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Show To Each Man Has Been Allotted Certain Work to Be Required of Him Columbus begged his wny from door to door In n strange lnud, lending lend-ing his llttlo son forlornly by tho hnnd. Thomas A. IMIson wns tho prey of bill collectors who dogged his footsteps like hungry wolves. There lire countless other men known nnd unknown to history who suffered nameless persecutions, even suffering death Itself hecuuso they could not bo dissuaded from doing tho work that they believed It was theirs to do. Work was their religion. It wns the ruling passion of their lives. "And, nfter nil, work Is the grent ndventurp," ns Frank Lane said not long ago In one of his public speeches. Work should bo every man's religion, re-ligion, find himself tins said that It Is the trnest way to pray. It Is only tho devil who loves to find our hnnds Idle. Now, It Is true nlso thnt It Is not given to all men to mnko mnglc fiddles, fid-dles, to grasp benuteoiiR ceramics from the oven or to discover new worlds. Hut, It Is nlso true thnt every man can find work for' his hnnds to do. It may be very humble work, Indeed; In-deed; It may bo work that miynno can do; but no rnntter what It Is. we can mnko It grent. Wo can mnko It holy, even. We can consecrate our work by the soul thnt wo put Into It It seems to us that Ood'H most gracious gra-cious dispensation to men Is thnt ho continuously creates n sufficient number num-ber of them to do the common tasks. If we were all of us bent on making fiddles or ceramics, painting pictures nud weaving songs, thero would be no one left to hew the wood and draw the water. In other words, If we were nil "nrt- Ists." who would cook the meals and wash the dishes? There Is no dignity to isjunl the dignity dig-nity of labor. Hcmrmber thnt. And remember, too. that there Is no Inhor thnt lacks dignity, no matter how simple or how common or how humble hum-ble Its tnsks mny be. |