, violence and murder
never pay- Tiiey are different stages of an
arcbv the poorest use you can put a man
to is to kill him. To-morrow, blow up all the
fine residence® on the Hudson River, and ail
thereat houses on Brooklyn Heights and
Bn-oklyn Hill and Ritter house Square and
Beacon street, and all the stones and timber
and brick will merely fall bark on the bare
head of American labor. The worst ene
mie< of the working classes art' their
demented coadjutors. The assassination
of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phomix
Park. Dublin. Ireland. to avenge the wrongs
of that unhappy country, had no result ex
cept to turn away the sympathies of millions
gs people from that afflicted land. The at
tempt two or three years ago to blow up the
parli iment Houses of England had only one
result, and that to turn out of employment
thousands of the Irish who had work in
England. In this country the torch applied
to factories that have ‘discharged hands.
wh<ther for good or bad reasons; obstacles
put on the rail tracks in front of midnight
express trains because they do not like the
President of the company; the sudden
throwing up of work on shipboard ju.-t be
fore they arc going to sail, or* in printing
office, just before they are going to press, or
in the mines .inst before they are to deliver
the "al, or on the house scaffolding so that
uilder cannot meet his contract—sll this
oa v cripples American labor and pierces its
hear . All the sudden traps set for employ
ed never yet put one farthing in the callous
palm, never yet untied one knot from tho
Knuckles of hard toil. In other words,
barbarism can never euro the wrongs
of civilisation. Mark that, my brother,
mv s : ster. Frederick tho Great
admired a farm near ms palace at
Potsdam. The farm was owned by a miller.
The King offered him three times the value
of th ■ farm, but the nd her would not sell it.
teeaute it was the old homestead, and he felt
about it just as Naboth felt about the vine
yard when Ahab wanted it. The King or
dered the miller to come into h : s presence.
Tha King with a stick n his hand with which
he souk times struck his officers of state, said
to the nnller: “Now. if you don't sell that to
’ne I’ll take it anyhow.” “No you won t,
y<;ir Majesty,” said tho miller, “no
you went.” “Yes I will/’ said the
King. "I am King and I’vo a
right to take it.” “No, you won’t.” said the
miller, “if your Majesty takes mvfarm. I’ll
sueycu in the Chancery Court.” And the
law loomed up and the King backed down.
But I have t ) tell, you that the most out
rageous wrong inflicted upon the woiking
classes will yet come before the law. Vio
lence and against the law achieves nothing,
but righteousness and according to law will
achieve everything. It is most important
at this point in the discussion, in this series
of sermons which lam preaching on Sab
bath mornings, and which I shall continue
for three or four Sabbath mornings more, to
set forth the fact that the honest, industri
ous workingmen of this country have no
sympathy with nruv’chy or outlawry, and
to prove it I road from the newspaper organ
of the Knights of Labor. I read from the
first page in large letters this vehement dis
claimer :
•let it be understood by all the world that
the Knights of Labor have no affiliating as
sociation, sympathy or respect for the band
of cowardly murderers, cutthroats and rob
b rs known as anarchists, who sneak through
the country like midnight assassins, stirring
up the of ignorant foreigners, un
furling the red flag of anarchy and causing
h"t and bloodshed. All their follow-el’s, sym
jathizers, aiders and abettors shill bp sum
marily dealt with. They are entitled to no
more consideration than wild beasts. The
leaders are cowards and their followers are
fools.'
So declares the chief organ of the Knights
of Lab >r. Well, all the agitation, as I say,
yill soon b? gone, but there are some very
impoi-tant things to be uttered. Now. all
this discussion of the philosophy of the sub
ject does not touch me a bit. I simply want to
know what is my duty and what is your
duty in the crisis. Tne vast majority are
divided into two classes—employers and em
ployes. The chasm between the employer
and the employe is getting wider and wider,
know the time was when the master
ouuder, the boss workmen and the capitalist
toiled side by side with the laborer at the
•‘ame bench, and there are many people in
;“ LS Louse who remember the time when
tne clerks of great commercial establishments
warded with the hea l man of the firm: that
we chasm between the employer and employe
' getting wider and wider, and the tempta<
tion is the laborer to say: “My boss
dUk’ n » n ‘ ln ? ‘‘M’dalist. is wronging me by
J tnat he succeeds*” and the tendency is for
oe employer to bay: ••Now the e mea in
employ are merely st, irfahy heqjpl df
ur( * en - and it is my business to give
M ? nev J or much labor, so many, Alars
?, ‘° r s .° ,nau .V beads of sweat ** the
°uble is that the bridge is brokjv?* % at
h ends Thomas Carlyle, i™** Saint
b, ‘t f neful way, put it wher * b
’logson, of St. Dolly Uir* to
i u'k 1: spinner- ScXdvshOL nn .
W( . iiave, I
Montodnd an,l plan, b - "®* l ' The
‘ re,1 ’ th ' ’’■'<ittUth'-pWn l »ithov. V'' L daily
r-o.L Wa, i J our '- Adies sinner-.
t'iy health with thLgrß *»<eh»-hich I
you over and above."' -7
in i7'' Wllat we want tlwbridge,
•Ml put the trowel'this dnv & one of the
oi^hTt wb *’ e I employers' how they
cur r employes. As many laborers
th r i past tLree months have maltreated
mrrt7 ni i?^? rsau ‘l deserve condign punish-
■ * r their behavior, the tendency b now
tn..’- ' a l\°y ers shall forget- their dufy to
y * Tins old- sr me
fl'k U Ti ave ' beanb flor getting wealth was
■’c-J’7 PfhC ’ ** earnings
<c nj r i * y°<i can get, and keep them,
thph'. m lO (r ° r, Kkt on without regard to
Th • • " it s or Rul f er, ngs of other permit
tut v',:.. Hav ” n ? a ppie iation of the fact
bh i'» cuniu al * ’ n n:av ‘ e impover
take t/i «a f .?L finy ? thers - Now, I will under-
* . therP ls no employer in this bou«e
f r nl dwant to < ’ tart Gut and achiever
Yorwin? 1 /’ 1 ; 21 outrageous t theory,
vr . P 7 aUt - t0 wji.'** your dutv.’X ard I
x-1 / ln T ' J ® ria*;.of Almighty < led and
} a Mi -ous teacher to tell you. ’
k-. 7 1 ' • sar « ? e you, ?oh employer, ]ay as
a-'r/’ a ?? K Pr '- Mi-onabk» and a* ysu ban
iV’ cwarily what others pay:
i. - n r ot w Lat an employe demands v’u
• u >rtbat * sa t> * ar, ny unbearable.
t/,‘ J. V j \ ,J f a p employe to tell you what
•s-Us C’ 11 ! , ’ .'‘“lies your right to - tell him
if a i' - e; L’ ,e -’ i*i ea ls despic
::.anu.‘ ‘ 9 -’ e ‘^ s to demands of a
«r*’-•’ b " n ' you must iayme so much,
r, I,n - ?‘ lr Lu-;ness”—the employer who
• i a 'L ’nand wr-ongs pvery busi
er. u-» a - n 111 “ rc °klyn, and he yields t > athe-
xr Wci l W ' if carried cut. dissolve
affairs trh ru fbv looking over your
n-l.' atyf u can ff°- You rut vour-
- ■ a irna -‘Oation in the place of your la
e.•/, f (I lhen before God and in the pres-
• your conscience decide what vow
shall pav. Be aiso my neighbor pays too
mnch nr too little. that does affect me in my
relation t> the person that to Is for me.
Kunpo?e h' ] ays to > little, that is no excuse
( for my paving 100 little. Suppose he pays
too much, that is no excuse f-r my paying
more than 1 can afford. Having mad)
up y- ur min I what you can right oily an I
I christianly pay. remember tint “God
J bless ycu s 'do uot amount to anything. They
; will not buy shoes they’ will nut | ay tho
rent. At least un eayear go among your
employes and find how they’ live and see the
impertauee of your prompt payment. Yoa
will find that young man supporting an in
valid parent, or a sick sister. You will find
that young man in winter in a place where
he has uo tire, and in the summer in an ill
ventilated apartment sw-ating. When you
come on Saturday morning to draw your
check for your s, you will have a thrill
of satisfaction not oulv in knowing you meet
that young man's wants but that you reFeve
a host of dire necessities standing behind
him. It is not,iny brother, a matter between
you and your employe more than it is a mat-
I ier between you and Almightly God. The
Bible is very exnlieit on this subject an I
leaves no man indoubt. Pay’ wages and iay
them promptly. Malachi: ' “I will be a
swift witnessasainat all sorcerersand agaiir t
all adulterers and against those who oppress
i the hireling in his wages.” Leviticus: “Th ni
i shalt not keep the w ages of the hireling a l
night unto the morning.” Colossians: “Ma -
ters. give unto your servants that which is
juet and equal. knowing that ye have a mas
ter in Heaven.” Do not say as it is oft n
said now: “If you do not like your place get
another,” when you know he cannot got an
other.
Then I charge you also to be careful abvit
, the physical health and about the financial
’ welfare. the future financial welfare of tho
! men who are under your charge. You a'*e
to mold their ideas, .yon are to tell th'tn
| a I unit savings banks, about investment;,
about life insurance. You saw they have not
any’ surplus now; but they will have. What
you teach them will affect their who’e lives
| upon this subject. It is your busi
i ness, it is y’orj* solemn obligation to
teach them these things I am triad
there are men who appreciate this. Such as
. Ma’shall in Leeds, such as Letter in Brad
ford. such as A in Halifax, such as men
in our midst whom I might mention but
i will not. lest I offend their modesty—men
who build concert halls for their employ.es,
organize choral societies, open cricket
I grounds, provide for them lawn tennis, give
them reading rooms and libraries and afford
them all kinds of opportunity, so that those
i employers are not merely paving
wages now due, but through tho con
tentment and good morals of their
employes they are paying from generation to
1 generation and forever. Now, yon are to
look after the physical welfare of those in
your employ. There are banking housesand
there are fact eries and th re are workshops
in this country which simply moan death by
th°ir atmosphere. Yon are supposed t> be
, more intelligent on subjects of ventilation
and sunshine and all the laws of hygiene.
This afternoon at half past 2 o’clock will be
1 buried a man who has done more for tho
health of this century than any ten men in
it—my glorious friend, Dio Lewis. I have
known him hi this country and I have known
him in oth'r countries,and he has been doing
. but just one thing—trying to m dee tho world
stronger and better and happier. His books
I giving advice tn boys and advice to girls and
advice to workman'and advice to all clashes
of people, old ai.d young, have increased the
longevity of this race, of the human race,
j His influence willbe felt for all time. Oh, vni
i ployer, interest youi’self in the physical health
'of those who are in your employ; some
-1 times it may not be appreciated, as in tho
i case, mentioned bj r Charles Reade, when 1 a
' great fan was builtto blow the dust from the
metal and the stone, the dust rising from the
, machinery in a factory, and these men «le
-1 elined to set the great fan in motion, seeming
j to prefer the filings, the poisonous filings,
i rather than to have this great fan working.
1 But while here and there there may be some
■ unappreciative of your toils in their be
’ half. the vast majority of people
lin employment in this country will
thank God and thank you for anything you
j may do for them. Do not put on them any
unnecessary burden. I never could under
' stand why car drivers should have to stand
when they could just as well sit down ami
drive. It seems to m* that all intelligent
employers ought to liefriend the shortening
of the hours of toil in this country. Some
time ago there were a thousanl grocers'
clerks in this city who worked from five
o’clock in the morning until ten o’clock
at night. Now that is simply inhuman.
These employes ought to have time
to go to the mercantile library, to
go to the gymnasium, to go to the
i Young Men’s Christian Association, to
goto choral societies, tog > t > churches. If
they can do their work in eight or ten hours,
; why employ thorn seventeenlt seems to
j me that the intelligent employers of this
i country ought to become sympathetic with
i the early closing movement and with the
i movement in a’l | arts of this land to com
-1 pres< into shorter time the work that is to
: Le done in this country.
i Then I charge you, oh employer, that you
i look after the moral and spiritual welfare of
' those whom you employ. Find out whore
they spend their evenings. What does that
mean? It means everything. You do not
want in your store that young man who went
last night to tea Jack Sheppard. Yon do not
want in your store a young man who shall
come with face ghastly from midnight rev
elry. The young man who spends his even
ing* in the society of refined women, or in
mpsical circles, or in literary employment
ajud the improvement of his mind—that’s the
■ joung man you want in your store. Not
I.by disgusting inquisitiveness; not by prying
I into other people’s affairs, but in legitimate
i ways you can find out where that voung
man sj>en Is his evenings. Aye. if be knows
that you are interested in his welfare,
' he will gladly and frank!v tell you. I
pever shall forget Arthur Tappan. There
>a.ve*be -n a great many differences of opin
ion about his politics, but no man that
ever knew Arthur Tappan well doubted his
earnest, Christian character. In the morn
ing of every day lie gathered all the employes
I of his establishment in a room, gave out a
; hymn, united with them in prayer, and read
1 the Scriptures. Samuel Budget, the wealth
iest man in the west of England, had a room
furnished for the especial ptirj os'*. and he
ha<l in that room “Fletcher's Family Devo
tions,” and Wesley's nymn lx>ok< Then
they would all kneel in prayer, employer and
employe. How many strikes did he have?
When would they strike him? Before
prayer or after prpyer, or while he was down
at prayer ? Do you wonder t hat though that
man thirty years before had been a part
ner in a small shop in a small
village, he died worth his millims, contrib
uting them to all kinds of charity and
philanthropy? But God can tmst such a
mp.n as tfear with money. Sir Titus Suit had
wealth beyond computation, and gt Soltaire,
England, he built and endowed a church and
a chnpel—the church for those whoprefoTred
the Episcopal service, ami the chapel for
th who preferred the M"th > list service.
He xva- about to open one of the factories
ana he had a great banquet, at which there
were 3.500 men. the most ul them workmen.
i In the after dinner speech of that banquet,
1 he said: “I cannot look around me
and see this vast assemblage of friends and
work people without beipg 1 L*el
really honored by the presence of th * noble
man at my side, and I d
nt tho pre-eno- of my work people. I hope
to -raw around me a jopalation that will
enjoy the beauties of this neighborhood, a
population of well-paid, contented, happy
operative.-. I have given instructions to my
ai chile ts that nothing is to ba spared toren-
1 der the dwellings of the operatives a pattern
to the country, and if my life is spared
by Divine Providence. I hope to se* content
ment and satis; a tion and happiness all
, aioundme.” Ah.' that is Christian character
demonstrated. .Many of these employers re
member their own early -truggles. They re
menffer wh -n the fir-t yard of nankeen wa*-
m< asured by their hands, and the first pound
ot tea weighed, and the fir-t baluster turned,
and the first roof shingled. They know at
. sixty or seventy years of age just how a boj
feels between t‘n and fifteen. They know as
j sixty or seventy or eighty years of age just
how a young man feels between twenty am
thirty. Ah! those employers were nol
originally let down out of heaven ou pulleys
of silk in a wicker basket, satin lined, fanned
by cherubic wings. No, no. They started in
the roughest cradle, ou the rocker of which
Misfortune put h*»r violent foot and tipped
them into the cold world. It takes an old
man who has been through the struggle < of
life to sympathize with a boy. Oh. my
friends, uot only be kind and sympathetic to
those who are in your employ, but tee tha
your boss workmen, your head clerks, do not
abuse and maltreat those under them. Thue
are things going on in the cellars and lofts of
our great mauufa during an I com mere al
establishments that are simply outrageous.
There are seme men who get a little
brief authority in store or factory, and th *
strut about as thcuih the world belonged to
them, and they maltieat those under them,
It is your business, oh employer, to kn iw
what goes on in vour <tora. Th"so pon- fel
lows (anuot fight their own battles, thyir
ai-ms are weak how. After a whi’n they <an
take care of themselves. You 1 »ok after
them now. Let no one. however signit! ant.
*ll your enrol ov be imposed upon. Aula
you look into tho fa *es of your cl- rks remem
ber that snne of them have a history.
Ah! that boy was pit*he<l out i:i r o
the world. He is an orphan. H-*
has lx>en struggling for himself. He was
thrown into the middle of the Atlantic Groan,
a plank was thrown a f ter him and hr was
tdd to swim ashore. That young man has a
history—that other young man. He is worse
off than the orphan. His father was a
drunkard. He remembers his father
coming home—and that is ab nit his
first remembrance of him—intoxi’ated,
and many a time has that boy stood be
tween bis father anl mother keeping
her from the brutal blow. Ho looks prema
turely old. for he has to support the familv.
He may look like all other young men. He
is here to-day. He mav look like all other
young men, but Gotland his mother know he
is a hero. Do uot tread on him, d > not swear
at him and do not send him on a useless and
sensei«'ss errand. Say to him “good morning,”
“good evening,” “good bye.” You have that
man's destiny for two worlds in your keep
ing. Do not say: “If he does his work here
th tt is all I have to do with him.’’ God has
made you his guardian. You treat him as
you would like your boy to be treated if you
were dead. My soul sometimes boils with
utter indignation as I see the way employes
are treated in these cities and elsewhere.
May God pity them and God keep them.
There are hundreds of people here
who know what I speak about, and the
truth of what I speak. Ah, my friends, go
further than this. Look after the positive
spiritual welfare of vour employes. You
have their interests in your hands. You
can address them as no one else can They
are bound to respect you. You have the
keys of the establishment. Now, you go
around among them illustrating the beauty
of the Christian religion. You go among
the mill hands, you go among the factory
hands with " a hard spirit. They
can tell. They know. You go
around with that spirit among your
employes, and the wheel of fortune will
turn and you will l>e a pauper, anl your
daughter will go to the wo khouse, and your
son will die on the scaffold. But you go
among vour employes in kindly, loving, sym
thetic. Christian spirit and say to this young
man with pale cheeks and hacking cough:
“You had better go away for two -or three
days, or a week, an l get a breath
of the hills: get fixed up anl then
come back. Your wages will go right
on. You hardly are able to stand up. .Just
go off for a few days.” When a, young man
loses his mother do not demand that he come
back the next day after the funeral. Give
him at least one week to get over that whi h
he will never get over. At the foot of this
pulpit, when I came to the close of a
service years ago, a man stood,
a young man, very Dale. He said:
“This is the first day I have been out
fora month.” “Ah,” I said, “I am sorry
you have been sick.” “Ye-,” he said, “I
heard you preach a sermon on restitution
about a month ago. 1 had taken monny
from my employer and my cons?ience
wrought upon me so mightilv that 1 have
been down sick.” I said: ‘ How much did
you take of the money?” lie said so
much. I said: “Have you put any of it
back.” “Oh, yes.” he said, “I have paid it
nearly all back. If I live a month I would
pay it all ba k: but what w >uld be’ome of
me in the month before I got the money paid
l>a-k if I should die? What would you ad
vise me to do?” I said: “Are yon trying
ri-rht hard to pay it back?” He said:
“Yes. I have paid it almost all back
and in a month I know I shall
pay it all ba’k. What shall T do- Ts |
should go to my employers and tell them—
they are hard m m—l know they would throw
mo out anddi-grace me and my wife and my
little baby. What shall I do?” I said: “You
are sure you will pay itback?” “Ye*, I have
it nearly all paid back.” You are sure von
can pay it in a month?” “Yes.” I said: “You
go on and pay it back. Live with the utmost
economy until you pay it back. You will not
die in this month —you will not.” About a
month after, the man stood at the foot of tne
pulpit, his face radiant. The roses hid come
rack to his cheek. He said: “It is all right.
I have paid it all back.” I said: “I knew you
would. I knew the Lord would let you
live nntil you paid it back.” Oh, do not
be hard. Do not put temptations in th j
way of young men. Do not have money
lying around which shall tempt them in their
necessities. Do not h ive much cash in the
drawer. What would become of us if God
had not given us another chance? Now,
you give that young man another
chance. Do not be hard on those
who have fallen. Give them another
chance. Do not spring on them like a hyena.
Do not call in the police. Take that young
man who has done wrong: take him home;
take him home: give him another chance.
There is many a young man who
has done wrong who will never do
wrong again if you will only give him a
chance. We can afford to give others a
chance. We would have been in perdition
before this if God had not given us another
chance, aye, ten thousand chances. J look
into the faces of a great many employers
to-day, and I beseech you not only go
to heaven y< urself, but take your em
ployes with you. In some establishments it
is almost impossible for a young man to be
a Christian. (ih. how they scoff at him.how
they deride him, how the/ caricature him.
You go into y nr store, employer, and put
your foot down on such Imposition. General
Zethon was oue of tb rt old military comman
ders of Frederick the Great. He was a
Christian. Frederick Great was r»n
infidel. One day this old Gen
eral. white haired. asked to be ex
cused from military service for u little
’while because he wanted to sit at th • If Jv
Communion. He was granted absence. A
few days after. General Zethon, the old com
mander, was dinin ; with the Kin r and other
notables, and the King jocosely said.
“Well, Zethon. how did the If dy
Communion last Friday digest?” Old
General Zethon, his hair as whit as
the driven snow, arose and said: “Your
Majesty. J hav*» impe’ik* I my life a hundred
1 imes on the battle field for you. and there
Ims not b a time in the last thirty v» ars
wh n I would not have fought for your Ma
jesty: but I think you do wrong when
you insult the Christian religion, an 1
forgive me, your Majesty—l, your
old commander—for I cannot sit in
silence and hear you insult my Ix>rd
Jesus.” King Frederick the Great leaped
from his seat, threw out Lis han<l. and said:
“Forgive me, latlrr; you will never bo
bother 11 again ” - r JT?ero are in the e tab
lishments of the e citi’s men who are
just as brave as that old General. They
are trying to serve God, but what
a time they have of it! What
derision and what cari< ature come
noon th r *m. I know young men in New
York and Brooklyn who have been mo t out
rageously maltreated by employers and by
their dates just because they loved ti e
Lord Jesus and were thorough Chris
tians. Oh, the tiin« will come when
you will be done with your buying and
se ling and manufacturing and building, and
God will ask you about those people who
have been in your employ. He will sav:
“Are they here; will they be here?” Oh,
shipbuilders, where will the crew be at the
last? Will they come into,the celestial har-
borl Those men who have been tossnd on
the seas, will they come into the haven
of rest? Oh, ye bankers, aiv tbo-w
men who an' running up anl
down the long lines of figures, and hanlling
the draft i and the checks and the govern
ment securities, are they keeping their ac
counts right with God?' The cnslit account
of mercies received and the debit account of
sins pardoned. Oh, ye drygood merchants,
are those young men who are dealing
out fabrics of apparel fur the foot,
the hand, tho Ua k—are they to
go unclothe! into eternity? Oh. grocery,
merchants, shall your young men who are
dealing out the fabrics, dealing out the food,
the fool for the Ika.lv an I the fool for the
community, shall they at last. *tirvo to
cleallH Oil, manufacturers, with sa many
wh -els Hying and sj many bands
pulling, anl so many new patterns
turned out, and so many goo Is shiprel,
what are tha ar men, what arc the spian *rs,
what are the draymen to do? What will be
their destiny in th' eternal world! I put
this morning unon th? brow and upon the
shoulder and the heart of every manufac
turer in this assembly the solemn obligation
of looking after the pr< s»nt and tho eternal
welfare of your employes. You cannot es ape
from it. God puts it upon you. Oh. let
us live less for ourselves and live m »re lor
others. I think it was three or four years
ago I was in San Francisco and a in m had
just arrived from the San iwich Islands, and
he said one of the Sandwich Islands is
called the Isle of the lepers, aud all
who get sick with the leprosy in other
islands are sent to that islan I. and
all who die there die of lepro-y. He said a
physician on one of tho other islands always
had a glove ou his hand, aud people won
dered why he always wore that glove. None
had seen him without that glove. ()ne day,
this physic.an came to the city authorities
anl withdrew his glove, and said: “Hire
is the spot of the leprosy, lam diomodto
die. I coull hide t his longer, but I am a
physician. It is selfish for mo to hide this
any longer. Let me go to th) Isle of Lepers,
and while my life lasts let me take care of
those who are worse off than 1 am. Send
me to the ls|e of tho Lejiers.'’ Th • city
authorities seeing this, of course were
bound to take charge of him. [a id
tho physi ian bale good bye to his
family. It was a svl goo I-bye.
He knew he would never see them again. Ho
went to the Isle of lxm?rsand t e r? toile! in
tho alleviation of suffering until God took
him t > the eternal rest. Ah. it was magnifi
cent, was it not, for that physician to live and
dio for others Nothing ever sarpas-e 1 it
save the conduct of Him who camo
from his home on high to physician our
wounds and weep our griefs and die our
deaths and turn this leper's Isle of a world
into a paradisaical garden. Whetherjemplo. er
or employe may we acknowledge that spirit!
A Visitor to the Country.
* i
From eity streets to country lanes
The trump once more returns;
On farmhouse food he waxeth fat —
For work he novel* yearns
He Made Thein Twice Glad.
Mr. De Ganno —“And so you like my
friend Rankin? I knew you would.”
Miss Eugenia —“Yes, he always makes
us twice glad when he calls.”
Mr. DeGarmo —“Ah, that’s very nice.
I’ll have to tell Rankin that. But how
twice glad, Miss Eugenia?”
Miss Eugenia—“Oh, glad when he
comes, and glad when lie goes. You
must tell him Mr. De Gurmo.”—7.7/
Bitt.
One Case of Happy Childhood.
2FW
The Affable Person arid the, Maiden
Discreet.
Quoth an affable person in Kent
loa maiden: “What mightlxj your bent?”
But the was mum,
Fopfohe chan-e Ito be dumb.
And couldn't quoth back w< rth a cent.
Said the stranger: “I wot not but what
The weather is—“( Then on the spot
He « iccumlx"l to the hr*a ,
And t* e maiden <lis'-r • -t
Ne»er wotb; 1 just what he'd have Wot.)
_
Not Ouite What He Meant.
Little Brown (a horrid bore; —“Do you
believe in a man’s sighs, Miss Robinson.”
Miss Robinson (tall and stately)—“A
man a size? Yes, certainly I do! I
think no man ought to be less than six
feet in height.”— Lfmdon Judij,
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IBISIS'r upon having tho
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VWLexamine
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I’° rt lblloof
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flo!LSc*(,Qbe,.nAnno
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/ f RhwdvHuf
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antas ths phinti Hg.
eantaala f f yonr drtlCT llflfl not
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‘ATI I <'<n then sec exactly how
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