The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-09-05

was seven years ago, and will be
true and timely a century from now.
| so the Star needs make no apology for
reproducing ii.
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens:
| feel profoundly honored in being
| invited to participate in the celebra-
tion of this day
| If | had the making of the calendar
on which are noted in red letters the
| honorary, patriotic and festal days
| legal holidays which are to be joyfully
| celebrated and commemorated-I
| should put labor day at the top of the
column high above them all.
| Why?
| Because labor is life.
| If there should be a surcease from
| labor-if all men were to stop sowing,
reaping and distributing, even for a
single year-the population of the
earth. the rich the same as the poor,
would die from the bitter pains of
| hunger
| There is a funeral. A rich man dies
| and bequeaths to his immediate des-
| cendants huge bundles of stocks and
bonds and great heaps of silver and
| gold yet comfortable and convenient
| as these possessions are, they do not
| lift their inhertors away from their
| dependence on the man who tolls.
| For the possibility of existence, for
the blessings and enjoyments of life,
| the man with his bags of gold is as
dependent on the efforts and the sue
cess of the man who produces as if
| he didn't own a penny.
Why?
The answer to the question is given
Teacher: Give u.s. this day our daily
| bread!"
| The bread that sustains and is d.
| vinely proclaimed the staff of life,'
| The bread of yesterday will not
| suffice. Like the mamma fed to the
children of Israel in the wilderness,
/ it must be gathered daily.
Human mouths must have fresh
| food-the rich man cannot live on
| the milk, and butter and eggs, left
| him by his ancestors.
| And the command-what is it?
This bread must be obtained in the
sweat that toll produces.
The command to labor was univer-
sal in it's application. There were no
/ favorites and no exemptions. 1t ap-
piled to every human creature when
it was given, and the command is
still in force.
And before giving the command to
labor God himself first set the exam
pie.
| He dignified it, adorned it, beauti-
fled it.
I Listen again:
| When his marvellous creation was
finished, God was satisfied with the
work of.his hands, and pronounced
upon it a benediction.
And we are told that he rested
from his labors,
A man who has never labored has
never been in position to enjoy
rest.
The person who performs piece
of labor that meets and merits the
appreciation of his own heart, mind
and conscience, is in position to en-
JOY that rest which God vOuchsafes
to the -laboring world, and this rest
(which is a perfect and joyful rest
can be obtained in no other manner
And Gods work, how perfect it is
The more it's hidden treasures are
revealed. the more marvellous it ap
pears.
The womb of nature is never bar
rem. 1t never grows old with age
1t is never out of commission. AS
long as the rains descend, the sun
shines, and the earth holds together
it will never become exhausted.
| Flowers will blossom, corn tassel
fruits ripen and the process of fructi
fication in endless evolution will keeI
steadily on. There is no cessation il
natures laws: no stoppage, no retro
gression in her movements.
God, as a designer, architect, build
er and laborer. was no blunderer.
The earth will yield as quickly ant
as abundantly to the diligent ant
skillful touch of labor today as it re
sponded in the beginning, wher
Cain began his first experiments a:
an agriculturist.
In the countless years that hay.
preceded US. had the earth been
million times more populous. were i
million times older than it is. ant
, a million times more populous today
there would still be enough in its ca
pacious and prolific womb to sustain
in comfort every living creature ,ans
an abundance to spare.
: Read the story of creation as re
corded in Genesis, and what do W
J find?
We find that out of the soil of tn
earth-the dust of the ground
: God fashioned man with his ow1
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