Labor a Blessing

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 16, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 50.

Labor a Blessing.—It is a sad thing that the majority of mankind are coming to think more and more that labor is a curse, when it is designed of God to be one of the greatest helps and blessings in rising above the curse. This evil thinking takes away all joy in working, the highest joy one can find, if the work be right. He has never learned to live who finds no joy in legitimate labor. Wages are necessary, and should always be just, but greater joy should be in the doing of the work itself, in the growing mind and skill, and greater effectiveness. It is a low view of labor that sees only the wage at the end of the day, week, or month, however necessary it be to wife or children.