Pulling Together

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 17, 1910

THERE is a story of a bridegroom who requested his bride to accompany him into their garden a day or two after their wedding. He then threw a line over the roof of the cottage. Giving his wife one end of it, he retreated to the other side, and exclaimed, “Pull the line!” She pulled as hard as she could.

He cried, “Pull it over!”

“I can’t,” she replied.

“Pull with all your might!” shouted the husband.

But in vain were all the efforts of the bride to pull the line over, so long as the husband held the opposite end. But when he came round, and they both pulled at one end, it came over with great ease.

“There,” said he, as the line fell from the roof, “you see how hard and ineffectual was our labor when we pulled in opposition to each other, but how easy and pleasant it is when we both pull together. It will be so, my dear, through life. If we oppose each other, it will be hard work; if we act together, it will be pleasant to live. Let us, therefore, always pull together.”—Morning Star.