“And as Christ labored for His church,
not only during His abode upon earth, but made provision for its welfare when
He departed from our world, in like manner should the husband take care of his
wife. I never could understand the propriety of that custom, which is but too
common, of men’s providing by their wills so much better for the children than
they do for the mother. Does this look like a supreme love? Every man who raises a woman to the rank of his
wife should take care, however inferior she might have been in circumstances
before their marriage, to leave her in the situation into which he brought her.
It is indeed most cruel to leave her to be deprived at once, not only of her
dearest earthly friend, but of her usual means of comfortable subsistence.”
A practical affection to a wife extends,
however, to everything: it should manifest itself in the most delicate
attention to her comfort and her feelings; in consulting her tastes; in
concealing her failings, in never doing anything to degrade her, but everything
to exalt her before her children and servants; in acknowledging her
excellencies and commending her efforts to please him; in meeting and even in
anticipating all her reasonable requests; in short, in doing all that ingenuity
can invent for her substantial happiness and general comfort.”
-John Angell James English Minister and Author 1785-1859
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