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Too Industrious

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 10, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 38.

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Too Industrious.

If mothers would but remember that freshness and vigor and cheerfulness and companionship were the most precious things they could give to their children, they would cease being so industrious, and instead would cultivate the graces of leisure.
They would put less work on their children’s clothes and more on their hearts and minds.
They would esteem a happy walk, accompanied by their children, of far more advantage to them than an elaborately prepared dinner.
They would realize that to be able to take an intelligent and interested part in general conversation would do more to bind their husbands’ hearts to them and to command their respect than an exquisite dinner, or a wardrobe of ruffled and embroidered garments for the little ones.
But no one can help a woman to this right position in her family except herself. With women alone lies the remedy for the bad consequences that result to themselves and their families from their being too industrious.