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 in your way may be changed into roses that never fade, and which will be woven into a crown to be placed on your brow for all eternity.

3. There are many workmen who are honest, conscientious, and careful in the performance of their duties, and who are for this reason trusted and loved by their employers. On the other hand, we must also admit that there are many complaints made to-day about workmen, and that these complaints are not without some foundation.

Workmen often take no interest in the welfare of their employers; they seem to believe that there must necessarily exist opposition between them instead of a friendly co-operation. Hence they perform their work merely to satisfy their employer sufficiently to retain their situation, and have no intelligent interest in the advancement of his business. That bond which in former times united employers and workmen so that they became almost like members of the same family, the employer looking after the best interests of his workmen, and the workmen looking upon the business of their employer as if it were their own, has for the most part ceased to exist.

Most of the complaints that we hear about workmen would be silenced if they would turn with more earnestness to their holy faith. It is faith that teaches us the nobility of work; by faith we learn that work is commanded us by God. God Himself instituted