A Noble Wife | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1873

A Noble Wife.

REV. DR. HOPKINS, in referring to the success of the late Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, Mass., says: “In 1827, he was married to Mary S. Brace, eldest child of Rev. Joab Brace, for fifty years minister of Newington, Ct. In relation to this, I will simply transcribe his own testimony, and I do it for the honor of the blessed institution which God has honored, and through which the world will become happy in proportion as men shall honor it. ‘And here’ he says, ‘I want to say emphatically, that, if ever I have accomplished anything, ever avoided mistakes, ever in any degree honored the Master, I greatly attribute it to an influence which men are not always prompt to acknowledge. In my home has been a life swallowed up in my success, willing to be unknown and out of sight, unwearied in giving encouragement and rousing to effort; prompt and cheerful in concealing my defects and in covering my deficiencies; kind to apologize for what cannot be approved; uncomplaining when worn down by heavy burdens such as few are called to bear; more than ready to be unselfish, and to wear out, that others might profit by my labors. I say it is there, in that life, I have found the source and cause of all I have done. Oh! wife of my youth! Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.’”