Play, Work, Rest

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 22, 1910

WE need, all of us, play-time and rest-time quite as really as work-time. Our American habit is to exalt work as if it were the only god, to frown upon play as if it were merely for the juveniles, and to ignore the need of rest. So it happens that sometimes our loving Father, seeing that we require rest and refuse to take it, sends us an opportunity which we label “illness” or “infirmity.” Let us accept the privilege of rest as cheerfully as the obligation to labor, and the recess, when we go out to play. There are times when rest is more than mere physical recuperation; it is intellectual and spiritual strength and invigoration.—Selected.