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

notwithstanding his lack of encouraging her
confidence. My brother, you should pursue a
course that would encourage your timid, shrinking
wife to lean upon your large affections, and this
would give you a chance, in a delicate, affectionate
manner, to correct the errors existing in her, as far
as you are capable of so doing, and to inspire her
with confidence in herself.
I was shown that you had not possessed that
love for your wife that you should. Satan has taken
advantage of her defects and your errors, to work
for the destruction of your family. You have
suffered shame of your wife to come into your
heart, and your respect has grown less and less for
her whom you vowed to love and cherish until
death should part you.
Danger of Confiding Family Troubles
October 25, 1868, your case was again
presented before me. I was shown that evil
thoughts and unlawful desires have led to improper
acts and to a violation of the commandments of
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