The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1916-06-29

! them to give woman's service in the
community.
The New Hope Camp Fire Girls
have taken interest in the hospitals
of Philadelphia and Trenton by send
ing toys to the children, and by send
ing flowers each week to the Saint
! Martha's House in Philadelphia and
clothing to New York.
Love h as been predominantly a
home affair. By applying it to the
community we are going to get a
finer type of community life. 1t
is coming all over the world, but it
must b e organized and brought
about and it will take time,
Miss Rebecca E. Knowles paper
was upon IN o Victory Without
Labor" and some of her telling
points were: AS we look over the
battlements of civilization we see I'M
countable victories for labor, for
truly there is no progress without
labor and no wealth without labor.
What do mean by labor? From
the Chief Executive in the White
House to the foreman of the section
gang; from the man in the Cabinet
to the man in the ditch digging the
drain; from the man who sits in the
office with electric buttons directing
the help, to the man in the overalls
greasing the machinery; from the
director of the huge mail order or
the wholesale house to the clerk in
the country store, or the errand boy
trudging the street we find each in
dividual performing some particular
kind of labor. The person teaching
school, the pupilsstudying for scholar
ship and the college students pre-
pairing for some particular walk of
life, it all requires labor which tends
to better their own lives and the
lives of all humankind.
Physical labor of the goth century
has been greatly lessened by the
mental labor of men of the past and
present ages.
1t matters little what part we take
in the world, it fits under some
branch of labor.
All moral codes say there is maj
esty in labor and truly this is so.
Christ himself taught his disciples
by word and precept that it was
noble to work, and the very fact
that the Prince of Peace was once a
carpenter cannot but make us I'M
; derstand that even the lowliest kind
of honest toll may be exalted.
Henry Van Dyke has beautifully
said;
This is the Gospel of Labor.
Ring it, we bells of the kirk
The Lord of Love came down from
above
To live with the men who work.
This is the rose He planted,
Here in the thorn-cursed soil
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest,
But the blessing of earth is Toll"
Think of the years spent by Mich
ael Angelo, Raphael, Hoffman and
numerous others, toiling necessarily
to produce a masterpiece in art.
Was it worth their while? Through
; all their toll, through all their hard
ships and privations came monu-
ments that have made their makers
famous and have blessed posterity
to this day.
Charles Kingsley gives us beau
, tiful thought in the following lines:
, Thank God every morning when
you get up that you have something
! to do that day which must be done,
, whether you like it or not. Being
, forced to work, and forced to do
your best, will breed in you tenn
, perance, self control, diligence and
strength of will, thankfulness and
( content, and hundred other virtues
| which the idle never know"
Franklin said: Troubles spring
( from idleness, and grievous tolls
I from needless ease"
: Rarely do we find the busy man
r becoming a burden to society for
? any honest toll enriches the life and
e ennobles the mind.
e Then let us say with Van Dyke:
4 LET me but do my work from day
r to day, in field or forest, at the desk
n or loom. In the roaring market-place
or tranquil room;
8 Let me but find it in my heart tt
It to say. When vagrant wishes beckor
h me astray,
This is my work; my blessing, no