p. 6 | A WIFE'S POWER

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 2, 1879

A WIFE'S POWER.

The power of a wife, for good or evil, is irresistible. Without one, home must be forever unknown. 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 delights in enterprise and action, but to sustain him he needs a tranquil mind; and especially if he is an intelligent man, with a whole head, he needs his moral force in the conflict of life. To recover his composure, home must be a place of peace and comfort. There his soul renews its strength, and goes forth with fresh vigor to encounter the labor and troubles of life. But if at home he finds no rest, and is there met with bad temper, sullenness, jealousy, and gloom, or assailed with complaints and censure, hope vanishes, and he sinks into despair. Such is the case with too many who, it might seem, have no conflicts or trials of life, for such is the wife's power.