A Calendar for Workers

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 25, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 21.

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A Calendar for Workers

Sunday

No man is born into the world, whose work is not born with him.—Lowell.

Monday

There is a noble dignity in all honest labor. By it no man is degraded, but dignified, enriched, purified.

Tuesday

You must be sure of two things—you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin; you must not be ashamed of your work, and wanting to be doing something else.—George Eliot.

Wednesday

When you have found your place, you will feel yourself growing in your work, and your life broadening and deepening. Your work will be a perpetual tonic to you. There will be no drudgery in it. You will go to your task with delight, and leave it with regret. Life will be a glory, not a grind.

Thursday

The spiritually unemployed are busy with the frittering business of the moment only, when they might be engaged in work of eternal value. Such lives are inevitably without the noble rewards of the higher labor. The love, joy, peace, and the like which are the fruits of the Spirit are not for them. They know not—

“The joy of the working / For the God of things as they are.” / —Sunday School Times.

Friday

It is said of George Müller, that marvelous man of faith and prayer, who has cared for so many orphans, and “prayed down” millions of money, that every phase of his work was always settled by three questions: (1) Does God want this done? (2) Does he want it done now? (3) Does he want it done by us? He then waited upon God, day and night; and if these questions were answered affirmatively, the result was sure.

Saturday

We are going to be through this life before very long. The longest life is short when it is over; any time is short when it is done. The gates of time will swing to behind you before long. They will swing to behind some of us soon, but behind all of us before long. And then the important thing will not be what appointments we had, or what rank, or anything of that sort,—not what men thought of us, but what God thought of us, and whether we were built into his kingdom. And if, at the end of it all, we emerge from life's work and discipline, crowned souls, at home anywhere in God's universe, life will be a success.—Prof. B. P. Bowne.