The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-26
FACT AND FANCY.
observer" Emphasizes the Nobility Of
WORK.
Greeurille Ne,rs.


The word school means leisure, but
school means work. The word carries
"reminiscences of time when only
nhysical effort was accounted labor,
mental work being counted as repose,
ipaction.
AS matter of fact mental effort has
ever been as difficult as it is to the
modern school folk. The stubs Of
frayed rods stored away 10 tbs archives
of unfofgotten feathers tell pathetic
story ofEthe hsrd work to which chill
dren we're driven. Facilities for study
have been greatly improved, coercion
has been almost eliminated from the
disciplinary methods Of the pedagogue,
being rightly superseded by persua.
sive methods; but no device can be
found to make the school place of
leisure, retreat FOR loafers. "a for
mer generation made reading or mem
orizipg penalty for Sunday disobe-
dieuce. For severity the Bible study
far excclled the birch rod. The school
is place scs discovering, testing,
classifying and disoipling power. It
is training place for skillfuI work,
and no buster section of society can be
found than the student body of the
land.
Successful, and even unsuccessful,
work in school is simply one stage,
an initial stage, of the discipline of
life. However high the efficiency at
tained, it is but preparatory and par
tial. The throngs Of youth issuing
from the schools, conscious Of power,
touched in occasional instances with
"big head" will not be idolized by
the hard-working, irreverent world.
College credentials will be created with
shocking disrespeot. The hard hands
OF the toilers will tear of the caps and
gowns and set the graduate to COM
mon task that will work off the conde-
scending air Of superiority, puncture
the "big head" to provide for the
harmless escape Of conoeit into the
ethereal region; will welcome slowly
those who try their honest best to do
their allotted work. No ten-dollar hat
can so veneer Q ten-oent head as
to deceive the arguB.eyed busy
world. .
From the class room and campus
the idler is expelled. The idler is
mercilessly ostracised every where. He
is warned away from every place Of
work. He is forbidden briefest men
tion in the annals Of the race. For
him no plate is turned on the tables
where life's workers feast every day.
Whose will not work shall not eat, is
a law both human and divine. Whose
flies from work becomes an aimless
wanderer through space, centrifugal
fragment Of creation spurned BY oil
the spheres. s3
God is a great worker. His work is
never done. He never grows weary
in His work, never ceases to work.
For Him mans day Of holy rest is a
day Of holy work nnabated by one
smallest pound Of energy. He is not
living apart from the race and the uni
verse in state Of restful inactivity.
Once for all He. incarnated Himself
among men as worker, common
carpenter. The Nazarene carpenter
manifested in time Gods eternal fell.
lowship with all true workers, the
glory of commonplace, duties. Hhfy
Father. worketh hitherto. and work"
is the cry OF sonship. The carpenter 8
bench is no less buttressed by omnipo-
tent energy than the pulpit.
The idea that labor is degrading is
wrong and harmful. All right work
at bottom is one and links one to God.
Work is not penalty, curse to em-
bitter human existence, dreadful
something to be escaped. Work is
normal and eternal condition of weii-
being. Even the unfallen angels are
servants. Heaven Is &C place for lazy
people. for laziness is immortality. 1t
is place for work without pain, dis
appointment or wickedness; place
Tor intense, joyous, wise work. Nov
and evermore the sure and highest re-
vi ward for alright work is more work.
The faithful worker is in the line Of
promotioE TO greater service. Life
means work; it lies aofoss field oe
battle. Characteris achieved through
struggle and stress and storm.
Life ,wishout effort is inaue, mo.
notonous. tits far better 10 win ono s
support from tho unwilling earth than