idleness and labour

Idleness is a deadly deterrence to advancement. Life is a process of never ending refinement, resulting ultimately in the achievement of perfection. Toil, the effort we expend to reach a goal is the force which drives us to that perfection. There is always another lesson to be learned, always a new vista or horizon opening before us, and if we apply ourselves as if our lives depended on it, both as individuals and as a society, there is no limit to the heights we might climb.This is symbolized by labor and by the proper application of tools. Knowledge can destroy as readily as it can create, as a tool in a careless hand may cut the operator.You are taught how to apply your self in overcoming obstacles and learn that the only way to defeat evil is to make energetic progress in the good.""We are workers;Labor is honorable, and that we should strive to improve the condition of the tolling millions. We are all workmen in our several vocations, whether in actual labor, preparing plans for the laborers, or studying the calculations of Philosophy, the advancement of civilization and knowledge, or the destruction of ignorance and barbarism." - Bro. McClenachan The Book of the AASR