Labor a Blessing by James White

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 6, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 26.

Labor a Blessing

By James White

BEFORE sin entered happy Eden, the representatives of the race were put into the garden, “to dress it and to keep it,” when their minds could trace, in a thousand varied forms, the perfections and power of the divine creative hand. In the estimation of God and His Son, and of the holy angels, labor was honorable, and for the good of man, even for sinless hands in holy Eden.

After the transgression, God said to Adam, “Cursed is the ground for thy sake.” The earth was cursed in consequence of Adam’s sin. But the fact that he was to eat his bread by the sweat of his face was not the curse. Increased labor was simply a consequence which was for his best good in his fallen condition.—James White.