p. 490 | WAIT | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1880

WAIT.

WAIT, husband, before you wonder audibly why your wife don't get on with the household affairs "as your mother did;" she is doing her best, and no woman can endure at best to be slighted. Remember the long weary nights she sat up with the little babe that died; remember the love and care she bestowed upon you when you had that long spell of sickness. Do you think she is made of cast iron? Wait—wait in silence and forbearance, and the light will come back to her eyes—the old light of the old days. Wait, wife, before you speak reproachfully to your husband when he comes home late, weary, and "out of sorts." He worked hard for you all day—perhaps far into the night; he has wrestled, hand in hand with care, and selfishness, and greed, and all the demons that follow in the train of money-making. Let home be another atmosphere entirely. Let him feel that there is one place in the wide world where he can find peace, quiet, and perfect love.