Saturday, January 8, 2011

Treat your servant as you would your brother

Saturday, January 1, 1763. A woman told me: ‘Sir, I employ several men. Now if one of my servants will not follow my direction, is it not right for me to discard him at once? Pray, do you apply this to Mr. Bell?’ I answered: ‘It is right to discard such a servant. But what would you do if he were your son?’