THE MINISTER'S WIFE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1881

THE MINISTER'S WIFE.

The minister's wife ought to be selected by a committee of the church. She should be warranted never to have headache or neuralgia; she should have nerves of wire and sinews of iron; she should never be tired or sleepy, and should be everybody's cheerful drudge; she should be cheerful, intellectual, pious and domesticated; she should be able to keep her husband's house, darn his stockings, make his shirts, cook his dinner, light his fire, and copy his sermons; she should keep up the style of a lady on the wages of a day-laborer, and be always at leisure for "good works" and ready to receive morning calls; she should be Secretary to the Band of Hope, the Dorcas Society, and the Home Mission: she should conduct

Bible classes and mother's meetings; should make clothing for the poor and gruel for the sick, and finally, she should be pleased with everybody and with everything, and never desire any reward beyond the satisfaction of having done her own duty and other people's too.—London Magazine.