The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-05
Written for TIE DEMOCRAT
GOOD IN OTHER PEOPLE.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS WORE.
By REV. JOHN f. WHITE.
By REV. JOHN F.. WHITE.
no. II.

an article in recognition of those good
and useful traits" which ] see in some
other callings than my. own.
| comply with his request readily
and gladly for two reasons. First-Be-
cause | believe it to be true, as the edl-
tor observes, that men are disposed to
underrate the contribution which others
make to society and to magnify their
own / would delight to do some part
in correcting this evil tendency
Second-Because | do see in other
men and in the professions of other
men an abundance of valuable and
necessary good. / am willing to ac-
knowledge, even pay tribute to it.
! We hear it said that it takes all kinds
of folks to make world. 1t certainly
requires many callings to do the work
of a civilized world and to do it without
friction and in the best possible man
ner. The best results were never ac-
| complished by the "Jack of all trades"
In nothing does the wisdom of the
Creator appear more manifest than in
the great diversity of occupation we see
around us. For the widely differing
endowments of men he has provided
for eacn a kind of work suited to his
beat. Were it not so the wheels OF
progress would clog and human society
instead of being happy arrangement
and an arrangement for happiness,
would become a vast machine of dis
contented and rebellious parts The
result would be disaster
If the right peg gets into the wrong
hole, the misiit is not the holes
fault. That he who ought to be doc
tor becomes sometimes a lawyer In
stead, and he who ought to have been
a lawyer becomes preacher, is not the
fault OF the wisdom that made the pro-
fession of medicine but the fault of him
who made the mistake of missing his
calling.
There is mutual interdependence
between all the professions. No mat
ter what a mans work is he is able to
pursue that work successfully only be-
cause of the support afforded him by
men engaged elsewhere and otherwise
There ought also to be mutual recOg-
milton of this fact-that the man is
public enemy who strives to array one
procession against another. The
worker everywhere is every other
workers friend No matter how far
apart, this thing is true.
Carlyle has drawn true but sad
picture of body of peaceful English
peasants, who are disciplined and drill
ed and dressed in red, and sent away to
Spain and there placed opposite to an
equal number of French peasants also
in uniform with guns in their hands.
At the word of command both parties
fire and thirty men on either side fall
dead "And," quoting his words, ''ln
place of sixty brisk. useful craftsmen
the world has sixty dead carcasses which
it must bury and anew shed tears for.
Had these men any quarrel? Busy as
the devil is, not the smallest. They
lived far enough apart. were the en-
tirest strangers. Nay in 50 wide uni
verse there was unconsciously some
mutual helpfuIness between them. How
there ? Simpleton.
Their governors had fallen out and
instead of shooting one another had
the cunning to make these poor block
heads shoot"
And Carlyle is right. Not only Is
this the history OF two thirds OF the
wars that have been fought, but of
nearly all the social conflicts between
different classes and caHings.
But the editor invited me not to
philosophize but to select some profes-
sion other than my own and tell what
things to be admired ! should find.
1 select only one There are others
many others-worthy a better pen than
mine. But one will be sufficient to
show that we do not always recognize
our Indebtedness to others and that