A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

een consumed upon the altar of base passion. It
has been sacrificed to please her husband. She soon
loses respect for her husband, who does not regard
the laws to which the brute creation yields
obedience. The married life become a galling yoke;
for love dies out, and, frequently, distrust, jealousy,
and hate, take its place.
No man can truly love his wife if she will
patiently submit to become his slave, and minister
to his degraded passions. She loses, in her passive
submission, the value she once possessed in his
eyes. He sees her dragged down from everything
elevating, to a low level, and soon he suspects that
she will, perhaps, as tamely submit to be degraded
by another as by himself. He doubts her constancy
and purity, tires of her, and seeks new objects
which will arouse and intensify his hellish
passions. The law of God is not regarded. These
men are worse than brutes. They are demons in
human form. They are unacquainted with the
elevating, ennobling principles of true, of
sanctified, love.
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