Show MECHANICS st paul was a mec mee mechanic hanic banic a maker of tents from goats goals hair and in the lechtur eis opinion he was a model mechanic he was wi riot only a thorough workman at his trade but was a scholar a perfect mastery roaster not only of his native hebrew but of three foreign tongues a knowledge of which he be obtained by close application to study during his leisure hours while serving hla hia apprenticeship it was a custom among the jews to teach their sons some trade a custom not confined to the tha poorer classes but also practiced by the wealthy and it was a common eib aan among them that ifa if a father did not cot teach his son a mechanical occupation he taught him to steal this custom was a wie wise one and if the fathers of tbt present day would imitate their example their wrin wrinkle klel klei cheeks would not so often blush for the helplessness and not frequently infrequently tin criminal conduct of their offspring even if a father intended his son for foi one of the professions it would be an incalculable ben benefit ehi efi to the son to instruct him in some branch 0 of fenech mechanism his education would not only be more complete and health healthy ta bt but he might at some future fmc inie in casp case of failure in in his profession find his tade very convenient as a means of earning his bread and he must Uy be more competent in mechanical from hia his professional education an deduc educated atea mechanic anic was a model ma machine chiney CI while in 1 an uneducated mechille mechanic le was merely a ma eune dune under the thi superintendence of another adother mans mahs nArain canarain ma brain let lot the rich and the proud no longer jook look upon mechanism as degrading to him who adopts a branch of it as his calling it is a noble hoble calling callins as noble as 1 h 6 indolence and inactivity of wealth i is s ignoble rev dr adams |