The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-01-23

product OF their hand ana Drain live forever. with
them all work was form of worship. And the world
today needs less metaphysics and fewer systems of
theology and more of the religion of work. To do
what the hand finds to do for other than
that it is set before you, because your bread and
butter depend upon your doing it, is to put yourself
for the time being the same level with the dumb
brute, which tolls for like rewards and reasons.
To work with the hands alone is to find life
dreary business; to put the heart and mind into
what there is to be done is to catch glimpse of
heaven To work from necessity and not from
choice is to be eternally dissatisfied with your lot.
to be eternally longing for future you are not
creating and could not appreciate did it materalize
to spend life chasing nebulous dreams. To work
because you for it, because it brings you Joy
and forgetfulness, is to create-to let the God that
Is in all men conquer the BRUTE
| To enjoy work. to do something worthy of pride
is to live and to live for purpose; to nothing in
honest toll except an irksome duty which must be
gotten through somehow is to exist-Eke proto-
plasmic germ or white maggot Nay! it is even
below these, for the maggot and the protoplasm
doing their work in the world and both potential
energies.
The man who as Gilbert Hubbard puts it, has
not 'found his work is bore to himself and to the
whole world His existence is series of yawns
punctuated by sleep. thirty minute wait in
railway station teeming with life and human inter-
ests, is appalling prospect to him. the only real
thing in his world is ennui. By curious 1ncon-
sistency such chafe much at the fight of tire
They would, were it possible check the speed of the
great deliverer- presumably SO they might have a
longer period to bore and be bored They bend
beneath the burden of the barren months and years.
but pale at the rapdity with which the useless days
NV Tn tha ick Of knox
nothing of the JOY of work we'll done.
"Art'' to quote Mr.. Hubbard again. lis the ex-
preston of mans Joy in his work. Work is the
expression first of life and then of religion. Find
congenial work, make it part of yourself and you will
be not only an artist, but religious man.
| A CERTAIN class Of people appear to have
idea that when enters politics his moral
epdermis becomes thickened at once that his views
as to right and wrong warp and shrink like green
wood in the light that umines his position in
society," and that he has mis- price, the saying goes
as soon he steps into the The idea is not
peculiar to prisons by any but is particularly
prevalent in places of this kind. 1t is fruitful
cause for discomfort for men believing it feel that
had they had money influence at the time of their
trial they might have escaped punishment Con-
fnement narrow mndedness and deferred hope all
Of00O many u0luSiOHS, Out HOHo SIohGeI CHdH CHiS
The foundations of this beautiful, broad country
of ours do not rest the shifting sands of dis
honesty any today than in the past The
government was founded by of noble and up
right lives, men of aniinching honor and integrity
whose "price'' was love Of their country men with
the fear of God in their hearts; and it is being
carried by their Legitimate successors 1t is true
that through loose immigration laws and peculiar
environments the riff raft of the old world has been
able to govern certain American cities for limited
length of time; and while in power it may have had
dealings with the under world" which would con-
vince the latter that the government of that particu
lar locality was corrupt; but to judge the country by
the conditions Of city, two cities, is like con-
Guiding that man is hopelessy diseased because he
has cut on one of his hands. To say the least, it
is cheap sort of diagnosis.
Men of prominence always subject to criti
csm and SANDER and this is particularly visible in
this country, where there bound to be malcon-
tents no matter who may be chosen for office. To
doubt the ability of the choice of the majority to
doubt the wisdom of the man, or the principles he
stands for, is the privilege of every American; but
because his views do not coincide with yours, to
insinuate that he is dishonorable or dishonest is
outrageous 1t shows hopelessly un American not
to speak of un-Christian spirit and mind that is
working along the wrong lines. edo others or they
will do you" is clever no doubt but is absolutely
false edo others and you will do yourself" is
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