Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1908-02-04

And those who are going are the
scholars, the authorities, the masters
in surgery.
What takes them there? Simply
this: An old doctor by the name of
Mayo has been practising in that
little town for generation. His two
sons, now in early maturity, practise
with their. father. The fact is that
they have been doing such marvellous
things with the knife, and such fine
work as surgeons, that the great mas
tiers from Paris, Berlin and Vienna,
as well as this country, are singing
their praise, and go out to that little
town to sit at the feet of these men,
and pay homage to the superiority of
their work.
It is always so. If you are re-
membered at all 1t is by the things
you have done well-whether you
have raised a field of corn, sewed
patch on an old garment, made a
pumpkin pie, or written a poem.
Work is the great happiness
bringer. You all know what game
Of nine pins is. You set up so many
pins, and you roll two balls, and you
make strike" or a spare" or else
you d Is i i5rh BINS Is possible. vMGk
become very skilIfuH in it and gain
q great deal Of pleasure by doing 1t.
That Is the philosophy of all play.
| Tt is the erection of artificial d1ficuI~
ties or barriers and learning to over
come them with ease and skill. That
| makes the exhilaration of tennis, and
baseball, and bowling and golf.
am told, and do not know any
| thing about it myself, that therein
lies the mania for making money.
! That is a great game. Now, in
reality, work is just exactly the same
| thing. The difficulties to be over
come are not artificial, to be sure
| but very real But they are there
and work is the game OF bridging
them over with skill and ease and
Joy. ,.n
man there is no game in the World
so exciting and so exhilarat1ng as
his work. l suppose you long
sIffering folk who sit in the pews
and are more or less at times tempt
ed to somno1ence, have never real
lied that there was anything exciting
about the preaching business. And
yet I want to say to you that
know of no keener JOY than when
we'll and ready I take theme and
look it through and analyze it, and
Il illustrate it, and mark out the
points to be made in its tliumlna-
ton, and then sit down to write
sermon. Your fingers will not fly
fast enough. If it turns out well
there is a great exhilarat1on ana
state of happiness and joy. Making
a sermon is a great game.
Now the reason that there is so
| much. happiness In work is because
| of this fact. All true work is man
expressing himself. We have, gener-
aliy thought that work is drudgery.
We want to think about work as eX-
pressing mans message. Stephen
sons engine is Stephenson's thought
dressed up in steel; Tenryson's poem
ia Tennyson'sr thought set down IN
letters; Watts 'Hope" is Watts
heart hunger put on canvas; st
Paul's is Sir Christopher Wrer's
praise to God put into stone. Why
then. shall not ztaas house builder
make his house declare his thoughts!
Why shall not the blacksmith make
his hammer and anvil express his
hope? Why shall not the farmer pub
fish his secret? Almost any man car
learn the technical part of any WORK
, from carpentry. to poetry-but ne
man hath mastered a trade till 1t be
, comes q language through which az
can express himself to all men. o
the drudgery Of life lies in the fac
that we bend above our work Ike
dumb driven cattle with never
, secret OF our heart told in our work
. | And this shall be the Joy of our life
| that we make our vocation proclaim
to all the world the truth that Got
, hath put into pur hearts!