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and learn and enjoy nothing from their work. 

 Work under such conditions is, of course, a seem- 

 ing curse. But he who goes to his daily task with 

 cheerful, hopeful, investigating spirit, who seeks 

 for knowledge and can see the mystery of God in 

 the common clay, the growing plants, and insect 

 life, who works not only for the money that will 

 provide him with the necessities of life, but for 

 the pleasure that it brings, has caught the true 

 vision of life and right living, and thrice happy 

 is he, for he has found the secret of right and 

 profitable living. 



The man with a vision plants a fruit tree, and 

 there is pictured upon the canvas of his mind the 

 full grown, developed tree, laden with the fruit 

 of its kind, painted and flavored with the richest 

 colors and most delicious extracts, but he knows 

 that before that picture can become a reality, his 

 hand must give that tree a fertile soil, the best 

 cultivation, a scientific trimming and spraying for 

 years. But Nature thus assisted, does her part, 

 and the tree, as the years go by, develops and in 

 time produces its perfect fruit and rewards the 

 labor of the tender. But the tender took the 

 greatest delight in his work, knowing that the time 

 would come when his labor would bear its reward- 

 His work was a work worth while, and the com- 

 munity in which he lived was made better by his 

 work, for, he who does nothing more than plant 

 a tree by the wayside and tends it to maturity, has 

 done more for mankind than he who sits and 

 dreams and talks great things of accomplishment, 

 but does not a thing to bring them about; or even 



