The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-01
THOROUGH LIFE WORK
Al INSrALMENT or DIR. TwOMB
LEN'S SERMON.
An Able Discourse by the Tcmpurar
Pastor OF the Central Union
Church.

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The christian religion furnishes the
only effective motive for noble life.
Faith in Christ alone can enable one to
do his work las to the Lord The
church ought to understand and per
form the duty commanded by the text
The crying evil from time Is the slight
and perfunctary way i'm which business
and Workmanship are carried out, and
the disregard of thoroughness in all the
duties of life.
The workman says: 1t does not need
the best l can do, to make "a living,
why then strain my body and task my
powers: The student thinks he can
| study little and keep his place. The
| clerk discovers that he can shirl and no
one will find it out. The mechanic dis
| covers that flaws are not always detect
| ed, and SO there is vast amount of
production, not very bad, but which has
| in 1t the element Of ''eye.service;" work
which must be watched: work, which
! Will not bear inspection: work. done
! without any pleasure in it for its own
sake, or any inducement towards per.
! lection, as thing desirable in itself
What then Is thorough work and
what are It's sacrifices and its rewards:
thorough work Is that sort of labor,
nigh or low, which combines a noble,
inward resolve with the outward per.
Torrance. 1t pirates about no rights OF
man, meaning merely the protection Of
shlftless poverty; but 1t transforms the
suck that 1t planes, the bill OF goods it
sells, the garden 1t cultivates, the news
paper edlts, lntoan instrument OF right
eoushess' IL makes the machinery 1t
tends, the book 1t binds, the frame 1t
EliuS' the sermon II writes the lesson It
leaves the invention II pertects, the
mouse IL Dullds' the stitches 1t sets, the
case IL argues, ana the disease 1t tries to
cure, means OF serving God
Huch work Is as complete and finished,
IN It's relation to the workman, as the
oest eNertlon OF Drains ana hands can
make IT, with the time and talent at
collihahu' ouch worker Is the man
or woman VINO IN any sphere puts soul
INTO the work to be done; who lnfuses
into labor the CONSCIOUSNESS of response
biIlty to God, and who measures the
achievement by the standard of work
FOR the Lord This Is the only motive
power, the only inspiration which
makes labor grand and even heroic,
whether the world ever hears of 1t or
not.
One such workman was that humble
potter OF France, whose name was Ber-
nard Palsy, sturdy old Huguenot
who got his perseverance in toll from
the same book that taught him the doc
trine of The Perseverance of Saints,
lie was worker IN painted glass, ply
ing his trade from town to town, study
ing his Bible as he went, till finally,
espouslng the reformed Faith, he set
tied down in the little village of Salntes,
lie soon grew discontinued with his
imitation work. He had seen bit of
enamel Workmanship from Italy and
determined to do perfect work
or none Therefore, to the discovery of
the process for making white enamel he
turned all ms thought. Failure after
failure Osays his blographer) marked his |
enthusiasm Ills neighbors jeered him.
HIS wife became petulant and his
children ciamored Tor bread. The fur.
mace soon burned up all the fuel he
could obtain In his extreme need he
hung the flooring OF his house into the
hames' The furniture soon followed
IT, NO wonder That his poor wife now
became positively Sulky. The potter
was clearly crazy IN the eyes of all
sehSiole people, put cfazy'or not, he
uiScoNereu MS enaihei ana became the
greatest potter III france
"heh we thlhk OF such disregard of
everything eiSe lor the sake OF con-
'''en'iou' "orA' "E may Judge such
N1 car as eA'rehe' anu ye'' knowing the