A Good Wife by Examiner

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 20, 1882

A Good Wife.

By Examiner

A GOOD wife is to a man wisdom, strength, and courage; a bad one is confusion, weakness, and despair. No condition is hopeless to a man where the wife possesses firmness, decision, and economy. There is no outward propriety which can counteract indolence, extravagance, and folly at home. No spirit can long endure bad influence. Man is strong, but his heart is not adamant. He needs a tranquil mind, and especially if he is an intelligent man, with a whole head, he needs a moral force in the conflict of life. To recover his composure, home must be a place of comfort and peace. There his soul renews its strength, and goes forth with renewed vigor to encounter the labors and troubles of life. But if at home he finds no rest, and there is met with bad temper, jealousy, and gloom, assailed with complaints and censures, hope vanishes, and he sinks into despair.

—Examiner.