Show WORK GODS FIRST FIRSTI I GIFT TO MANKIND Rev Herbert E Hays Points I Out Initial Act of J ovah J OTHER THINGS NEEDFUL REVERENCE AND OBE OBEDIENCE OBEDIENCE ALSO REQUIRED That the tho first thing God did with man was to set him to work was the statement made in the sermon preached b by Rev Herbert E Hays in the Third Presbyterian church last night His text tex was wasAnd wasAnd And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden Edento to dress it arU to keep During his address Rev Mr Hays said The first thing Go God did with man was to sot him to work He expected him to work He expected him to do other rest to play to wor worship worship ship but he also planned for him to work worle God had already given man a good example in this regard In the creation and development of the world Christ his son was a worker whether at carpenterIng or at healIng bodIes or r savIng souls There are many kinds ot of work Let no man despise another because his Work Is different from his own Let the and the brainworker march side by side as brothers and as servants of God AU All effort of what whatever whatever ever part of mans being Is work and should be recognized as such The text shows that work was given man before sin rin entered the world and so work cannot be regarded as a pun punishment punIshment for sin sill Work is more bur burdensome because of sin but work in Itself Is closer to morality than to Im Purpose of Work SAnd And work was given man when it ith sa h not necessary for tor his maIntenance There was enough In na nature turl ture about him to provide for tor all his needs Some frankly sa they would Work no more I if they had enough to keep them All honor to those who work whether they need the products of theIr labor or not They are making themselves more truly happy they are making themselves better morally for Idleness loads leads to degeneration of char character aeter acter and they are makIng themselves useful rather than useless to the world Has Mas n a man really the rIght to live In Inthe inthe the world and not do what ho he can to pay the world for the privilege Our ver very ability to work whether wit hand or brain shows Gods in intention intention In this matter for tor he has made madeUs Us as we ire are and he does all things with a purpose Then there Is certainly plenty of ma material material to work on The physical world has hardly begun to be developed yet only the margins of the Intellectual world have yet et been explored and the spiritual possibilities of human lives have not at all been tully fully estimated to tosa sa say nothing of actualizing them Young people should prepare thor thoroughly thoroughly for their lifework both In the general way of spirit and purpose and andin andIn in the special way of practIcal training to do something well wellAnd wellAnd And the lifework whatever It Is should be received from God It If all allmen allmen men went to God for theIr occupations t several lines ot of work would be eliminated Imagine God directing a man manto manto to run an American saloon or to head a t thieving corporation Then who can estimate the value ot of sImple faithfulness Tho bulk of the worlds work Is done by the plodders We can an aU all be true and steady and that thatIs Is what the world needs most |