Proud of His Work

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 6, 1879

Proud of His Work.

THERE is a natural satisfaction experienced in the contemplation of the results of diligent and well-directed toil. The workman's grandest monument is the work which he has completed. He looks at it, points to it, and rejoices in it. • Even "the Lord shall rejoice in his works;" and in similar rejoicing all true workers have some right to participate.

But as our good works may be an occasion of rejoicing, so the evil which men do, not only lives after them, in dark and terrible permanence, but it often confronts them, haunts them with its shadow, and shows to them the dire and terrible results of wrong doing even in this life.

During a recent discussion of the temperance question in the Canadian parliament, Mr. Ford, of Queens County, referred to a member of one of the families in the province, who had not long before been laid in a pauper's grave in consequence of being addicted to the use of intoxicating drink, and remarked that such a circumstance was "a temperance lecture in a nutshell."

Mr. Pugh, member from Halifax, immediately arose, and in opposition to Mr. Ford stated that he was a liquor-seller, and that the business was just as honorable and legitimate as a carriage-builder's.

This remark called up Mr. Ford again, and he said: "I build carriages; and when I turn out a fine wagon, and put it to rolling along the streets, I say, That is my work. I would ask the honorable member from Halifax if he is proud of his work, as he sees it rolling along the street."

There was no answer to this question; it was a question that answered itself.