Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — Not Ashamed to Work. [ARTICLE]

Not Ashamed to Work.

An eloquent divine on Sunday drew one of the most important lessons from the life of General Garfield for the consideration of young men from the feentlment, "He was not ashamed to* work.” It underlies all the grand structure of bis life. He did not sit idly on the street oorners and cry out for more wages and fewer hours, and refuse to l&bo* unless his demands were met. Whether it was tbq pittance of SB.OO per' month on the canal, a slender income as a teacher in a log school house, or a generous allowance as a General of the army or a Legislator, he was at all times earnest and diligeou. The greatest failure in life is the nPglecf of small things. Young men are too apt to despise them, or pass them as trivial and beneath their dapadty. * Mdntiave had ‘‘greatness thrust upon them,” but no man or men ever Carved their own way to a place by Ihe side of the intellectual Seers of earth who neglected little uties. tl. [ t , j \ ,