. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. CHAPTEE YLAUTHORITY OF MASTERS. Ilasters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.^ COLOSSIANS iv. 1. HE lowest relation in the domes-tic state is that of master andservant. The question is nothere as to the form of the ser-vitude; for the instructions givenapply to all forms of it alike. We donot care to perplex this discussion byso much as touching the vexed question ofslavei-y; which, fiom the statement just made,would only be a digression upon a side r
. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. CHAPTEE YLAUTHORITY OF MASTERS. Ilasters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.^ COLOSSIANS iv. 1. HE lowest relation in the domes-tic state is that of master andservant. The question is nothere as to the form of the ser-vitude; for the instructions givenapply to all forms of it alike. We donot care to perplex this discussion byso much as touching the vexed question ofslavei-y; which, fiom the statement just made,would only be a digression upon a side reader would neither be interested norprofited in such an excuision over a field both thorny and baiTen, and sown \\dth theworst passions which fanaticism and bigotrycan engender. It is, however, plainly assumed 123. 124 THE FAMILY. that, in some one of its many forms, servitudeis a permanent relation, in all the conditions ofhuman society. Whether the distinction wouldhave obtained if man had never fallen, it is,perhaps, idle to enquire; since there are nodata for speculation as to a state of things tous now only imaginary. We have always sup-posed it one of those infelicities in life,whi3hcould hardly find place in a society absolutelyperfect, and among beings who were entirelysinless. We know that it is not the method ofgrace to take evil out of the world, but to trans-form it; softening and sanctifying it into ablessing, by making it a part of a general dis-ciplmary scheme, whereby men are fitted forhigher destinies in another world. We knowthat neither j)overty, nor pain, nor weakness,nor disease, nor sorrow, is taken away by grace;though all are sanctified into a mighty and lov-ing discipline for good. So servitude, evolvingitself from the curse of labour, is simply one ofthose adjustments o
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