Labor Not a Curse.—It is a pity that Ella Wheeler Wilcox and other self-constituted teachers have not read carefully the first chapters of the Bible before they speak of "that parable in Genesis of God's great curse of labor placed upon man." Nowhere in the Bible is labor spoken of as a curse. The ground was cursed because of man's sin; but God gave labor as a part of the means of triumphing over the curse. The curse was placed upon the ground for man's sake, that it might call for more labor from sinful man. Idleness is a curse unmitigated.