Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-07
PULL YOUR OWN WtIGHT

It was an aphorism of the strenuous gentleman who lately held our Uncle samuers biggest job. And the mean ing of it is clear. The ship of life is built like a Roman trireme, in which each one who rides must tug at an oar. We are not to travel as idle passengers.
 lnrthe diction of landsmen, the colo nel meant that each of us ought to put into life as much as be takes out | of it, a sentiment that finds a re- sponse with earnest people every 1 where. We are ambitious to do as much as that surely. We would not wish to be simply burdens on society.
 In describing class of able-bodied ! idlers, good old Isaac Watts once wrote some lines that do not appear in the authors hymn books:
 There is a number of us creep | Into the world to eat and sleep, And know no reason why we're born, ! But Cnly to consume the corn, Deyour the cattle. flesh aud lsh,
 And leave behind an empty dish, l And if our tombstones, when we die, Be not taught to fiatter and to lie, There's nothing better can be said | Than that he's eat up all his bread, Drunk up his drink, and gone to bed. If there were enough parasites oi this kind they would bankrupt the world.
 l In contrast to all this there Is some | thing rather fine in the sight of even a prcsaic labOrer going home at night. fall, swinging his dinner pail and ! with the marks of toll upon hiEI | Whether he has laid bricks in a | building, or tended a loom, or stood | behind counter he has been justify ! ing his existence as a productive mem | Der of society; he has been pulling his 1 own weight
 i My friend, can you make a pair of shoes or set a pane of glass or cook a | good dinner? If you can do any of these things you nave something to De proud of Can you run a locomotiye | or market some commodity or draw | lp a will or teach arithmetic2 Along i the line Of these accomplishments | you can make your contribution to the needs of men. You are DO lazy passenger; you are pulling your own yeight
 l It is good to think of each mans 1 vocation not simply as his means oi | paying his board bill, but as his means Of doing good in the world. His Jot IS the zIedium through which nc makes his contribution to humanity | lt used to be thought that every ! youth who desired to live a life O, | service must enter the ministry. We l see now that every honorable occu 1 patton is a chance for service. Al
 -seful work or hand or brain may bt 1 entered upon in the spirit of consecrs l ion.
 The praises of labor have often beer sung, but fl labor is to. be truly gloTi oas, il must have about it just thiI ! ouch of idealism. We must see tha ! somehow it contributes to human well leing-in physical, mental, moral O i spiritual ways The man who hat been employed at fair wages to strikt tree stump with the butt end of al ax finally threw up the job in disgust 
 T want 10 see the chips fly" h.
 said.
 Surely the most happy and effectiv,
 work in all this world is animated b, the thought, We are laborers togeth
 CT with God" We are partners witt
 he Eternal A great city is bein. 1 erected here in this earth, the Hol.
 City, the New Jerusalem" and it re quired all sorts of material to build ;
 city. The honest contribution of an.
 worker, no matter how humble, is aC
 cepted and used. Your bit of worl
 mas a place in a stupendous plan: I
 Is this nobler conception of our toi
 that gives it dignity and worth ani
 makes the dusty ranks of labor il ] very truth the regiment of God"
 THE PARSON.