The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-07-21
MAKERS RULE
IS LESSON TO STEtzLE.
Workingman- Preacher Tells Of
Life. Lesson He Received
While an Apprentice.
Rule of the Pattern Maker Teach
es That Man Must Square
His Life With Hopes.
BY The Rev. Charles Sickle,

BY The Rev. Charles Stelxle.
My chum was an apprentice in the
pattern shop. Sometimes I would eat
my lunch with him, and then together
we roamed about the shop, studying
the new machines as well as the old
ones. But one of the things that
strongly impressed me was his own
set Of "shrinkage" rules 1 discovered
for the first time, that every. pattern
was made much larger than the mold
was intended to be, because when that
pattern was put into the sand, and
the mold was cast, the casting came
out smaller than the pattern, because
or the sr1nnkage in the cooling metal.
For cast iron the rule was made an
eighth of an inch larger to the foot,
for brass. three sixteenths, and for
STEEL one quarter Of an inch.
But so our models and our ideals al
ways suffer in the work of embodi-
ment.
zBeethoven tells us that his beauti-
full symphony Is but an empty echo
OF the heavenly music he heard in his
dream. It lost its divinest charm when
he transferred 1t to manuscript.
wagon to a star" 1t may be easier
to build castles in the air than to con-
struct huts upon the ground, but the
man who never has vision cannot
even biuld "a hut that will really be
worth while. The dreamer has his
glance in the worlds work, for every
machine and every great enterprise
was dreamed out before it was worked
out. But dreaming and doing must go
together. Each by itself alone makes
man either a drone or drudge.
Especially should the intensely
practical man-that "hard-headed'
fellow-learn to centre his thoughts
on things that are not always to be
found in the work-a-day world 1t
will give him a broader outlook, and
corners that sometimes irritate his
fellows.
That pattern makers shrinkage rule
taught me that if my life was to
square itself with the plans laid out
for me by God, so that 1t would har-
monte and fit in with other worthy
lives and plans, my ideal as to what
| should be and do, must be higher
and better than the average, for those
ideals would suffer previously when
Transmitted into practical everyday
living. If my ideals were higher than
the average, perhaps l would make a
pretty good, ordinary sort of fellow.
An art student once fell asleep over
the task given him by his master. AS
he lay there, the master came into his
studio, and with a swift glance saw
the narrowness of the students un-
finished work. Taking a ,crayon he
wrote across the face of, the canvas
the single word: !. ss'Ampltus -llarger
When the young, fellow awoke he
| grasped his masters idea, and as he
| realized how cramped had been the
| vision of his work, he received a new
! inspiration, and later he became one
or the worlds greatest painters.
AS Jesus Christ looks into every
| mans life, He writes across it the
| word ''larger"-fuller. He Himself
said: Il am come that We might have
| life, and that We might have it more
abundantly.' 1t would truly be fine
| thing to measure up even to the bes
| that has already come to us in ou1
visions, for if we were one half as goot
as we know how to be, we would b.
twice as good as we are.