Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

testimonies given have had effect but a short time. The light has been but partiallyfollowed. Obedience and devotion to God have been forgotten, many have disregardedthe sacred obligation resting upon them to improve the light and privileges given, andwalk as children of the light. If the veil could be parted and all could see just how theircases are regarded in heaven, there would be an awakening, and each would with fearinquire, What shall I do to be saved?The minister’s wife who is not devoted to God is no help to her husband. While hedwells upon the necessity of bearing the cross and urges the importance of self-denial,the daily example of his wife often contradicts his preaching and destroys its force. Inthis way she becomes a great hindrance and often leads her husband away from his dutyand from God. She does not realize what a sin she is committing. Instead of seeking tobe useful, seeking with true love for souls to help such as need help, she shrinks fromthe task and prefers a useless life. She is not constrained by the power of Christ’s loveand by unselfish, holy principles. She does not choose to do the will of God, to be aco-worker with her husband, with angels, and with God. When the wife of the ministeraccompanies her husband in his mission to save souls, it is a great sin for her to hinderhim in his work by manifesting unhappy discontent. Yet instead of entering heartilyinto his labors, seeking every opportunity to unite her interest and labor with his, sheoften studies how she can make it more easy or pleasant for herself. If things aroundthem are not as agreeable as she could wish (as they will not always be), she should notindulge homesick feelings, or by lack of cheerfulness and by spoken complaints harassthe husband and make his task harder, and perhaps by her discontent draw him fromthe place where he could do good. She should not divert the interest of her husbandfrom laboring for the salvation of souls, to sympathize with her ailments and gratifyher whimsical,450