The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-03-11
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before kings Be shAfl DOT stand before
mean ncp. solomon. or who ever col
leoled these proverbs, was no, onv 81 shS
eight hour men who think work is :
oarse 10 be escaped, Aaa wbo NoGls
prefer 90 st bis wife cara The liviog ioI
the family, whlls be weat Abonl Ao stree
smoking . pipe spd preAebiog laboI
reform, short hours, high wages, aud tbs
exclusion OF ppprenlloes. The dillgeut
man is The one who puts his soul into BIZ
work IRE wsges are necessary 90 hF
susssuauce bat the maRwho works onls
for wages, ha poor creature. The man
whose object 10 work is the day : pay
aud that alone, viii nevsrsTiso above the
condition ofA labopr No matter bow
intelligent the workman may be, II be
does not work for the love Of 1t, he is
bound to the condition Of servant al
bis life. lie cannot be diligcnt in busi'
ness, since be is al the time hoping thai
the hour for leaving Off labor will come,
aud very poor stimulus that Is TO dill
Rence. Take for instance the kind OF
labor where the least skil Is required,
that OF the farm hand: The man who
lets himseltto the farmer, aud works only
Tor bic wages, who cares not whether the
COWS give milk, or crops thrive, 30 long
a. be has meals and lodging, bis wages
aud good treatment, is destined to be q
farm lsborer all bis life. He will not
stand before. kisgs, but asa mean man
himself be stands before mean men. His
fellow. laborer is as exacting IN point OF
wages aud good food sud treatment as
the other, but he Is interested In the pros.
perity OF the farm. lie learns Of the
farmer and OF the operations OF agricul-
ture, and ia diligent from love Of the
work, and bis interest 10 success or fail.
ure ofthe different operations. Hemskes
suggestions, aud these are found some
times TO be valuable. Such man is the
one dIligent in business He will be an
employer himself and landowner, and
thrift will follow bis endeayors, for ac-
cordine TO another proverb, The hand
of the dIligent msketh rich.
In the factory, the store, on the sea, or
In any pursuit or calling Of life, II will be
found universally irne that the men who
work for wsges and for wages
alone are unsuccessful men.
They are mere human machines tor labor,
with the great drawback OF discomfort.
Nobody likes to work for money. Iii
slavery almost as degrading as the no.
gro slavery Of Cuba, or that which ex-
sied at the South and was ended by the
war. The minister who breaches for his
SALARY, is poor stick; hc who breaches
from deep.seated and sincere love for
bis calling, is an Inspired apostle.
The boy In tho factory. the printing
Office or the shop, who takes to that be-
cause there is nothing else handy to do,
will never succeed. II he 10 not turned
of the first year, be never rises above
the position OF an underliug. Diligence
in the meaning of the text ia something
more than mere ploddiug labor. 1t
means the active interest which inspires
one to work for the love of the end for
which the enterprise is organized. The
apprentice who is diligent, seeks to nm
derstsnd the methods aud reasons for his
work, and when one works from such
motives hes cannot BOT rise inauy trade
or occupation. a few hours; OF extra
labor are not a. burden, but an additional
opportunity for learping.. Tho child
rem fu school who think every holiday q
gain, and every day Of schooling a task
so much taken cut Of them, are not those
who learn the most, The college boy
who studies as little as possible cosistent-
ly with his remaining in bis ciass is not
the scholar Ii is the youth who supple
neuts the Term time by work in vacations,
and finds bis work a recreation, who
makes bic mark.
The same thing ia true 10 every pursuit.
The very word diligence, shows by its
,etymoogy the moral OF this sermon
Diligence is love fora pursuit, not the
mere ploddiBg work with will. The
men who succeed do not ask for limited
honrs OF labor; he limit Is their own
power OF endurance. II is a good thing
that We are forced le work BY the needs
of The body, tbsl hunger aud cold and
decency drive US, but il is better BY far
when one has love for bis lsbor, and by
this advsnccs the trade or profession with
bis own Intelligence. The men who
stand before kings are diligenl In the
sense Of loving'their work and making II
part OF themselves II Is those that pod
through their labor aud are glad when
the hour strikes for leaving It, who stand
before mean men.