Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-17
Sunday Morning Talk
.THlE. sMILE oN DuTVs EAeE.

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 THE SMILE ON DUTYs FACE.
 h his "ode to Duty. Wordsworth sings of this ssstern Daughter of the Voice of God" Nor know we anything so fair
 As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their And fragrance in thy footing treads.
 If there is really asnaile" on the face of duty. as the poet assures us, many have difficulty in seeing it. The expression we are familiar with is more like a scowl.
 Duty is not the best loved word in the English tongue. It has an saustere and for5fdding suggestion. The thing we ought to do is by no means always that which we love to do best. The forced and unchanging routine in which thousands daily move is held to be a grievance and not a blessing.
 An Oriental traveller, describing the start of a caravan across the desert, refers to the crouching carnels wait. ing for their loads as roaring out their deep. guttural protests against their anticipated wrongs The camel is one among many toilers who fails to SNC l41S OGd0tt u HIS O0IQEn.= xlAS life, indeed, is one long protest against it. In about the same spirit do multi tudeS of the sons of men go to their 6aily work groaning at its hardship and its monotony.
 Although we cannot see it, duty wears an aspect of benevo1ence. The smile is there and 1t won't come off. It is good for most of us to have some thing we must do each day whether we feel like doing 1t or not. If the average worker had to exchange places with the average idler for say six of that time hot-footing 1t back to his old job. It is easy to be fooled at this point. If observation proves any thing, there is more contentment among artisans in oveTaIls carrying dinner pails than among fashionable windows.
 Much Is said of the hardships of these hu labos with thet. karJs. held 70 their work by the aard pinch of necessity and summoned to 1t each morning by inexorable steam whistles, The lot of the average teller is, as- suredly, difficult enough Yet 1t Is true also that the dusty ranks of labor march to a subtle music never heand by 1oafers A whole world of glad ness swarns out Of great mill gates every evening.
 The so-called leisure classes are moi drawing inc big prizes of life. Escap- ing gout, they are pretty sure to sue cumb to ennli. Thousands able to dc exactly as they please might confess Me this uncnarted freedom tsres I groan beneath the weight of chance
 desires.
 Emerson called a nnanss task his ilfs preserver .sGet work, get work. D, sure ,tis better than what you work G | get,9 says Mrs. Browning. On tht | score 61 health alone the wise <physi. scfan recommends his idle patient ts become occupied with some regnlsz 4 Efficiency, too. is . child oe routine I Contrary to the general notion. it Il the pressure of need rather than mag n4nceut leisure that results in the biI Fl achievements. Genius has an ally hunger. MIs3cs art and literature ar indebted to gaTTet$. 1t is when fh artist gains ease and competence tha he must watch 5eaicualy the quality Q l hts product
 Let one thank God for his dutfsa They represent his best Asrd chanc for usefulness and for happiness | Walking along the way marked ou the angels of God will meet him Her he will find his friends make his mod est contribution fo societys and woxi ont his salvation. Blessed ts the xnas [ who has found his work and is doinl , I LARSON.