Show r ic-r r 1 OP 01 WORK I Lagging down the street last a t night r can came e a man who whoso o face Cace showed shoed a n tK weariness of it life which it J was not necessary necessary Rich essary Ar for his tongue to confess educated en endowed o cl with all al the mean meana I for happiness which can be cla classified li and weighed he was one onE of the most mot miserable men mn In Salt Sal Lake And hi his hl hlf f fi j only curse was that he had ha no work Ik There THre are arc not many things he can cnn do doax doby doby ax by wn way of earning money and no place e T of business has hu room for Cor a 3 man who e is if not l by his services ser paying his way s' s He lie learned little which now can command command com com- fr mand a sale salt His Ills hand is I 1 untrained t In an any useful occupation His tongue t f 1 Is untaught In an any profitable fj slon sion Ion His whole has been one OnlO of o fF W leisure It I has been heen decorous leisure elun lj lo to be he sure ure but It has at no time po pos pos- j the tang of profitableness ness the stress tre s of or necesS necessity And If IC he hE could he would woul exchange places with the I hireling In town Men ren upon whom the burden of oC compulsion com com- Is lal laid rarely appreciate to the thc full ful the blo blessing their labor entails Here and there one resents hl hi his suppo supposed sup- sup 1 po posed el hardship Many look on tho those c who seem seeni more fortunate b because le lee less e fr taxed in strength and wl wish h they might might i exchange places If H they knew the they y heart weariness of oC th the man who never f was vas weary wenry th they y would CI fly from the ti t temptation as S from Crom a n pl plague ue For For labor Is a blessing ing If I Adam ha had listened well wel as he turned from the theft a ft Garden of oC glen Eden he would have ha read i In the divine edict a wise benison for or which all al the sons of oC m men n may ris-o ris and give thanks thanks And nd In the sweat Q rr of th thy face shall lh cat cat hl bread d t Is ts of or a curse cure than a al the eO common corn com mon processes of nil all al 1 life e. e The rhe baby I. I toy out outgrows his hiR curls url an and his hiM i mothers mother's first sharp tragedy i is when p the scissors translate sate him from Int In- In t fancy facy to youth He Is never ne el the tho thC same arC i. i again r aln And yet would she he send semi him bun back to a lifetime cradle The he Thedaugh- Thedaugh dau daughter daugh- daugh hI h- h 2 tor ter tel folds Colds one arm about mother and I tig another about father grips them close in iii a loving lo embrace embrace and and then turns turn from hem them forever er Coe to take her place P beside one to whom hom hon her own life Is I- I united And the bitterness of that t Me parting Is not a curse I which either c father or mother would pray play to havo have J unsaid t I p If I the ground round was cU cursed curbed ed for COl the sake jike of or the sin pin that man committed anti and was made to hung bring forth thorns thistles there thele was waR va planted with the ver very root of that thorn tree tho feeds eed eds of oC a blessing which h man must I win in fighting the thorn For man mati stood tood upright He dl lid did not not grovel ovel with the serpent nor bend his neck Jeck with wih the beasts of the fel field He stood too erect In the majesty majest of oC the on only I. I L creature th that t was wa ns great seat enough to bear beart a t cUse curse and make of it il a blessing He lie Hemet met me the tho world an and overcame the curse curse He earned his bread In the sweat of or his face an and gave of o the bread to the woman whom he had slandered in his Cr first t sin He found no peril peri too dire fo for hl his confronting no labor Jabor too great for fOl his arm He lie found no distance I too great for his travel and no hope so o fair that he might not realize it I. I Few Fe lines Jnes ha have hae e been heen given to the language finer than those thos in The uThe Village ViI VII Vil Vi- Vi lage a e Blacksmith nl Ufa brow Is wet with honest sweat 5 He earns carns ho lie can I And looks the whole world worl in the face race For he owes not an any man Curses which carr carry with wih them the I 4 development of character are ale blesin blessings I from rom which the disguise ma may be stripped most easl easily Blessings which bury burr the thorn in 11 the soul soul Instead Instead o othe of oC the soil are ale are curses Indeed And he lie 11 f who Cho posse possessing strength the lie opportunity of oC profitably employing lu It I bel belongs ms m's to In the only class al alive on tho the I son owing side ide of or the gate of oC the Carden Gari Garden Gar Car i den of Eden Een I |