The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-10-31
Too Huch Work.

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people. Indeed. the better-the warm
sr hsartsA ,Asa tlsS t,oOrss 6SdSssisntious
some ppople are, tbs, more they Of
sssd 10 this respect. That 10 . wicked
mexiln, although II. II almost elwayr
| pi0ualy used: ''it IL better to wear out
than to rust out. !" The simple truth
IL. It Is a crime to do either. God ex-
pects every man to do his duty. And
u b every mans dutyto keep - well
as he can. to livn % long as he can.
and TO do ~ much for, Gid aud for
man ~ he can. That he may work.
he must eat. That he NAV work, he
murt sleep. That he may work, he
must rect. That he may work. he
must play. And for man to UNDER
take to work when he ought to be eat
ing. OF sleeping, Or resting, or playing.
n d leaet . wicked ~ toe him % be
dning either Of those things when ne
ought to be ct work.
The desire to get rich rapidly. or the
pride Of doing . large business, lesis
many men to undertake twice ~
much labor q they can honestly per-
form; and then they 60 stumbling on,
robbin9 Themselves NJ sleep, and rest.
spd play. until they break down into
IN insane asylum, or into the grave.
They IRE really guilty Of suicide ~ "
they had blown out their brains with
borse-pistol or swallowed strycb.
nine. We could name q dozen mef.
chauts who have had this exact ex-
peEience within half that number 81
years. IN this very city where we
writs. We cs3ld naMe -oeAsss4 who
came 30 near 70 A., ~ 70 bAve~~saAped
but-by . hairs bssadth; vino now live
and move and have their being. with
the never sbseut feeling that they
mag drop 10 the street any day witt,
paralysis. or apoplexy. It Is q fact ~
signifiesnos which every busy man
GILL d. wsll to hsed, thai almost the
sexs tteW u aeRs In -re9asd 70 Mr..
Gladstone. following the accounts Of
the publication a his Jsvestsss Aundi
with tina p0pnlAr wonder how the pre,
MGR Of EnElasd. = spch day - this.
could find time TO write book on .
purely schoiselfc shsme.is that Of hi.
physical prostitution VIA . fearful
risk. such ~ We have limited at abovsx
- the penalty q ovsrwcrk.
This. nosion that every msraest
nust he '.ssslnlly" ssssplsd. . vsil
enough II you give tissieht meaning
to the word ''useiul.n But. "a . loco
motive Is Just ~ usefuliy employed
when taking In GOALS and water. or
when laid up for needed repairs, as
when II II screaming and scurfying
along the road 1t forty miles an hour;
% the man of businsss il doing NJ area
isstios 70 his work When be spenfs Az
hour 10 quietness. a. when he Is driv
ing his clerks at top speed. Land
needs to lie fallow.s So do brains. To
be sure one can rest often by changing
work; % the grind stone boy rests by
changing hands. But, for al that, II
10 - bad for the man to get all his
head-,est that way. - for the boy
with either hand-to be condemned to
= perpstuai grind.
God rested after he bad worked long
enough; let his people rect, also. Let
them know that there 10 such . thing
~ deseoratiop Of the Lords day. by
too much Sabbath school teaching.
Let thsn sscS that sometimes u h :
mans strength to cit still: thst time
between work devoted to pure recrea-
ton, glsFidss God quite ~ much rs
the work. Let them b, easy when
they have . hard days toll before
them, or behind them. II they do OF
twenty minutes In Q railway train
In ''i.ileness" Let them isel that wis
dom IL the psiaclpAl thing; and that
He that winneth souls II wise; but that
for man 70 burn his life candle at
both ends--even with the idea that he
is illuminating other people thereby
IL not wise. 8s&