LEARN ALL YOU CAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 17, 1876

LEARN ALL YOU CAN.

An unfortunate man is he who can only do one thing, especially if he has not learned a trade. A gentleman who could write five or six languages, but who could do nothing else, found it impossible to obtain employment during a long, cold winter. Another man preached for twenty-five years, until his throat failed him, and he used to go round looking very, very blue and sad, until people pitied him and got up donation parties for him, because he was good for nothing except to preach. A lady taught school for twenty years, until she was a poor, nervous, broken-down woman, and she didn't know how to make a dress for herself. Now, boys and girls, every real man should know how to do one thing right and well. Every wise farmer has a principal crop; but he has always a little something else to live on. Don't carry all your eggs in one basket. Don't put all your money into one pocket. If you want to get along right well, learn one sort of work to get along by, and other sorts of work to get a living with when your one sort gives out.—Sel.