The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-14
SYSTEMATIC WORK.
Short Anecdotes Illustrating the
Value OF Method.

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,"Order is Heavens first law" it is
said. Also. Method consists in the
right choice Of means to an end" Here
is distinction, though the two words
cover the line OF thought we wish to
express.
We select Method, because it is the
term used in speaking or all kinds of
business. Without method, little can
be done to any good purpose.
We say of one person, referring to
business, he is methOdical or system
atici OF another, he is orderly, meaning
what the proverb does: "A place for
every thing. and every thing in its
place This is the ground our subject
covers, including, perhaps the thoughts
embraced in another maxim: "a time
for every thing and every thing in it's
time. &"
The benefits OF method are dispatch,
larger achievements, better quality and
greater ease and comfort in work.
There is attraction, even beauty, also,
in a business that moves like the works
OF clock, without friction. The sys-
tematic division of time and labor in
our day, in all large manufactures, is
to secure larger and quicker results, as
we'll as better goods. In an armory,
thirty men (each producing his partic-
ular part Of the muszet) will make
more and better muskets in a given
time. In store where each employee
knows his time. place and work, and
is true thereto, more is done, and bet
ter done. and done at less cost. than
would be possible otherwise. In the
home where time and labor are adjust
cd with reference to the best results,
the orderly housewife, rising at an APP
pointed time, regular as the sun, doing
her work as methodically as the State
department is run, more is accomplish
cd, all is better done, and that home is
more attractive In the school room,
the pupil who yields cheerfully to the
method OF the teacher, observing the
precise time for studying this, that and
the other lesson with books, papers
slate, pencil and other helps arranged
ia order ON his or her desk, will do far
better work, and contribute more to the
success of the school, than the pupil
who is FESTIVE under rigid method and
whose desk Is suggestive of chaos.
Method has itdnstry, puuctuality,
observation, perseverance,. seIfcontrol
and other indispensable virtues in it's
train. 1t can MOI exist without them.
And these it carries along up into man.
hood and womanhood, TO bless the
whole life. Method in early life, as
sures method in later life.
- John Kit1o, VINO was poor boy lost
his hearing by an accident He had so
great a thirst for knowledge that q
benevolent gentleman took him out oil
the poor house and sent him to school.
His strong desire 10 make the most oil
bis time and opportunities, led him into
very methodical ways After little,
he wrote to his bencfactor that che had
reduced his labors TO a system" so that
he might be able to tell where he was
and what he was doing, at any time OIL
the day or week
Ktto carried his method into the ex-
haustinq labQrs--ge- raaRhrs5tI7- When he
-nep,s s.luig 6is "Bible Illustrations, q" anC
othor great works He claimed that i
would have been impossible for him tC
have produced these works without sys-
tematic labor. He was such a thorough
UGAAANGE III iA8lAAOA 10 tta9AAAC us DtAICu
that, in manhood, he required hi.
daughter to clean his study by the fol
lowing rules:
!. Make one pile Of religious books.
2. Another Of books not religious.
8. Another OF letters.
A. Another of written papers othe
than letters.
8. Another of printed papers.
6. Put these piles upon the floor.
T. The table being now clear, dus
and scour it.
The celebrated Nathaniel Emmoni
claimed that he could not work at all
unless order reigned about him. Fo1
more than fifty years, the same chairs
stood in the sane places in his study
and his hat hung on the same hook, thu
shovel on tue north side of the oper
fireplace and the tongs on the soutl
side During all these years, he sat il
the same chair to write his sermons
and the chair occapied the same place
He wore a hole through the floor wher
he sat, so that a new floor for that spo
was necessary. One OF his students o
theology, who resided in his family
says Of his orderly habits;
"One day / was sitting by the fir
with him, when a brand fell upon tn
hearth. arose and put the brand il
its place, but put the tongs on the nortl
side of the Fireplace. The doctor i'm
mediately removes the tongs to tn
south side but said nothing. In
few minutes anoteer brand fell. whicl
/ replaced with the tongs, then setting
the tOngs again on the north side Wit
tho shove. The doctor arose again
and changed tho tongs from the mort
10 che south side. Soon the brand Eel
"a third timo. and, as the doctors move
monts. Appeared To me very singular,
determined 10 find out what they meant
Having adjusted the brands therefore
] placed the tonrs designedly alon
with the shovel on tnU. north. The doc
tor arose. put the tongs in their plac
on the south side aud said.
my young friend, as you are goin
20 stay with me. wish to tell you no
that keep the shovel on the mort
side of my fire and tho tongs on tn
SOUTH"
Students. like business men, can az
complish much more bl this method
ical way of doing than would be POI
sible otherwise.
Cecil, who was q prodigious worker
said:
Method Is like packing things in
boN-a good packer VIII get in hall a
much again as a bad one
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