p. 11 | USE YOUR STRENGTH

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

USE YOUR STRENGTH.

A LADY was watching a potter at his work, whose one foot was kept with "never-slackening speed turning his swift wheel round," while the other rested patiently on the ground. When the lady said to him in a sympathizing tone, "How tired your foot must be!" the man raised his eyes and said: "No, ma'am; it isn't the foot that works that's tired, it's the foot that stands. That's it."

If you want to keep your strength, use it; if you want to get tired, do nothing. As a matter of fact, we all know that the last man to go to for a helping hand for any new undertaking is the man who has plenty of time on his hands. It is the man and woman who are doing most who are always willing to do a little more.

The people who are tired of life are not those who work, but those who are too proud or too lazy to do so. Many of the rich are morbidly restless, while those who have to earn their daily bread are comparatively contented and happy. The Bible says that "the sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much" (Eccl. 5:12); and the busy worker has health and blessing which the listless idler never knows.—Selected.