May 27, 1876
 
 

One Lesson Of the Centennial
 

One of the best lessons of the Centennial is the honor it confers upon all kinds of labor. No one can witness the magnificent display that the industry, skill and art of so many nations have contributed to produce without feeling an increased reverence for the hard toil of head and hand from which it has sprung, Labor is generally admitted to be a necessity, of course, but not thing of beauty and joy. However indefatigable the toiler may be, he rarely sees the crowning symmetry and elegance of his work when perfected. The division of labor is such that only a part of every whole falls to his share, and its finished completeness is too far removed for him to rejoice in it. But there is indeed a gathering together of results at once rich and inestimable, wherein the honest work of every true laborer shines forth with a radiance and beauty that should forever save it from any imputation of dullness and insipidity.

When Macauly published the earlier volumes of his History, he reaped suddenly and to his great astonishment, rewards both in wealth and fame that placed him on a pinnacle of which he had never dreamed. Twenty six thousand five hundred copies of one volume were sold in ten weeks. In his diary he says, "They (the publishers) will pay twenty thousands pounds into Williams bank next week. What a sum to be gained by one edition of a book. But that was harvest day. "The work has been near seven years in hand." Here we see the sudden blossoming forth into view of years of hard and lonely labor, doubtless often clouded with discouragement and doubt, and burdened with many an anxious fear. Something of this may now be seen in our great Exhibition. It is the harvest time which yields at length the rich and luxuriant fruits that have been silently and steadily growing and ripening for the past hundred years. Suddenly, and to our astonishment, the labor of humanity springs in full, obvious and well-defined existence, glowing with brilliance and beauty, and claiming an appreciation and honor at our hands that we are all now hastening to bestow. The many years of patient, plodding and unnoticed toil, the busy thoughts that have been planning in secret for this increased happiness of mankind, the tireless researches which have been penetrating the earth, and weighing the atmosphere, and measuring the stars, the courage and firmness which have triumphed over untold difficulties, the sacrifices which no eye has seen, and the victories over weariness and despair that no tongue has recounted, are all embodied in the valuable results around us. The pain and fatigue, the loneliness and discouragement, the anxiety and fear that attended their birth, they joy of their successful completion remains a permanent blessing to the world.

Let us all, then, as we visit the Centennial and feast our eyes on its rich products and varied beauties, learn to accord a deeper reverence and a higher honor to labor than we have ever done before. Let us not be satisfied with admiring and wondering at the results, but let our thoughts flow back in respectful homage to the assiduous industry and painstaking exertions which are there represented. More than all, let us turn again to our every-day life with a more faithful loyalty to labor, a renewed vigor to engage in it, and a more tender consideration and regard for those who are battling with discouragements and difficulties in its service.
 

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