The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-03-07
Labor. all labor is noble ana holy

'LlUOI, All idDOI 10 nOpic am hoiy
Let thy great deeds be thy prayer TO God"
Work is not great because many people
have heard that we do it. Work is great
because it is lone in a royal spirit. Work
is getting to be aristocratic and not to
work, dishonorable. 1t is not uncharita-
BILE to say that a person who does nothing
is a drone in the hive, and does not amount
10 anything it is the sweat of the brain
and the sweat of the brow that makes us
Somebody with a capital S, instead of No
body with a capital N. Then let us be
glad that we are workers with God, who
never ceases in His benefactions. We live
in a world where every insect and bird and
creature is alw%aysdoing something, because
to do something is to be happy and so,
when the time comes that the true aristo-
Gratis shall make the world something like
a home, and not altogether like a desert
when they come to their kingdom ; when
they have an opportunity for the culture
of their minds as well as the development
of their hands, which they ought to have
when there are no grades in society except
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dustry, grades of intellectual nobility
when there is no wealth that makes aris-
%tocraoy, but when what we are, what We
have done, fixes our place in the world,
then | believe we shall see the world hat
Christ came to bring. We are going to
see it far sooner Than what we think, be-
cause we are living in a time when ideas
get around almost as quick as a flash
of lightning. Every throb of sympathy
from the heart toward such as the "white
slaves" every outraged sense of injustice
that ever stirred a human heart, has helped
to bring about this great time of deliver
ance. We have talked a great deal about
charity. l am glad to live in a day when We
are talking something aboutjustice. Wewo-
men want justice; all that the laboring man
wants is justice and fair dealing all that
these "white slaves" ask is that they shall
not be slaves ; hat rich men shall not give
so much to a school, so much for building
a chapel, and so much for missions, as if
they were great Christian philanthropists,
yet all the time put the thumb. screws of
everlasting stinginess on these poor girls.
That has got to be done away with. Peo-
PIES eyes are being opened. God grant
that the doctrine of Christ, which is ''fair
dealing to others, as you would yourself be
done by" may come to every working mar
and woman in America.
Let me give you my Shorter catechism'
of Political Economy from Ruskin:
sTherc is no Wealth but Life. Life, in
Guiding all it's power of love, of joy, and
admiration. That country is the richest
which nourishes the greatest humble of
noble and happy human beings. that man
is richest who, having perfected the fnnc-
tions of his own life to the utmost, has
also the widest helpful influence, both per-
sonal, and by means of possessions, over
the lives of others. A strange political
economy; the only one, nevertheless, that
ever was or can be; all political economy
founded on self-interest being but the full
fillment of that which once brought schism
into the policy of angels, and ruin into the
economy of Heaven"
Dear friends:
"Your bark is waited to the strand by breath
Divine;
And on the helm there rests a Hand other
than mine,"
other than yours, that steadfast, loving
hand of Him whose hand was pierced for
you and for me, who shall one day hold
the scepter of the world, who cared not for
Himself, but whose very prayer was for
us all. There is no 'sI' in the Lords
Prayer, it is all Eve; it is all the brother
hood of man and fatherhood of God
Frances e. Willard.