Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
Regarding Work and Rest.

Now and then, when am tired when /
have worked long and wearily, and have
had some experience of the attritions of man
with man, and have gained some new light
| respecting the moral condition of imperfect
and unsanctiiied men, say to myself: swell,
you have worked more than the ordinary
| allotted period of mans life, and would il
not be better for you now to withdraw and
give place to younger men, and spend in
! elegant leisure the declining period of your
| life Z" 1t is n temptation of the devil
And wheE | get rested, when l get one
nights sound sleep, and my nervous energy
! is restored again, and my system is rcinvig-
grated, am amazed at myself, and in the
morning | tiagellate the man that l knew
last night. Retire from life 10bserve that
trees keep all their beauty to the closing
periods. How beautiful is the tree when 1t
comes out of winter and puts on all its del
icate tints and shades of green. We then
look upon the tree as though it was a new
creation, and we say "Surcly, God never
made anything so beautiful as these trees
and yet when summer deepens their hues,
and they have become more robust, and we
see what vigor and freshness, and succuen-
cy there is in them, we say after all give
me the summer tints. They are far better
than the spring delicacies." And yet, when
the October days have come, and the last
/ part of the tree life for the year is enacted,
and we see the gorgeous yellows, the rich
| browns and the magnificent scarlets, we say
There, the last is the best" And might
We not take pattern from the trees! Might
we not follow up our youth and manhood
with fair colors and delicate tints to the end
of life?
do not think man ought to want to
rest in this world. He may desire to achieve
the means of setting himself free from phys
icNl taxation. He may say Il will relin-
quish, in a measure, this, that | may trans
fer my activity to other spheres" That it
is proper for man to do. But for man
to retire from life and society after he has
oeen an active force therein, and filled his
sphere with usefulness, and seen the fruits
of his labor multiplied at his hand, and
known the satisfaction of well.spent years
nature itself rebukes it. But many man
at the age Of forty-five years, says to him.
self: IL am worth $500, 900, and what n fool
| am to work any longer | am going tc
buy me an estate in the country, and be q
gentleman" He buys him an estate, and
undertakes to be a gentleman but mar
who has nothing to do is no gentleman
He goes into the country and learns how tC
!
to do. He goes into the country in ortle
to take the cars every morning, and CONF
to the city every day to see what is going
on. And he soon discovers that he ha
made mistake and says What fool
was! thought | was unhappy, Dut / SC
: that was not" And he becomes discon
tented, and before two years have gone h
sells his country place for fifty per cent. les
than he gave, and goes back to the city AM
enters into new partnership, and says
, Il have learned that man had better no
give up business SO long as he is able t
r attend to it," lie could, think. have learr
ed it without going through that practice
, \ man ought not not to be obliged to stun
, Bile upon every evil of life in order to fin
it out. Something ought to be learne
. from other peoples blunders. There al
, enough of thcm.-H ", Beccher.