BUSINESS LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13450, 29 May 1907, Page 9

BUSINESS LIFE.

The. workmen of the , Antwerp diamond factories are leaving in large . numbers for the United States, and the local papers are not a little alarmed at this exodus, which deprives one of the chief, trades of Antwerp of . its (.most skilled t workmen. The latter have been engaged by great factories .in New York State and Massachusetts, and have .been offered three times their present salaries. A first batch of workmen has already left, with their families, and on favourable reports-receiv-ed from them more . left recently for - the United States: V:v -, --•

_ To-day is the: greatest in our lives. It is the only day, in which we can da anything. Are you living in v the past or in the future; or are. you seizing each to-day? That'-, is-.the important- question you must I , answer: "In more senses than one that : great writer of the Apostolic era was right I when, he said: 'Now is the accepted time!" . Yesterday ,is gone out.of our grasp,, to- . j morrow may not be for us, the present is I '.; ours, and" to-day is the greatest day in | .our:lives, and this moment the solemn in- ' heritance to which we are born their. People who live in the past are apt to be gloomy, pessimistic, dissatisfied, unhappy! People who live in the" future are apt to be dreamy, vacuous, yearning, but !they never attain.,; He is the wise man who uses to-day and its :■ opportunities : to the ; utmost of his . ability. Whatsoever he has to do he does i I with his might and puts his best, into I j whatsoever he may be doing. The wise ' j man knows that if he makes a. mistake today 'he, or someone else, will be compelled ; fto rectify it in the to-morrow'of life." Mis■j takes may endure for a. season, but they do • { not, they cannot, abide for ever! Mistakes j must be, and are, rectified sometime, somei where. ; AH mistakes of history have been, and are being, rectified, sometimes.at ; tremendous cost and/at a fearful price. Into to-day, put your best work, and there will be no regrets! Your work may be simple, humble, apparently insignificant. It is never ignoble, mean or small, if into it you put your best! Even, drudgery is divine when done in the spirit of a. king- You may do your common work so commonly and" be common. If you do it uncommonly well/and, persevere, the uncommon' reward and encomium will be 'yours. Put ■■'•}our best into your work, And the. best will beyours—best- opportunities, best wages. ■.best;' masters, best character. It- always pays to do work well! It never pays to .do work in aav other wav.