Article April 30, 1938 Issue

Joyous Work

HELEN E. LUGSDIN

Joyous work is a privilege, in which all may share. We should not associate work with Webster's definition of "toil," as that which "denotes a severity of labor which is painful and exhausting."

Christ Jesus, in his incomparable Sermon on the Mount, tells us to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin," adding that "even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Yet what a wonderful work these flowers performed! They were giving forth purity, beauty, fragrance. Because of their simple expression of these qualities not even King Solomon, with all his pomp and splendor, was arrayed like one of them.

The Bible states, in the first chapter of Genesis, that "God created man in his own image." Man's work, then, is to reflect his creator. It was Adam, the counterfeit of man, who was condemned to "till the ground."

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