WORK AND HAPPINESS by G.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

WORK AND HAPPINESS.

By G.

THE man who really enjoys his work, who gets pleasure and happiness out of it, never needs to engage in mere play for the benefit of his health. He may be better for a change of work by way of diversion, but if his labor be useful labor, and not indulged in intemperately, the happiness of it will keep him in health.

A really bright young woman, and one who enjoys good health, recently remarked, "I like to do whatever I have to do." And John B. Gough once said that of two always-happy men he had known, one was a paper-ruler, who said to him: "When I have a fine lot of paper to rule, and my machine works well, I am perfectly happy."

Speaking of the man who is happy at his work, the Sunday-School Times says: "That man has got beyond his boyhood into his manhood. He does not need the useless, half-animal activities of the playground to make him healthy and his life endurable. He finds his satisfaction in useful work, which ministers to the needs of the world. And all wise men have learned to look to their work for their health and happiness, as boys look to their play."

The service of the Lord ought to be healthful. It is with astonishment that the Lord asks: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of My people recovered?" Jer. 8:22. To which it is pertinent to add this counsel of the inspired Word: "My son, attend to My words; incline thine ear unto My sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh." Prov. 4:20-22. G.