Infirmities and disease especially affect women. The happiness of the family depends much upon the wife and mother. If she is weak and nervous, and is suffered to be overtaxed with labor, the mind becomes depressed, for it sympathizes with the weariness of the body; and then she too often meets with cold reserve from the husband. If everything does not move off just as pleasantly as he could wish, he blames the wife and mother. He is almost wholly unacquainted with her cares and burdens, and does not always know how to sympathize with her. He does not realize that he is aiding the great enemy in his work of tearing down. He should by faith in God lift up a standard against Satan; but he seems blinded to his own interest and hers. He treats her with indifference. He knows not what he is doing. He is working directly against his own happiness and is destroying the happiness of his family. The wife becomes desponding and discouraged. Hope and cheerfulness are gone. She goes her daily rounds mechanically because she sees that her work must be done. Her lack of cheerfulness and courage is felt throughout the family circle. There are many such miserable families all through the ranks of Sabbathkeepers. Angels bear the shameful tidings to heaven, and the recording angel makes a record of it all. {1T 306.1}


Vidnesbyrd for menigheden bind 1 kapitel 62. 306.     Fra side 306 i den engelske udgave.tilbage

Vidnesbyrd 8 (1862)
Kristendom i familien

Svagheder og sygdom angriber navnlig kvinder. Familiens lykke afhænger i høj grad af hustruen og moderen. Er hun svag og nervøs og lader man hende blive overanstrengt af arbejde, nedtrykkes sindet, fordi det påvirkes af den legemlige træthed; og da sker det tit, at hun møder en kold tilbageholdenhed fra mandens side. Dersom alting ikke går så behageligt, som han kunne ønske, lægger han skylden på hustruen og moderen. Han er næsten fuldstændig blottet for kendskab til hendes bekymringer og byrder og forstår ikke altid at sympatisere med hende. Han indser ikke, at han bistår den store fjende i hans arbejde med at nedbryde. Ved tro på Gud bør han opløfte et banner imod Satan; men han synes at være blind for sine egne og hendes interesser. Han behandler hende med ligegyldighed. Han ved ikke, hvad han gør. Han modarbejder umiddelbart sin egen lykke og ødelægger lykken for sin familie. Hustruen bliver modløs og forsagt. Håbet og glæden forsvinder. Mekanisk udfører hun sin gerning i den daglige runde, fordi hun ser, at hendes arbejde må gøres. Hendes mangel på glæde og frimodighed mærkes i hele familiekredsen. Der er mange sådanne ulykkelige familier overalt i sabbatsholdernes rækker. Engle bringer den beskæmmende beretning til himmelen og den skrivende engel nedtegner det alt sammen.

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