Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

of domestic duties. You did not receive the
education in this direction that you should have had
in your girlhood, and this has made your life more
unhappy than it would otherwise have been. You
do not love physical labor; and when journeying,
you fill the bill of an invalid, and fail to be helpful
and do what you can to lighten the burdens you
make. You fail to realize that frequently the very
ones who wait on you are no more able to perform
the extra task than you are. You lean on others, and
lay your whole weight upon them. I have no
evidence that God has called you to do a special
work in traveling.
You have an education to obtain that you do
not yet possess. Who can so well instruct the child
as the mother? Who can so well learn the defects in
her own organization and in her child's as the
mother while in the performance of the duties
which Heaven has allotted her? The fact that you
do not love this work is no evidence that it is not
the work which the Lord has assigned you. You
have not sufficient physical or mental strength to
make it an object for you to travel. You wish to be
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