Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — Only One Brick on Another. [ARTICLE]

Only One Brick on Another.

Edwin was looking at a large building which they were putting up just opposite his father’s house. He watched the workmen from day to day, as they carried up the bricks and mortar, and then placed them in their proper order. s His father said to him: “My son, you seem to he very much taken with the bricklayers—pray, what might you be thinking about? Have you any notion of learning the trade?” “ No, sir,” said Edwin, smiling; “ but I was just thinking what a little thing a brick is, and yet that great house is built by only laying one brick on another.” “Very true, my sqn. Never forget it. Just so it is in all great works. All your learning is only one little lesson added to another. If a man could walk all around the globe, it would be only putting one foot before the. other. Your whole life will be made up of one little moment after another. Drop added to drop makes the ocean. “ Learn from this not to he discouraged by great labor; the greatest labor becomes easy if divided in parts'. You could not jump over a mountain, but step after step takes you to the other side. Do not fear, therefore, to undertake great things. Always remember that the whole of yonder lofty edifice is only one brick on another