Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-06-22
Systematic WORK.
Short Anecdotes Illustrating the
Value Of Method.

OuONO Au0CuOt6B lIluBCraJlu8 tn0
Value Of Method.
"Order is Heavens first law" It is
said. Also. Method consists in the
right choice OF means to an end" Heus
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 OF 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
attic; OF another, he is orderly, meaning
what the proverb does: IA 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: IA time
for every thing and every thing in its
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
well as better goods. In an armory,
thirty men (each producing his partic-
ular part of the musket) will make
more and better muskets in a given
time In a store where each employe
knows his time, place and work, and
is true thereto, more is done, and bet
ter donc, and done at less cost, than
would bo possible otherwise. In the
home where time and labor are adjust
ed with reference to the best results,
the orderly housewife, rising at an ap-
pointed time, regular rs the sun, doing
her work as methodically as the State
department is run, more is accomplish
ed, all is bettor 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
in order on his or her desk, will do far
better work, and contribute more to the
success Of tho school, than the pupil
who is restlve under rigid method and
whose desk is suggestive OF chaos.
Method has industry, punctuality,
observation, perseverance, seli-control
and other indispensable virtues in its
train. 1t can not exist without them.
And these il carries along up into man
hood and womanhood, to bless the
whole life. Method in early life, as
sures mcthod in laterlife.
John Kitto, who was poor boy, lost
his hearing by an accident He had so
great a thirst for knowledge that a
benevolent gentleman took him out of
the poor house and sent him to school.
His strong desire to make the most of
his time and opportunities, led him into
very methodical. ways. After little,
he wrote TO his benefactor that 'he had
reduced his labors to system" so that
he 'might be able to tell where he was
and what he was doing, at any time of
the day or week.
Kitto carried his method into the ex-
haustlng labors of manhood, when he
prepared his "Bible Illustrations, y and
other great works. He claimed that it
would have been impossible for him to
have produced these works without sys-
tematic labor. lie was such a thorough
believer in method to assure dispatch
that. in manhood, he required his
daughter to clean his study by the fol-
lowing rules:
l. Make one pile of religious books.
2. Another of books not religious
8. Another of letters.
4. Another of written papers other
than letters.
5. Another OF printed papers.
6. Put these piles upon the floor.
Z. The table being now clear, dust
and scour it.
The celebrated Nathaniel Emmons
claimed that he could not work at all,
unloss order reigned about him. For
more than fifty years, the same chairs
stood in the same places in his study.
and his hat hung on the same hook. the
shovel on the north side Of the open
Fireplace and the tongs on the south
side. During all these years, he sat in
tho samo chair to write his sermons,
and the chair occupied the same place.
lie wore hole through the floor where
he sat, so that new floor for that spot
was necessary. One OF his students of
theology, who resided in his family,
says his orderly habits:
"0ne day was sitting by the fire
with him, when a brand fell upon the
hearth. arose and put the brand in
its place, but put tho tongs on the north
side Of the fireplace. The doctor inn
modiately removed the tongs to the
south side. but said nothing. In a
few minutes another brand fell, which
/ replaced with the tongs, then setting
tho tongs again on the north side with
the shove The doctor arose again
and changed the tongs from the north
N tho cotth cida Coo,, tbo h..n,.d foIl