. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. he Divine law placeupon the exactions of wealth ! And how soonis the friction between capital and labour eased,as soon as equity takes the place of expediency,and conscience interprets the commercial lawof supply and demand ! -^^ —^- CHAPTEE VII. Subjection of Servants. ,<5fwB , CHxiPTER OF SERVANTS. *^ Servants, obey in all things your masters according to thefiesh.—OOLOSSIAXS iii. 22. HE relation of master and ser-vant, as we have seen in thepreceding chapter, rests uponthe sohd basis of reciprocal in-te
. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. he Divine law placeupon the exactions of wealth ! And how soonis the friction between capital and labour eased,as soon as equity takes the place of expediency,and conscience interprets the commercial lawof supply and demand ! -^^ —^- CHAPTEE VII. Subjection of Servants. ,<5fwB , CHxiPTER OF SERVANTS. *^ Servants, obey in all things your masters according to thefiesh.—OOLOSSIAXS iii. 22. HE relation of master and ser-vant, as we have seen in thepreceding chapter, rests uponthe sohd basis of reciprocal in-terest. After the curse had fallenuj)on guilty man, by which he is com-pelled to ^restle for his subsistence,servitude comes in as a providential method ofbringing the rich and the poor together inmutual advantage. It is a merciful arrange-ment by which the superfluity of the one passesover to meet the necessity of the other, anda hidden harmony is evoked from the very dis-cord of society. Classes, which would other-wise be arrayed against each other in fierce 147. 148 THE FAMILY. antagonism, are thus brought together in thereconcihation of interest. The unity of thesocial fabric is restored, in the community es-tabhshed between its parts. Of course, theadjustment must be effected first of all in theFamily, as being the first society that exists;from which it diffuses itself, by an easy andnatural transition, into all the relations of thewider society into which the Family itself ex-pands. So long as this remains a sinful world,where man is under discipline for a holier andhappier life hereafter, just so long mjist servi-tude, in some one of its diversified forms, con-tinue to be a permanent relation; and in theFamily, where human authority is first enforced,must the conditions of servitude first be re-gulated. The great principles upon which itrests being fully recognized there, will be car-ried over, by a necessary appHcation, to everyconceivable relation in which man rende
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