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Individuality
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wealth of your affection flow forth to Him who gave His life for you.
Make Christ first and last and best in everything. As your love for Him
becomes deeper and stronger, your love for each other will be purified
and strengthened.
The spirit that Christ manifests toward us is the spirit that husband
and wife are to manifest toward each other. “As Christ also hath loved
us,” “walk in love.” “As the church is subject unto Christ, so let the
wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it.”
No Arbitrary Control—Neither the husband nor the wife should
attempt to exercise over the other an arbitrary control. Do not try to
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compel each other to yield to your wishes. You cannot do this and
retain each other’s love. Be kind, patient and forbearing, considerate
and courteous. By the grace of God you can succeed in making
each other happy, as in your marriage vow you promised to do.—
The
Review and Herald, December 10, 1908
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I was then shown his daughter-in-law. She is beloved of God, but
held in servile bondage, fearing, trembling, desponding, doubting,
and very nervous. This sister should not feel that she must yield
her will to a godless youth who has less years upon his head than
herself. She should remember that her marriage does not destroy her
individuality. God has claims upon her higher than any earthly claim.
Christ has bought her with His own blood. She is not her own. She
fails to put her entire trust in God, and submits to yield her convictions,
her conscience, to an overbearing, tyrannical man, fired up by Satan
whenever his satanic majesty can work effectually through him to
intimidate this trembling, shrinking soul. She has so many times been
thrown into agitation that her nervous system is shattered, and she is
merely a wreck.
Is it the will of the Lord that this sister should be in this state and
God be robbed of her service? No. Her marriage was a deception of
the devil. Yet now she should make the best of it, treat her husband
with tenderness, and make him as happy as she can without violating
her conscience; for if he remains in his rebellion, this world is all the
heaven he will have. But to deprive herself of the privilege of meetings,
to gratify an overbearing husband possessing the spirit of the dragon,
is not according to God’s will. He wants this trembling soul to flee
to Him. He will be a covert to her. He will be like the shadow of a