the drawing to Step 5.]
"And now, having found out what the man eats, let us see if we can
find out who he is. [Remove the sheet from the drawing board, hold it
up and turn it over, exposing Fig. 38 to the audience. With the
attention thus centered upon your work, the boys and girls will listen
with eagerness to whatever else you may have for them.]
"And so, I tell you of another thing that we can do.
"Listen! Tell me what a boy thinks about, and I will tell you what
kind of a man he will grow up to be.
"The man who swears, thought of bad things and used bad words when he
was a boy. The man who is a thief thought about dishonest things when
he was a boy. The man who is happy and who finds it his delight to do
good, formed the habit of thinking and doing good things when he was a
boy. The man who loves his work learned to like to work when he was a
boy.
"And it is work that I want to speak about today.
"There is no place in the world for a lazy boy or girl. Nobody wants
them. Boys who hate to work are the kind that loaf around poolrooms
and pollute the air with vile cigarette smoke and language which
bespeaks an empty mind and a corrupt heart.
"As Jesus is our great example in every way, He stands out strongly as
our example of how a workman should delight in his employment. We
should first find the thing which God intends that we shall do, for we
are all fitted to do some things better than others, and we should
then put forth our best efforts to learn to do that one thing as well
as we can. We must center our thoughts upon the things we want to
do. Life will then become a delight, because the world is always
crying for workers who know how to do their work. The other kind is
always to be found but never wanted. The demand is for the ones who
know how. It is a significant fact that the first recorded words of
Jesus Christ are, 'Wist ye not that I must be about my father's
business?' This makes of Jesus a _Business boy_, and it was God's
work he began so soon.
"Gladstone, an inspiring example of the true workman, says, 'The
thrift of time will repay in after life with usury of profit beyond
your most sanguine dreams, and the waste of it will make you dwindle
alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest
reckoning.'
"The happiest people in the world are those who are busy at something
worth while, and the most miserable are those who are in idleness for
lack of ambition or else are enga
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