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Counsels for the Church
Counsel to Husbands and Wives on Matters of Money
All should learn how to keep accounts. Some neglect this work
as non-essential, but this is wrong. All expenses should be accurately
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The means you have earned has not been wisely and economically
expended so as to leave a margin should you be sick and your family
deprived of the means you bring to sustain them. Your family should
have something to rely upon if you should be brought into straitened
places
You must help each other. Do not look upon it as a virtue to hold
fast the purse strings, refusing to give your wife money.
You should allow your wife a certain sum weekly and should let
her do what she please with this money. You have not given her
opportunity to exercise her tact or her taste because you have not a
proper realization of the position that a wife should occupy. Your wife
has an excellent and a well-balanced mind.
Give your wife a share of the money that you receive. Let her
have this as her own, and let her use it as she desires. She should
have been allowed to use the means that she earned as she in her
judgment deemed best. If she had had a certain sum to use as her own,
without being criticized, a great weight would have been lifted from
her mind
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The Adventist Home, 374
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The Adventist Home, 395, 396
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The Adventist Home, 378