Religion in the Family

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1892

Religion in the Family

"My wife is a professor of religion," said a healthy and apparently sensible man of the world, "and I am standing off to see what good it is doing her." The exquisite meanness of the remark escaped his blunted faculties of perception. Is it the wife's business to have and exhibit all the religion in the family? The husband who does not realize that he also ought to lay to and give her all possible help, is a selfish churl. If his wife were rowing a boat against a stiff current, and her life depended on the result, would it be wise or manly for him to sit on the bank of the stream and coolly pass judgment on the skill of her strokes? And yet this is just about what some husbands are doing. Shame on such thoroughgoing smallness of soul!—Selected.