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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 20, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 29.

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WORK OF WOMAN.

By M. Elisabeth Burns-Howell

BY M. ELISABETH BURNS-HOWELL.
“After this manner in the old time the holy women adorned themselves.”
WORK of woman? Life-work: To bear and to rear, To succor and strengthen, to comfort and cheer; To labor and live, for the child of her heart, And shrink not to suffer if pain be her part.
Work of woman? Love-work: Created to love, And loving, to guide to the haven above, With steps strong and steady, and eye set on high, Her heart by the hearth-stone, she mounts to the sky.
Work of woman? Wife-work: Devotedly true To share and to sympathize, eager to do, With good heart and glad heart, for him whom she loves, Companion and consort and comrade she proves.
Work of woman? Health-work: To soothe and to heal, To look up, and lift up; and often to kneel, With head bowed and heart bowed, to seek at the throne The grace that is given for healing alone.
Work of woman? School-work: The home is her school, All nature her Primer, her Bible the rule That she solves problems by. She teaches and learns Life lessons of patience and power, by turns.
Work of woman? Brainwork: To think and to know, To search laws of life, that her household may go The windings about of that intricate way Of wisdom and truth, and of duty each day.
Work of woman? Hand-work: To make or to mend, To do little deeds, from dawn to day’s end; To fashion wee garments from foot up to head, To spin or to weave, or to bake daily bread.
Work of woman? Heart-work: To lead to the light, To point to the sun, and sing songs in the night; To rock at the cradle, and pillow tired heads, And hear baby prayers beside baby beds.
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