ABSTRACT
Judaism is unstinting in its praise of industry. The Bible is not only a book about Religion ; it is a picture of busy, strenuous life. Religious study was their ruling passion, but they could admire and find time for the humblest toil. Men’s best energies are spent not upon work, but upon the attempt to escape from it. Never has steady toil fallen into such disrepute. The mania for speculation and gaming, which is eating away the heart of latter-day morality, owes nearly all its origin to a contempt for patient industry. The inherent nobility of work is a truth that needs to be more diligently taken to heart in these days. The number of persons who regard labour as a blessing is diminishing fast. The servant of God, as Judaism conceives him, he says, does not separate himself from the world.
