Sharpen Your Saw

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1880

A MAN was at work on a huge pile of wood. The saw was dull, and he tugged and fretted and fumed, and at last broke out with a series of expletives big enough and coarse enough to fatally injure an ordinary mouth. A cheery fellow passed by, and taking in the situation at a glance, said, by way of friendly advice: "My friend, why don't you sharpen your saw?" The poor, oppressed victim of circumstances looked savagely at him for an instant and then replied: "Look here, mister, don't you think I've work enough to do sawing this pile without stopping to sharpen saws?"