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It's All In the Day's Work

By: Henry Churchill King
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 It is not easy to be certain of the precise origin and meaning of the saying in which my theme is stated. The dictionaries take it as essentially synonymous with "It comes in the course of business," Kipling apparently uses it, in his well-known book, as the title of a collection of stories, to show the very varied things that may come in the course of the day to different kinds of men. I am using the saying, myself, in what I suppose is practically its dictionary meaning, as giving a point of view from which one may well think of the work of his life — a point of view that aims not to make too much of any single incident in the day's work; that takes what comes, to face it thoughtfully and energetically, and turns with undiminished energy to the next thing. It is the point of view of the modest man who deprecates that any one should make overmuch of the difficulties or suffering that he has had to face, or of heroism that he has shown, or of achievements he has accomplished. He has learned how many are "the things no fellow can do," and, therefore, from hour to hour and from day to day, would do as a matter of course, just what befits a man, and under either praise or commiseration is inclined quite honestly to say, "Oh, it's all in the day's work." This point of view may seem to have a touch of modern grayness in it, as over against the high colors of antiquity or of the chivalry of the middle ages. To men of certain temperaments it may even seem to be the mood of the disillusioned, that know well that they must not anticipate striking achievements for themselves or for others. But one may not forget, at the same time, that no age has had so keen a vision as ours of the large possibilities in common men and common ways. It is characteristic of our time, that one great popular magazine should be conducting a standing department under the caption, "Interesting People," and that the subjects of the sketches should be drawn from every walk of life. The real question, then, which I wish to raise is this: How are we to think of our lives as we look forward to them? What mood are we to carry into them? In what spirit are we to take life and to face its vicissitudes? For a man's point of view and his mood toward life have, after all, everything to do with what his life is to mean to himself and to other men. And my thought is, that this every-day saying, "It's all in the day's work," may well indicate both mood and point of view. Christian Living Christianity Spiritual Growth
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