A Solemn Appeal - James White

were their husband, they would be happy indeed.
They are easy victims to the device of Satan, easy
to be led to dishonor their own husbands, and to
transgress the law of God.
I would say to women of this description, You
can make your own happiness, or you can destroy
it. You can make your position happy, or
unbearable. The course you pursue will create
happiness or misery for yourself. Have these never
thought that their husbands must tire of them in
their uselessness, in their peevishness, in their
fault-finding, in their passionate fits of weeping,
while imagining their case so pitiful? Their
irritable, peevish disposition is indeed weaning the
affections of their husbands from them, and driving
them to seek for sympathy, and peace, and comfort,
elsewhere than at home. A poisonous atmosphere
is in their dwelling. And home is anything but a
place of rest, or peace and happiness to them. The
husband is subject to Satan's temptation, and his
affections are placed on forbidden objects, and he
is lured on to crime, and finally lost.
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