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The Blessing of Useful Labor

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 16.

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The Blessing of Useful Labor

Man must be occupied in order to live a normal, healthful life. God made him to be a worker. Before sin entered, when the glorious Garden of Eden was placed as a crown of beauty upon the earth, man was placed therein to dress and to keep the garden. He was given occupation as one of the best of his blessings. Labor is not a curse. Idleness is a curse. Parents, take to heart the lesson. Teach your children to work, to do useful labor, to be blessings, not burdens. One of the greatest curses the boy of to-day is meeting, especially in the cities, is that of idleness.