p. 527 | DOES HER OWN WORK

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1880

DOES HER OWN WORK

“Does she? What of it? Is it any disgrace? Whose work should she do? Is she any less a true woman, less worthy of respect than she who sits in silk and satins, and is proud of fingers that never labor? We have listened to this sneer, and it betokens narrow, ignoble minds. Honorable work is one of the chief corner-stones of all civilization and refinement. It is the basis of all true society, true womanhood, and genuine nobility. The rank which a certain class are trying to establish—caste, whose sole foundation is money—is the meanest kind of rank known to civilization. Mind, manners, morals, all that enters into a good character, are of no account with these social snobs; position in their motley ranks is bought with gold, and each additional dollar is another round in the ladder by which elevation is gained.” By and by that ladder breaks down, and then the woman who sneers at the idea of doing her own work is glad to do work for others, rather than steal or starve. The Lord has ordained that people shall work, and so long as he rules the universe lazy folks are likely to have a hard time of it, whether clad in rags or robed in satin.—Exchange