THE NEED AND VALUE OF WORK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2352, 8 November 1921, Page 4

THE NEED AND VALUE OF WORK.

It is entitled a “Business Man’s Prayer,” but in these days when farmers are business, men, fully ns much as those who live and work (sometimes) in cities, it is appropriate for farmers, too: “Teach me that sixty minutes make an hour, sixteen ounces one pound, and 100 cents one dollar. Help me to live so that I can lie down at night with a clear conscience, without a gun under mv pillow, and unhaunted by the' faces of those to whom I have brought pain. “Grant that I may earn my meal ticket on the square, and that in earning it I may not stick the gal) where it does not- belong. “Deafen me to the jingle of tainted money and the rustle of unholy skirls. Blind me to the faults of the other fellow, hut reveal to me my own. “Guide me so that each night when I look across the dinner table at my wife, who has been a blessing to me, I will have nothing to conceal. Keep me young enough to laugh with the children. “And when comes the smell ol (lowers, and Iho tread of soft steps, and the crunching of wheels out in front, make the ceremony short and the epitaph simple—‘Here lies a man.’ ” There is no royal road lo wealth, cither along country lanes or city pavements, unless we toil and sweat. In an orgy of extravagance a great many people have forgotten „/ignored this fact. They are beginning to pay the piper now. Tf ever there was a time when the world needed to work, and to love its work, that time is now.