Ah, if we could all thus rest, without anxiety, on the right performance of our allotted work! If we would be content to wait patiently for that success which comes as the orderly result of well-doing in our business, trades, or professions, what a different adjustment would there be in our social condition and relations! There would not be all around us so many eager, care-worn faces--so many heads bowed with anxious thought--so many shoulders bent with burdens, destined, sooner or later, to prove too great for the strength which now sustains them.

But how few, like Henry Wallingford, enter with anything like pleasure into their work! It is, in most cases, held as drudgery, and regarded only as the means to cherished ends in life wholly removed from the calling itself.

Impatience comes as a natural result.

The hand reaches forth to pluck the growing fruit ere it is half ripened.

No wonder that its taste is bitter to so many thousands.