Happiness In Work

It is written, " in the sweat of thy brow," but it was never written, " in the breakage of thine heart," thou shalt eat bread ; and I find that as on the one hand, infinite rnisery is caused by idle people, who both fail in doing what twas appoiated for them to do, and set in niotion various springs of mischief in matters in which they should have no concern, so, on the other hand, no small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themsolves and force upon others, of work itself. Were it not so, 1 believe the fact of their being unhappy is in itself a violation of divine law, and a sign of some kind of folly or sin in their way of life. Now, inf order that people may be happy in thoir work, these three things are needed : They must be fit for it : they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of suecess in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of other people for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it. So that, in order that a man may be happy, it is nece88ary. that he should not only be capable of his work, but a erood iudare oí his work.