Not content with controlling only the economic interests in the town, the coal companies also sought to actively manipulate the personal lives of the miners. What the owners realized was that the seeds of rebellion and discontent often grew in social organizations such as the church or the school. Just as plantation masters monitored the religious services in order to make sure that the proper message was being conveyed, so did the coal mining owners in a coal town. Any ministers or teachers failing to support the views of the coal company were immediately removed from their position. One coal company which was especially diligent in its efforts to influence the minds of the miners was Borderland Coal Company which operated in West Virginia. This particular company distributed circulars which used the Bible to further their views on the necessary submission of miners to their bosses. One of these circulars stated that a person should "read what the Bible says about the busy-body and the fellow who does not work." This same source goes on to quote from the Bible, "Let us many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor…" By presenting the situation between boss and worker as a religiously sanctioned relationship, the mine owner hoped to persuade the miner to accept his lot of submission as a biblical design.