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

husbands because the larger portion of their time is
not spent waiting upon them. They complain of
being neglected when their husbands are doing the
very work they ought to do. Satan finds easy access
to this class. They have no real love for anyone but
themselves. Yet Satan tells them that if such a one
were their husband, they would be happy indeed.
They are easy victims to the device of Satan, being
readily led to dishonor their own husbands and to
transgress the law of God.
I would say to women of this description: You
can make or destroy your own happiness. You can
make your position happy or unbearable. The
course which you pursue will create happiness or
misery for yourself. Have these persons never
thought that their husbands must tire of them in
their uselessness, their peevishness, their
faultfinding, their passionate fits of weeping while
imagining their case so pitiful? Their irritable,
peevish disposition is indeed weaning from them
the affections of their husbands and driving them to
seek for sympathy, and peace, and comfort
elsewhere than at home. A poisonous atmosphere
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