Many a moral failure has resulted from not keeping up with God’s moral
progress, just as this mechanic failed through not keeping up with the
new inventions:
The very great changes that have been wrought in machine-shop
equipment during the past few years have hit many of the older
mechanics pretty hard. A good deal of significance is contained
in the remark of one such man: “I have had to learn over my
trade three times and I’m too old to learn it again.” He had
been given a difficult job to do on a modern engine-lathe
containing the latest useful mechanisms for saving labor and
procuring accurate work, and because he did not understand the
tool he failed in his efforts until a younger machinist came to
his assistance. (Text.)
(2077)