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the husband and father. The mother’s work is a solemn and important
one,—to mold the minds and fashion the characters of her children, to
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train them for usefulness here, and to fit them for the future immortal
life.
The husband, in the open missionary field, may receive the honor
of men, while the home toiler may receive no earthly credit for her
labor; but if she works for the best interests of her family, seeking to
fashion their characters after the divine Model, the recording angel
writes her name as one of the greatest missionaries in the world.
The minister’s wife may be a great help to her husband in seeking
to lighten his burden, if she keeps her own soul in the love of God.
She can teach the Word to her children. She can manage her own
household with economy and discretion. United with her husband,
she can educate her children in habits of economy, teaching them to
restrict their wants.—
Gospel Workers, 203
(1915).
Complaining Spirit a Dead Weight—These sisters are closely
connected with the work of God if He has called their husbands to
preach the present truth. These servants, if truly called of God, will feel
the importance of the truth. They are standing between the living and
the dead, and must watch for souls as they that must give an account.
Solemn is their calling, and their companions can be a great blessing or
a great curse to them. They can cheer them when desponding, comfort
them when cast down, and encourage them to look up and trust fully
in God when their faith fails. Or they can take an opposite course,
look upon the dark side, think they have a hard time, exercise no faith
in God, talk their trials and unbelief to their companions, indulge a
complaining, murmuring spirit, and be a dead weight, and even a curse
to them....
An unsanctified wife is the greatest curse that a minister can have.
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Those servants of God that have been and are still so unhappily situated
as to have this withering influence at home, should double their prayers
and their watchfulness, take a firm, decided stand, and let not this
darkness press them down. They should cleave closer to God, be
firm and decided, rule well their own house, and live so that they can
have the approbation of God and the watchcare of the angels. But
if they yield to the wishes of their unconsecrated companions, the
frown of God is brought upon the dwelling. The ark of God cannot