The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-26

smile until Il is brought down TO sad
nenss aud his very face wears drawn
look. There Is vast
sELFIsHNEss IN TIE ExPENDrTURE OF
MONEY.
Every penny foolishly spent is the
product OF slave labor. Ii not In your
family, then back In some generation,
somebody slayed that we might have II.
Some human body bowed low to supply
every waste. A short caculat on Will con-
vince anyone OF this and II there is
heaIs in us we shall be wary how we
spend, knowing the source OF the in
come. The whoie world has risen on
bowed backs, and the forms that are bent
from the efforts 10 make the next genera
tion wise and good are more beautiful,
viewed by noble soul, than any otner
form OF humanity. Let us not spurn the
hand roughened for US. Ii is more hon
or 10 kiss il than a whittier hand. God
do so 10 ne, II ever 1 fail in respect TO
those through whose devotion to the yoke
have been permitted TO gain something
they had not.
But the opposite side OF this question
is important. Work faithfully though
not slavishly. Sometimes when 60 into
a large establishment / find some whose
fondest wish seems to be the avoidance
OF work. To I'LL out the time rather
than their duties is their only care.
Whoever sells his time Is under as much
Obligation to make his baragin good as
though he gave n title TO real estate
Some who would scorn to sell short
measure, do not scruple TO cut short their
service. A pernicious feature OF this evi,
is the feeling OF many who work for
small salary that their time is worth
more, hence they are not particular To
give all of IL. As rule, persons who
fear they are being worth toe much are
not worth
EVEN THEIR SMALL WAGES.
When you engage TO work. IL at pen
ny day, give good days work. Let
the sin, IL there is to be any, rest with
the employer. Selling days work,
must not deliver days dawdiDg There
by, | cheaper myself not only TO my
employer hut TO my own thought, and
when / talk to myself have the miser-
able sensation of talking with cheap
man.
q We have glided into the second
part OF our subject. A man once came
TO mo who said he could do anything. j
set him to shoveiing. That was not any
thing, II was something, and he couldn't
do it; at least he wouldn't. 1t Is bet
ter TO do something than anything. Ii
is not right to engage in work which
heartily, don't do 1t. Yet notice that
il is the little man who feels above his
work, and [ ne great man who brings his
work up TO himself. A carpenter of my
acquaintance began digging on the forn-
dation OF house, since that was oil he
found 10 do; before the edifce was fin
ished he was foreman OF the work Man
age your work. conquer and ennoble il;
don't allow ii to belittle and degrade
you.
Any true man knows that in sense
his work is below him. That is, he is
more important than his work. IL he
is noble and worthy the fact will be
known. He will not need to scorn and
slight his work SO that men may see his
superiority. Character Is more than toll.
Character outlasts toll. But the manner
of our work is an index OF our character.
The cheerfulness Of mans service will
be more marked IL he knows that ii
will have an end-that he is not to be
AN ETERNAL TREAD MILL
He knows II is a test--perhaps for
thirty years, perhaps sixty, but whatever
he does he viii do II better IL he belongs
to God, for there remaineth a rest for
the people of God. Take the world as you
find it, and make something better OF 1t.
The artists feeling as he looks at his clay
10 not one OF rejoicing that clay Ia clay,
but that 1t is potential art, beauty, use,
glory. A proper faith in the mutations
OF nature from a lower to higher form
~ CudHBo WUlCu uub Deen Chlieu eNoiu-
tion-a faith in this gives Joy TO work
because Il makes the worker sure that
all clay will come to consciousness some
day. He knows that the noblest statu-
ary will be taught to speak, and that
life Will take possession OF the stone and
water and soften 1t into love and service
and eternal being. All work that we
see is preparatory, but 1t has a unity
with the whole, and is essential to the
end. Grind.the clay, stir II, knsad 1t, be-
cause God will use II. Did you ever,
looking at a locomotive, shed tears be-
cause 1t could not thinkf Yet you would
shed tears to see reason depart from q
man. Suppose we had not been created,
but the constituents OF our being were
yet scattered In original dust, and the
spirit had not been inbreathed. We resist
that thought. We do not willingly think
backward. Yet the mind OF God was ex-
ercised upon.
sIIGHTER THINGS THAN WE WORK AT.
And he brought us forth by his wis
dom. we have been given to work on
the same objects. The poorest, most ie-
norant laborer W no casts up q shoveliul
OF earth Is dealing.with the elements OF
up the product OF the soul OF God. Ii IL
raw material, indeed, but God thought
it out. DO not imagine that God has fin
ished with that spadeful OF earth. IL is
yet TO be worked over by myriad
hands.
No history would contain complet
record OF its mutations, and OF the ser.
vice and the glory that shall come out OF
that earth. II belongs to the Lord. IL
is holy; II is mysterious. No scientific
man can tell you oil about II no theolo-
gian can give you all it's meanings and
relations, no prophet can say where its
atoms snail cease and come to nothing
ness. Into what world Its substance shall
GO and from what beginning 1t has arisen
no philosopher can declare. In using
materials our minds deal with things
that may sometimes be exalted above
them, and may have an eternity more
ancient. Creation, instead of falling in
TO decrepitude, is still beg inning. All
work deals with forces that are sacred,
profound and ultimately magnificent.
Life Ia still largely blind and incipient.
We are all infants with eyes barely open,
and comprehending inadequately the
great heaven OF stars toward which we
look up, as well as the bling earth,
that flashes and quivers under mysterious
powers bustion, lightning, cohesion,
and magnetism. The worlds are deep laden
IA l. a has. f~.t