Emilie found more profitable work elsewhere, and I found some
that was less so, but far more satisfactory, as it would give me
the openings of leisure which I craved.
The paymaster asked, when I left, "Going where on can earn more
money?"
"No," I answered, "I am going where I can have more time."
"Ah, yes!" he said sententiously, "time is money." But that was
not my thought about it. "Time is education," I said to myself;
for that was what I meant it should be to me.
Perhaps I never gave the wage-earning element in work its due
weight. It always seemed to me that the, Apostle's idea about
worldly possessions was the only sensible one,--
"Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content."
If I could earn enough to furnish that, and have time to study
besides,--of course we always gave away a little, however little
we had,--it seemed to me a sufficiency. At this time I was
receiving two dollars a week, besides my board. Those who were
earning much more, and were carefully "laying it up," did not
appear to be any happier than I was.
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