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Show WORK. The man who works is the salvation of the nation. na-tion. Work is the foundation upon which all genuine gen-uine success is built, whether the work is ihe direction di-rection of a great engineering scheme or mercantile mercan-tile establishment, or whether it is the patient following fol-lowing of a plow or the digging of a ditch. In all the activities of our twentieth century civilization, civiliza-tion, nothing can take the place of work. It is the beginning and the end of success. For every man there is work to do. according to his mental. ! manual and moral abilities. The moral ability to work is by far the most important of these; the lack of it the hardest to forgive. The man who goes more or'less cheerfully to his daily task and sticks to it through many discouragements is deserving of the highest respect from his fellow man. More, he is deserving of honor for the moral stamina which holds him to his duty. All of our civilization, civiliza-tion, our wealth, our great cities, our railroads and steamship lines are but the result of work. But the man, lacking the moral stamina which makes for success, j who throws up his hands in despair;', quits his wdrk to become a wanderer; a derelict in our civilization, while appealing strongly strong-ly to the sympathies of all. deserves nothing but censure and a hard hand which will compel him to work. Xor is a rich man, capable of supporting j himself and family without toil, any less liable to this just censure if he finds no work to do. We can sec it in no other light than that work is neeessa ry to the salvation of the individual; that the salvation salva-tion of the individual is necessary to the salvation of the nation, and that the salvation of the nation is necessary to the coming of the millenium. When God placed Upon Adam the malediction. "In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread," it was intended in-tended not for him alone, but for the whole human race for all time. |