A WIFE'S POWER | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1880

A WIFE'S POWER.

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 its moral force in the conflict of life. To recover his composure,

home must be a place of peace and comfort. There his spirit renews its strength and goes forth with renewed vigor to encounter the labor and troubles of life. But if at home he finds no rest, and there is met with bad temper, jealousy, and gloom, or assailed with complaints and censure, hope vanishes and he sinks into despair.