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Show Highest Happiness in Labor Well Performed Today the most welcome word that can come to millions is a promise of employment to have a share in the world's work. The song on which many of the older generation were brought up urged one to work in the niorning hours, to work 'mid springing spring-ing flowers, to work even through the sunny noon, and then on till the "last beam fadeth, fadeth to shine no more." But it was a joyous song, and the only unhappy note in It was the one that suggested the oncoming of night, "when man works no more." The most fervent prayer that most men make, especially those who have not much goods laid up against days of ease, come from ancient times : "May I be taken in the midst of my work." So far from work being a curse, Oarlyle speaks of it as "the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind." It Is the bet physician. So in seeking to find employment for those out of work, the problem of misery is attacked at its root. Skill in labor is man's highest vocation, vo-cation, but it is through labor of some sort, whether by hand or brain, whether of one's choice or by compulsion, com-pulsion, whether as a vocation or an an avocation, that he finds his way to his better and best self. Giving a man a job is the best form of helpfulness, if he is still able to work. It has been often said that there Is no good obtainable without labor; but it is better said that there is no good that Is to be put above the ability and the opportunity to labor, Kansas City Times. |