Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

ministered unto, instead of ministering to others.
You are not helpful enough to offset the burden
you are to your husband and to those around you.
Those who cannot wisely manage their own
child or children are not qualified to act wisely in
church matters or to deal with wiry minds subject
to Satan's special temptations. If they can
cheerfully and lovingly perform the part required
of them as parents, then they can better understand
how to bear burdens in the church. Dear sister, I
advise you to make a good wife to your husband
and a good home for him. Rely upon your own
resources, and lean less heavily upon him. Arouse
yourself to do the very work which the Lord would
have you do. You are inclined to be anxious to do
some great work, to fill some large mission, and
neglect the small duties right in your path, which
are just as necessary to be accomplished as the
larger. You walk over these and aspire to a larger
work. Let your ambition be aroused to be useful, to
be a workman in the world instead of a spectator.
My dear sister, I speak plainly; for I dare not do
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