BLESSING OF HARD WORK

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 12.

BLESSING OF HARD WORK.

One of the richest blessings God gives to men whom He loves and desires to favor is the duty to work hard without having too many vacations or holidays. Those who do not have to work constantly are to be pitied. They are not God's favored ones. President Eliot of Harvard said on one occasion, “A scab is a hero,” referring to men who work while others refuse to work. At this one high in the councils of unionism was indignant, and in denouncing such views uttered this curse on the man expressing such a sentiment: “I wish that you may long have hard work, long hours, and a hungering stomach while you live.” But President Eliot is ready for all this. He now says plainly: “I believe that long hours and hard work are best for every man. . . . No man can work too hard or too long hours if his health will permit.” And he might have added, Such work gives a man a hungering stomach as a token of his health. Men who will not work while they can, and who take frequent holidays, usually are ignorant of health or happiness, and do little to promote the welfare of themselves or others.—S. S. Times.