Inspiration and Perspiration.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 August 1914, Page 7

Inspiration and Perspiration.

The difference between joyful living and drudgery does not consist so much in the task to be done as it docs in the condition of mind under which the labour is performed. Some people go'through life as sla\es because they have no big conception of the dignity and the meaning of their work. Others as hard, but they do it with joy and gladness because in the doing of the task they find the expression of their inmost purposes. To obtain the right explosion in a gasoline engine there must be the correct admixture of gasoline and air. So, to obtain the best kind of citizenship, there must be a right balance between inspiration and perspiration—because ideals to be reached and effort to reach them. Farmers are not excepted from this rule. There are as many different kinds of farmers as there are kinds of farms. Some farmers are infinitely bigger than their estates ; soino are miserably smaller. Some men farm for themselves and their families ; still some others farm for themselves, their families, their neighbourhoods, their nations, the peoples beyond the seas, and the generations yet unborn. Some farmers see in their wtork only a chance to earn enough to eat, drink, and wear ; others labour in conscious, meaningful co-operation with old Mother Earth and her glorious Creator. —"Nor'-West Farmer."