36 The Angler's Secret 



times. But now, when half the world 

 labors six days without a single day in 

 the whole week being spent in the open it 

 is different, and with the great changes in 

 the world of work there should come 

 changes in the ways to rest. 



God never put the iron shoe upon the 

 horse, because He created soft meadows 

 for its feet, but when man transferred 

 this beast of the plains to the cobbled 

 highways he changed its hoof he nailed 

 on a substance to cope with the cobble. 

 So, when man was created to labor in 

 the open, the Lord provided a certain 

 day and form of rest for him, and that 

 day and form at that period were prac- 

 tical ; but when man transferred his field 

 of labor from the open to the indoor 

 world he should have changed his forms 

 and times of rest as well. 



Let the natural man the laborer in 

 the open go indoors on his day of 

 rest, and let the unnatural man the in- 

 door worker come out, and if he cannot 



