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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 45.

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“Managing a Husband”

By Mary Beam

ONCE in a while one finds in a magazine an article under the above or a similar heading.
As there are “many men of many minds,” it stands to reason that different husbands require different management. Without doubt many husbands are best managed by not being managed at all.
The New Testament husband needs no managing. He loves his wife “even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.” He loves her as his own body. He “nourisheth and cherisheth” her “even as the Lord the church.” He loves her “in particular,” “even as himself.”
He will “dwell with” her “according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life.” He will be true to the letter and the spirit of the sermon on the mount.
Many times blessed is the wife of such a man. The Lord has put an easy task on her. She finds it a pleasure to “reverence her husband.” “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord” sounds beautiful to her ears, that is, if she is a New Testament wife.
God pity the man who has the other kind, and God pity the woman whose husband is not a New Testament husband.—Mary Beam, in Bombay Guardian.