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attention. I said, “You have but a little time, and might better work
while you can.”
The attention of many was attracted by a young man and a young
woman who were running a race to the wagon. On reaching it, they
were so tired that they had to sit down and rest. Others also had thrown
themselves down on the grass to rest.
Thus the day wore on, and very little was accomplished. At last I
said: “Brethren, you call this an unsuccessful expedition. If this is the
way you work, I do not wonder at your lack of success. Your success
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or failure depends upon the way you take hold of the work. There are
berries here; for I have found them. Some of you have been searching
the low bushes in vain; others have found a few berries; but the high
bushes have been passed by, simply because you did not expect to find
fruit on them. You see that the fruit which I have gathered is large and
ripe. In a little while other berries will ripen, and we can go over the
bushes again. This is the way in which I was taught to gather fruit. If
you had searched near the wagon, you might have found fruit as well
as I.
“The lesson that you have this day given to those who are just
learning how to do this kind of work, will be copied by them. The
Lord has placed these fruit-bearing bushes right in the midst of these
thickly settled places, and He expects you to find them. But you have
been altogether too much engaged in eating, and amusing yourselves.
You did not come to the field with an earnest determination to find
fruit.
“You must hereafter work with more zeal and earnestness, and
with an altogether different object in view, or your labors will never be
successful. By working in the right way, you will teach the younger
workers that such matters as eating and recreation are of minor im-
portance. It has been hard work to bring the wagon of supplies to the
ground, but you have thought more of the supplies than of the fruit
you ought to carry home as the result of your labors. You should be
diligent, first to pick the berries nearest you, and then to search for
those farther away; after that you can return and work near by again,
and thus you will be successful.”
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