A Solemn Appeal - James White

sin. Property thus obtained is at an immense
sacrifice.
Hard labor and anxious care often make the
father nervous, impatient, and exacting. He does
not notice the tired look of his wife, who has
labored, with her feebler strength, just as hard as he
has labored, with his stronger energies. He suffers
himself to be hurried with business, and, through
his anxiety to be rich, loses in a great measure the
sense of his obligation to his family, and does not
measure aright his wife's power of endurance. He
often enlarges his farm, requiring an increase of
hired help, which necessarily increases the
housework. The wife realizes every day that she is
doing too much work for her strength, yet she toils
on, thinking the work must be done. She is
continually reaching down into the future, drawing
upon her future resources of strength, and is living
upon borrowed capital, and at the period when she
needs that strength, it is not at her command; and if
she does not lose her life, her constitution is
broken, past recovery.
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