TOO BUSY TO LOVE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 28, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 26.

TOO BUSY TO LOVE.

"My mother'd love me a lot, too, if she wasn't too busy," loyally declared a small maiden, who had hungrily watched the home leave-taking of a little companion as they set off for school. "She has so much housework to do." The "much housework" and other work seem to take precedence of love in many households where the members would be shocked if they fully realized the fact. Love their own?—Of course they do, and all the toil is for the sake of these beloved ones, they say, and really believe. And yet the work has become a fetish—not something for the family comfort, but something before which all else must give way, to which everything else must be sacrificed.—Anon.