Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-04-28
Beecher on Work.

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... Beecher on Work. -,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectur cd il
Boston, not long since, on Labor -
Among other things, this is what he said:
In view of the, dignity of work, l say
that all men in this country ought to be
taught to work with their hands. Tha,
they should be taught to think, that their
brain should be educated is 10 be inferred
But hold since work is dignifed and
noble, creative aud benefcent in its uses
that American education should always
include init sufficient training to make
every person baud worker as we'll as
brain worker.
The. Jews have proverb that be who
brings up his chriIdren without a trade
brings them up to steal am half jew
on that point. II is certain that 10Y is
neglected of his parents who does not
know how 10 work, and feels above work.
Whenever you see man whose duty it is
10 work, who feels, above his wotk, you
may be sure that man is. not fit to 60 any
| higher, for no man is ashamed 10 do that
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instrument to do the divine work in this
world. lr .H ir' .--r
There is no feeling SO peculiarly un
American as shame.o work. 1t is foreign
vice; it is vulgar; ;iit has 20 business here.
The man who does not know how to work
ought to be ashamed ;the man who knows
hoy ought TO be proud Of it. 1t is noble
for man to carry himself up. Any man
who inherits wealth is like a man who
preaehes his fathers sermons Laughter
add applause If one inherits wealth he
may excuse himself for being ashamed of
work. L have noticed that men who are
born wealthy are seldom troubled With
that shame. They are usually meu who
have good sense in the matter of work.
and are quite willing themselves to toll
when it is proper.
Every American child should know
how to use his hands ingeoiously. No
American boylis educated, nobody deserves
the khonorable appellation of, Yankee,
who cannot use the axe the spade, the
plow; who cannot yoke AID unyoke oxen
harness and drive a team, who has not
sufficient knowledge of tools to perform
@.
A true Yankee never sees any thing
done that be does no: steal the trade with
his eyes, aud imagine how he would do it
himself ata pinch aud Improve upon it,
Tie wiil do anything---sew on buttons, shave
sick man, cook q beef steak write q, ser.
mon. listen 10 one, or any other, drudgery
that society may impose upon him. This
fertility and facility in work digni6es the
American, aud universal thrift follows uni.
Versal industry and ingenuity. fr-.-a.
This necessity apd propriety of work
has peculiar relations to Us in the growing
exjgenceS Of our civilization, for we stand
at a time when the house hold is displaced
from one tendency andrstate of society, aud
has not fairly settled upou another. When
service was class necessity, then the
household W blessed ia faithful servants
aud when all from the bottom to the ton
OF society shall be thoroughly intelligent
then subordinalion of work will give to US
again useful aud trustworthy assistants
But we are living at at period when
work aspires, but has not attained; and
the result is, that in every household com
plants are uttered Of the ficulty of pro
curing work h- -g r,-... o.. 49,.
The best remedy that can PROFOUND is,
10 go back TO the doctrine and practice of
our mothers and sisters. l remember the
lime hen the morning woke with the
mothers Voice-the sweetest bell that ever
rang at the stairs to call the children
up, when the table was spread by her hands
or her daughters; and when, sometimes,
the boys we're put 10 the task, and all
through the morning still she toiIed and
sapg aud conyersed upon hemes worthy
of womanhood, Christian womsuhood; and
when The noon meal was cleared away, ,aud
the bright afternoon sud poured its full
light upon the door yard and the kitchen,
mothers aud sisters sat reading and sewing;
aud after the transient evening meal, the
lamp sitting on the table, tho hearthstone
glowing (if it was winter as again she
gathered around her circle Those were The
days when there was health among woman
and virtue and womanhood OF which re have
DO occasion to be ashamed, even in these days
among our mothers and our sisters md if
there was more work in the household To-
day, Think there woC.d. be fewer com.
plants against fore. .sn servants and fewer
complaints for home doctors. TLaughter
aud applause.