A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

Respect your hired help, treat them kindly,
considerately, but go no farther. Let your
deportment be such that there will be no advances
to familiarity from your help. If you have words of
kindness and acts of courtesy to give, it is always
safe to give them to your wife. It will be a great
blessing to her, and will bring happiness to her
heart which will be reflected back upon you again.
Also, the wife may let her sympathies and interest
and affection go out to another man beside her
husband. He may be a member of the family,
whom she makes a confidant, and to whom she
relates her troubles, and, perhaps, her private
family matters. She shows a preference for his
society.
Satan is at the bottom of this; and unless she
can be alarmed, and stopped just where she is, he
will lead her to ruin. My sisters, you cannot
observe too great caution in this matter. If you have
tender, loving words and kindly attentions to
bestow, let them be given him you have promised
before God and angels to love, honor and respect,
while you both shall live. Oh! how many lives are
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