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The Idle Man’s Fate

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 26.

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The Idle Man’s Fate

"THE loafer—that is, the idler 'waiting for something to turn up'—is sure to be a grumbler, sure to have 'hard luck,' sure the world owes him a living, sure to complain of the thrifty, sure to die a beggar, and be buried in a pauper's coffin. St. Paul worked with his own hands, and has declared the Christian rule: 'If any work not, neither shall he eat.'"