Miller on Monday

Home-making..The Wife's Part

J R Miller

Every true wife makes her husband’s interests her own.

While he lives for her, carrying her image in his heart and toiling for her all the days, she thinks only of what will do him good.

When burdens press upon him she tries to lighten them by sympathy, by cheer, by the inspiration of love.

She enters with zest and enthusiasm into all his plans.

 She is never a weight to drag him down; she is strength in his heart to help him ever to do nobler and better things.

A true wife makes a man’s life nobler, stronger, grander, by the omnipotence of her love “turning all the forces of manhood upward and heavenward.”

While she clings to him in holy confidence and loving dependence she brings out in him whatever is noblest and richest in his being.

She inspires him with courage and earnestness.

She beautifies his life.

She softens whatever is rude and harsh in his habits or his spirit.

She clothes him with the gentler graces of refined and cultured manhood.

While she yields to him and never disregards his lightest wish, she is really his queen, ruling his whole life and leading him onward and upward in every proper path.

...Again let me say that no wife can over estimate the influence she wields over her husband or the measure in which his character, his career and his very destiny are laid in her hands for shaping.
The sway which she holds over him is the sway of love, but it is mighty and resistless.
If she retains her power, if she holds her place as queen of his life, she can do with him as she will.
Even unconsciously to herself, without any thought of her responsibility, she will exert over him an influence that will go far toward making or marring all his future.
If she has no lofty conception of life herself, if she is vain and frivolous, she will only chill his ardor, weaken his resolution and draw him aside from any earnest endeavor.
But if she has in her soul noble womanly qualities, if she has true thoughts of life, if she has purpose, strength of character and fidelity to principle, she will be to him an unfailing inspiration toward all that is noble, manly and Christlike.