Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-07
THE SALT OF THE EARTH
By DR.. Frank Crane

Ny LIZ 1 ldIAN >ldlIN
F. Who are the El.ct?
,Iis.Y are those who want TO find out their
lay and do it.
they think they are pvt in this world to Do
'om=thng, ard they try to do it.
There are always plenty whose purpose in
lie seems to be play They conceive If them
selves as here to be entertained. This is the
theory of children. But to the right sort of
rerson this is among those Childish things"
that he puts away with maturity.
There are multitudeS whose aim appears
to be to get more money, and their work is
only an unpleasant means of attaining that end
SO they work as little and as poorly as pos
, Sbe and always under protest. They SOr-
ny for themselves. This is a wide class in
Guiding grumbling crooks. grating and SOL
diering chauffeurS, piddling and dawdling
plumbers and carpenters, and the whoe range
of crooks, grafterS, confidence men, ward
heeerS, miSerS, and so on.
And there are those who want to know what
| Their Job is, and having found it, to do it
! we'll
There are more of such than imagine.
! This war showed US some two or three mil
| lion young men who suddenly awoke to the
! realization that a great work was up to- them
PERHAPS to die-and they marched away
The spiritual revelation of the war was the
enormous amount of latent conScentio1 ness
we had on hand.
The u. S. A. is full of fine men and women
! who are saying, perhaps through clenched
| teeth, perhaps smiling, "ThiS is My job and
| I'll do it,
Women, unhappily married, their dream shat
tered, their hearts col" and numb, are being he
best kind of wives they know how, are being
faithful mothers, are keerin0 straight and clean,
because thew feel it's Their IOl,
Men, too, who discover too late they have
picked the wrong women, are going ahead and
making the best of a bad ba gain, beca l5e
! that's Their Job.
Clerks are doing well tasks for which they
know they are not fitted girls are getting along
with nagging mo- IerS who don't understand
them merchants are honestly carrying out con-
tracts they wish they had not signed parents
are bearing with ungrateful and cruelty thought
less children, clergymen doing their best in
churches that don't like them, actors are play-
ing parts unSuited to their talents, public Off
Gals are performing their duty in spite OF
storms of malicious and unjust criticism,
hOuSemaidS are working day by day fC mis-
treSSeS that are tyrannical and petty, and women
and men are putting up wifi I manner of in
science and incompetence from those to whom
they are paying tn wages OF good work, all
Because it's Their Job
The world is full of unntted heroes.
These are they that see their responsibility
and shoulder it.
These are they who shall get fat pa en-
velOpeS on the Day Ct Judgment.
These are they who fight the good fight.
These are the salt of the earth, am if the
salt has lost its SAVIOR Wherewith shall the
earth be sailed:
Ladies and gentlemen we have with us TO-
night little company of the elect. 1t is only
on their account TIL. ar angry and disgusted
| Deity does not burn up this SOdOm and GOmor-
rah globe and have done with it.
| The salt of the earth--do you know any
! of them
Copyright, 1919, 6v Frank Crane)
Two golf f1ends, an Englishman and a
Scotchman, were playing a round together
After the first hole the Englishman asked
How many did YOU take?"
Eight" replied Scot.
''Oh, took only seven, so it's my hole
exclaimed the Bnglshman triumphantIy.
After the second hole the Engishman put
the same question again. But the Scot smiled
knowingly.
ma, ma, ma mon, it's ma turn to ask
! first"