I was shown the life of Brother B in his family. Angels wept as they viewed his course at home, as they viewed the unloved wife, who receives no respect from him whose duty it is to love and cherish her as his own body, even as Christ has loved and cherished the church. He takes pains to make her defects apparent and to exalt his own wisdom and judgment and to make her feel her inferiority in company and alone. Notwithstanding she is illiterate, her spirit is far more acceptable to God than the spirit of her husband. God looks upon Sister B with feelings of the deepest pity. She lives out the principles of truth, as far as she has light, much better than her husband. She will not be answerable for the light and knowledge that her husband has had but which she has not had. He could be a light and comfort and blessing to her, but his influence is used in a wrong way. He reads to her what he pleases, that which will give strength to his views and his ideas, while he keeps back essential light which he does not want her to hear. {3T 453.2}

Jeg fik vist bror B's liv i hans familie. Engle græd da de så hans opførsel hjemme, da de så den upåagtede hustru, som ikke får nogen respekt fra ham som har pligt til at elske og værne om hende som sig selv, lige som Kristus har elsket og værnet om kirken. Han gør sig umage for at gøre hendes mangler tydelige og for at ophøje sin egen klogskab og dømmekraft og få hende til at føle hendes underlegenhed når de er i selskab og alene. Selv om hun er analfabet, er hendes ånd langt mere acceptabel over for Gud end hendes mands. Gud ser på søster B med den største medynk. Hun gennemlever sandhedens principper, lige så meget som hun har lys, meget bedre end hendes mand. Hun vil ikke være ansvarlig for det lys og den kundskab som hendes mand har haft men som hun ikke har haft. Han kunne være til lys og trøst og velsignelse for hende, men hans indflydelse bruges på en forkert måde. Han læser det for hende som han behager, det som vil give styrke for hans synspunkter og hans ideer, medens han holder det væsentlige lys tilbage som han ikke ønsker at hun skal høre.