SLIGHTING A DUTY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 33.

SLIGHTING A DUTY.

“You haven’t made things look very neat and orderly here in the back shop,” said a merchant to a young clerk.

“Well, I thought it was good enough for back there, where things can not be seen very plainly, and where customers seldom go.”

“That won’t do,” said the merchant sharply, and then added in a kinder tone: “You must get ideas of that kind out of your head, my boy, if you hope to succeed in life. That kind of ‘good enough’ isn’t much better than ‘bad enough.’”

And the merchant made the boy go and do all the cleaning over again.

The girls who do not sweep in the corners or dust under things, and the boys who dispose of things as quickly as possible, saying that things “will do” if they are not well done, are the boys and girls who will not turn out to be great men and useful women.—Selected.