A Solemn Appeal - James White

children can be well cared for, and educated. A
child in the mother's arms from year to year is great
injustice to her. It lessens, and often destroys,
social enjoyment, and increases domestic
wretchedness. It robs their children of that care,
education, and happiness, which parents should
feel it their duty to bestow upon them.
The husband violates the marriage vow and the
duties enjoined upon him in the word of God, when
he disregards the health and happiness of the wife,
by increasing her burdens and cares by numerous
offspring. "Husbands, love your wives, even as
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for
it. So ought men to love their wives as their own
bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For
no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth
and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church."
We see this holy injunction almost wholly
disregarded, even by professed Christians.
Everywhere you may look, you will see pale,
sickly, careworn, broken-down, dispirited,
discouraged women. They are generally
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