The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-10-30

Whatever You do, do it we'll A job
slighted because it is apparently unim-
portant, leads to babitual neglect, so
that men degenerate, insensibly, into
bad workmen.
That is good rough job said a
foreman in cur hearinS,s recently; and
he meant that II wss d piece of.work,
not elegant in itself, but strongly made
and well put together.
Training the hand and eye to DO work
well leads individuals to form correct
habits in other respects, and a good
worImen is, in most cases, a good citi-
zen.
No one need hope to rise above his
present situation who suffers small
things to pass by unimproved, or who
neglects, metaphOrically speaking, to
pick up farthinS because it is not a
shilling.
Some of the wisest law makers, the
best statesmen, the most gifted artists,
the most inerciful judges, the most in
geniOus mechanics, rose from the great
mass.
Take heart, all who toll; all youths in
humble situations; all in adverse cir
cumstances, and those who labor unap-
preciated. II it be but to drive the
plow, strive to do it we'll; if only TO cut
bolts, make good ones; if it be but to
wax thread, wax It well; or to blow the
bellows, keep the iron hot. Il Is atten-
ton to business that lifts the feet higher
up the ladder.
Too MueH RELGIoUs ,'GiUsHF-So
says aie New York OtsSr1er DIR. Prime \
thinks Eve Lave had too much Of that
sentimehtal kind Of pity which snow
ridieuled by the appelIation of tie re
ligion Of gush, % and he proceeds thus:
It is difficult, and perhaps needless to
define the word. in such a relation. It
speaks for Itself, is that kind of a reli-
gion which exPends itself in emotional
feeling and expression, while il ignores
the higher life Of self denial, duty, obe-
dienee to tbe laws Of God, holy living
and faith working by love. 1t is a form
of religion supremely selfish, excluding
all sense of III desert, rejoicing in feeling
good, and negieeting the weightier mat
ters OF repentance and new obedience.
We want a revival Of a better religion
than this Aud unless all signs fail in
drought, We are 10 have it soon.
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DIsCoCRTEsY REBUKED. The Boston
Transcript tells this story Of quiet
town in central Massachusetts,, where.
some years sine, quite a famous law
SCHOOL existed Two Of the Law stu
uents. on a certain Sabbath, stFayed'
into the church, whore they were siran-
gers. They walked the whole length to
the pulpit. and not a single pew was
opened, Or a single seat offered TO them.
With qUIet 51nify they turned, marched
ont again, e.pt about nile to thu
school, and tLea, retgr4ing with chars,
made their appearance in the Al e..
They had no trouble, after that, in lind
ing open doors in that church.
A CELEBs 4TED heathen said, Il wrap
myself mp in isiy own virtue" A true
believer has something Infinitely letter
20 wrap hiinse8 ~. When Satan sa 5,
Thou last yielded to my suggestion ;;
when CODseience says. Thou hastturnel
a deaf ear tony sdmOnitions; when tn,
Law Of God says, Thou last brokenme;
when tie Gospei says. Thou hast neglect
ed NE; wh,-s4 Jgstice says, Thou hast in
suited me; Vlpeh Iercy says, Thou hast
slighted ne; Faith can say, all this is
too true. but wrap myself up in the
righteousness of Jesus Christ ToDiqdl
THE Book Of Jasher'' Is one Of the
many lost books OF the Bible" Moth
ing Is certainly known Of it beyond the
two questions from it, one IN Joshua *,
13J, the other in Samuel q SaIa. ], 1S).
from which il Is inferred to have been a
collection OF national songs. The work,
whatever its nature may have been, was
soon entirely lost, and its title and con
tents have been a fruitful subject of dis
cussion from the time Of the first Rabbis
of the Talmud to the present day The
word flasher" is the Hebrew for He
Sang. IL also means Just"
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