Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

master, and in proportion to his credit and respectability, and not to your
means or purse. The gentry of the land should rise up as one man against
this disgraceful custom, as the Board of Excise have done against the
bribes taken by their officers. Let a servant, on being hired, hear, "Your
wages for which you agree shall be duly and faithfully paid: I shall not
require the aid of my friends to make up the deficiencies of my servants.
The day on which I am informed that you receive any thing from my
guests, you shall be dismissed from my service." If all agree to act thus,
this grievous tax upon our friends will soon be abolished. There are few
cases where the friendly visit does not cost him who pays it five times
more than his maintenance would have done at his own house.
It is possible for an unfaithful servant to wrong and defraud his master
in a great variety of ways without being detected; but let all such
remember what is here said: "He that doeth wrong shall receive for the
wrong which he has done:" God sees him and will punish him for his
breach of honesty and trust. Wasting, or not taking proper care of the
goods of your master, is such a wrong as God will resent. He that is
unfaithful in that which is little, will be unfaithful in much, if he have
opportunity; and God alone is the defence against an unfaithful servant.
A good servant never disputes, speaks little, and always follows his
work.