Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1915 — WHEN BEST WORK IS DONE [ARTICLE]

WHEN BEST WORK IS DONE

Literary "and Other Labor Performed Under Preeeur* Generally Is of High Merit Fortunately we often have to do our work in less time than it seems to deserve, for that is likely to mean that the work will be better done than if we had ample time for it A veteran Christian worker and writer once said to a friend; "I never knew anything worth while to be done that was not done under pressure. Men who write under pressure give to their writings a ‘temper* they would not have were they written at leisure.”” Pressure often seems to produce a quality, a concentration of thought, that comes in no other way. Even if we are not sharply limited in our time for a certain piece of work, it is quite within our power to gain the benefit of the sense of pressure by remembering the preciousness of every minute of time, and the stewardship for which we are to be held accountable. An easy-going sense of having “plenty of time” is likely to mean a loose, flabby quality in our work. Let us welcome the enforced safeguards against this with which the circumstances of 4ife often surround us.—Sunday School Times.