Excerpt from The National Sunday School Teacher: Undenominational Evangelical
Hen I last took my watch to the watchmaker I had quite a con versation with him. I pointed out a certain dificulty to which I wished him to look. Ah, said he, that was botched to begin with. Botched work never pays. Why don’t it pay said I. Because, he said, somebody al ways has it to do over afterwards. Now I have a kind of knowledge-box into which all these matters are put. Not that I pull out a pencil and note book - like Boswell attendant upon the wisdom of Johnson. Far from it. But these circumstances and incidents are consigned at once to queer corners of memory - to come forth at odd moments. And this expression clung to my recol lection as if it was a burr: Somebody has it to do over afterwards.
How could that man be happy in his mind who made the shoe which I wore as a boy, and which had a pasteboard sole What sort of a soul must be have had not to have been trampled by night mares shod with pasteboard shoes Why, you can sweep and garnish such a fel low’s shop, but the devils always come back to it. Invariably, should he be converted to the truth and truthful liv ing, these things must return to plague the eye serving, man pleasing botcher of duties.
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