A Scot at Work

Here’s a quote to chew on regarding the ethics of labor.

… we can [...] be quite sure that a great many of our economic ills arise from our failure to recognize the sanctity of six days of labour.  Labour is not only a duty; it is a blessing.  And, in like manner, six days of labour are both a duty and a blessing.  If this principle were firmly established in our thinking, then the complications and hypocrisies often associated with the demand for a five-day week would not have so readily afflicted our economy, and moral degeneration would not have proceeded at the pace we have witnessed.

John Murray.  Principles of Conduct (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1957), 83.

 
 

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I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naïve. (Romans 16:17-18)

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