Labor Not a Curse

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 9, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 31.

Labor Not a Curse.

If Ella Wheeler Wilcox would read a few verses in Genesis, she would not say in poor rhyme and poetry,—

"The time has come, aye, even now it is, To rank that parable in Genesis Of God's great curse of labor placed on man, With other fairy tales."

She is not alone; others are equally ignorant. The substance of the text is this: The ground was cursed for man's sake; it would bring forth thorns and thistles, making it necessary for man to labor, as one of the means of triumphing over the curse. See Gen. 3:17-19. Labor is ever a blessing. "Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth." Idleness is the devil's handmaid.