Article July 16, 1938 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Making Our Career

with contributions from Arthur A. Rand, E. S. Woods

[Arthur A. Rand, in the Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada]

One day when Michelangelo, the sculptor, was about to begin work on a block of marble which was set up before him, he thought of the possibilties within that piece of stone and addressed a poem to it, part of which went something like this: "Within you there are both beauty and ugliness. Which comes out depends upon me." Then, taking his chisel, he proceeded to fashion that block into the figure of a saint.

Every day upon which you enter is a block of rough marble upon which you are about to work. Locked up in that day there are both beauty and ugliness. ... There will be experiences which can make you bitter or sweet. There will be chances both to praise and to blame. There will be opportunies for making someone happy or miserable. There will be situation to meet and choices to make, which will contain possibilities for developing your character upward or downward. There will be chances to speak words that will be pleasant or words that will hurt.

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