Living to Work or Working to Live
By S. S. Times
THERE is a great difference between living to work and working to live. We all live and most of us work; but there the general resemblance ends. Some work only that they may live, and stop work just as soon as necessity permits them to do so. This is the principle on which the professional tramp goes, and on which a good many people go who are not professional tramps. But they who do the best work in the world do not work to live, but live to work; they fully indorse the maxim of Goethe, that "a useless life is premature death," and they value their lives only as an opportunity for doing service in some righteous or beneficial cause. Would you like to know to which of the two classes you belong? Think whether your joy in each new acquirement in your life is joy over a new opportunity for selfish ease, or gladness for a new capability of doing further and more effective service.—S. S. Times.