TRULY the highest joy is that which comes from the knowledge of well-performed duty. An artist labors for weeks and months on a painting that shall be the expression of his highest ideals of beauty and excellence. Day by day he toils, and when the masterpiece comes from his hand he views it with joy, with satisfaction. The same is true of the musician, inspired and thrilled with divine melody; the poet and writer, charmed with the beauties or moved by the events and scenes about them; the teacher and physician, burdened for those in their care; the toiler tho wearied with the irksome task.
It must be true if the man really lives. However humble the task, whatever the burden or care, the true man will see in it something to bring joy. It is placed in the heart by the Creator Himself, who gave man at creation his regular work to do; and in the fall this work was not taken from him, but rather increased. No command comes from Him without the strength for performance, and no task well performed goes unrewarded.