From the Back Cover:

Based on Alexander Clark’s book published in 1871, Workday Christianity provides much needed encouragement, inspiration, and instruction on the important topic of our work from a biblical perspective. Scriptures related to the activities and language of carpenters, weavers, masons, potters, printers, farmers, and others are used to illustrate the nobility of man’s labor, and to reveal the truth of God’s Word in a new and refreshing way. The original text has been significantly revised for the modern reader and much new material has been added.

Readers will be particularly pleased with the book’s biblical perspective on the skills and history of the vocations described. Some will find the material especially helpful for character building and teaching life skills to their children. Parents and teachers may want to consider using the material as part of a history program or unit study. Others will simply enjoy the inspirational nature of this book on man as co-worker with his Creator, one that is filled with much godly instruction for readers both young and old.

Excerpts:

From the Preface:

"Ultimately, our calling to work is not fulfilled so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. We work so as to glorify God; and we do so joyfully. But, in order for us to be faithful workers, we must first be faithful worshippers."

Chapter 2, p. 34:

"Whatever the mason builds, if it is not resting upon a true and solid foundation, it will not remain standing for long. The wise builder is very much aware of that which he builds upon. Its symmetry, its density, its quality of joint, its utility, its everything depends upon the cornerstone. And this is the way it is in the church."

Chapter 7, p. 90:

"God has built the world as a kind of workshop, not merely as a dwelling-place. It contains materials and tools that are intended to be taken hold of by men's minds and hands, and then used. We are beckoned to study and to steward the rocks, the plants, everything. We are designed to work."