Relationship Between Husband and Wife
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The more the animal passions are indulged, the stronger do they
become, and the more violent will be their clamors for indulgence.
Let God-fearing men and women awake to their duty. Many professed
Christians are suffering with paralysis of nerve and brain because of
their intemperance in this direction.
Husbands to Be Considerate
Husbands should be careful, attentive, constant, faithful, and com-
passionate. They should manifest love and sympathy. If they fulfill
the words of Christ, their love will not be of a base, earthly, sensual
character that will lead to the destruction of their own bodies and bring
upon their wives debility and disease. They will not indulge in the
gratification of base passions, while ringing in the ears of their wives
that they must be subject to the husband in everything. When the
husband has the nobility of character, purity of heart, elevation of
mind that every true Christian must possess, it will be made manifest
in the marriage relation. If he has the mind of Christ, he will not be a
destroyer of the body, but will be full of tender love, seeking to reach
the highest standard in Christ.
No man can truly love his wife when she will patiently submit to
become his slave and minister to his depraved passions. In her passive
submission she loses the value she once possessed in his eyes. He sees
her dragged down from everything elevating to a low level, and soon
he suspects that she will as tamely submit to be degraded by another
as by himself. He doubts her constancy and purity, tires of her, and
seeks new objects to arouse and intensify his hellish passions. The
law of God is not regarded. These men are worse than brutes; they
are demons in human form. They are unacquainted with the elevating,
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ennobling principles of true, sanctified love.
The wife also becomes jealous of the husband and suspects that if
opportunity should offer, he would just as readily pay his addresses to
another as to her. She sees that he is not controlled by conscience or
the fear of God; all these sanctified barriers are broken down by lustful
passions; all that is Godlike in the husband is made the servant of low,
brutish lust.