Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-05
SUCCESS IS WITHIN YOU
To Own Something,
One Must Earn 1t

just washed. Let no one waste
the food we have just cooked.
1t is easy to be profligate and
with something we our
selves have no investment in;
we do not care for it. But when
our care, which is our love, isl
involved, we become conservative
indeed.
Recently an Indian writer,
Kewal Motwani, sent me a biog-
raphy he had written Of the In
dian philosopher and holy man.
Jamshed Nusserwanje. In 1t he
had written, "Jamshed was eco
nomical, to the point Of being
parsimonious, in personal life.
He disliked waste in any shape
or form.
ION one of the rounds of Ka-
rachi on which he took a group
Of us to show us how the people
lived and the civic institutions
functioned, we came to public
pipe. 1t was a warm day and we
stopped for a drink. AS every
member of the group used the
pipe, he kept the water flowing,
just wasting large quantity of
it. When Jamshed's turn came at
the end, he used one hand I'M
controlling the flow Of water and
the other hand in using it, saving
thereby a large quantity of it.
"His remarks at the end Of
these additions made a deep i'm
preston on all Of us. He said,
Friends, there is a great scarcity
of water in Karachi. Our river
wells have gone dry, as you ALI
know. You have wasted water
that could have served one large
family for a week. Like an &C
complished teacher he had
brought home to us a lesson
which could not be easily lost"
A Great Soul
Jamshed. whose soul had
greater compass than most of us
could hope for, had made hui
manity his work; that is what
he had poured himself into, and
SO it was about humanity that
he cared. Thus with one hand
he controlled the flow of water
and with the other he used it,
saving thereby a large quantity.
We need not go to India to
find love and work and worship
all bound into one. / found It'll
quite dramatically at q religious
retreat I attended in Wisconsin
a few years ago. I went as a
Journalist with 208 men and
women from all over the country
who Joined in a week devoted toI
devotions and prayerful living
Work was an important part Of
this week.
A portion of every day was set
aside for worship through work.
Each morning the men, ranging
in age from eighteen to nearly
seventy, got to work with picks
and shovels, digging shale from
the side of a hill and repairing
roads with it. The women worked
with their sewing baskets max
ing baby clothes to send to needy
countries.
The leader Of the retreat, the
noted missionary, DR.. E. Stanley
Jones. did the humblest work Of
all. During the morning work
session he went about the
grounds with a burlap bag
strung over his shoulder, carry
ing in his hand a stick with q
spike at the end, picking up
paper and trash. 1t was per-
hapS his way Of indicating that
work, whatever it may be, is in
essence noble-even picking up
waste paper and trash.
Work Is Love
I Joined in the work, and
when I had finished swinging a.
mattock one morning sat down
for a talk with DR.. Jones. Here
We would just as leave give up
our worship period as give up
our work." he said. I'VE are
following a carpenters son. We
try to put our love into opera
ton in our work. Work is love
made manifest"
The very satisfaction man
feels when he has worked, and
worked well, is the living indi-
cation that work is good for the
human species. Conversely, the
gnawing inner feeling Of WORTH
lessneSs, amounting often to
neurosiS, which besets the loafer
and free-loader is another in
dication that God intended man
to pull his weight.
Even in the meanest sort Of
labor" wrote Thomas Carlysle,
"the whole soul OF a man is
composed into a kind of real
harmony the instant he sets
himself to work"
CFrom the book: SUCCESS Is WITH
IN YOU: Copyright 1865 by Howard
Whitman; Distributed BY Doubleday
Syndicate)
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