3:1-8 and Ephesians 5:22-24, 33. The result of the curse upon the woman was that she would be ruled over by her husband. This is the re vealed will of God. I have noticed that in this educa tion-prone day women have been brain-washed into the idea that they do not have to take a submissive role. Such educators do not under stand two things: one, the egocen tric nature of men, and two, the leaning role of women. God has put in a woman’s heart a capacity to be a dependent person. It doesn’t show up too' much in the early years. A girl may be rebellious, independent or self-sufficient. But as she goes on in life, if she is a normal woman, she will respond to this need for someone to lean on. Alas, if she has been the dominant one in the early years before she reaches her 35’s to 40’s when this usually kicks in, she will have created a man who himself is a leaner, and she will have no one upon whom she can lean. The only answer is to start off by faith in obedience to God’s laws and let the wife be in subjection to her own husband. Ladies, I would like to share something about your hus band. Do you know that your hus band is more egocentric than you? We have a tendency to think that women are more egocentric than men, but that’s not true. Women may be a little more vain, but they are not more egocentric. A man does not have the capacity to be a happy creature unless he is the head of his home. I have never known an ex ception. In fact, I have often shared this thought. I have never known a happy henpecker in my life, nor have I ever known a happy henpecked man. No man is going to be content to let a woman lead him around by the nose. Many a man is led by the nose, but he is not content and chil dren cannot be raised properly where the woman dominates. That is one great reason why we
A CHRISTIAN’S TESTIMONY Not half the storms that threaten me E’er broke upon my head; Not half the pains I’ve waited for E’er reached me or my bed. Not half the clouds that drifted by Have overshadowed me; Not half the dangers ever came I fancied I could see. Dear Heavenly Father, hold my hand Each moment lest I fall. Thine is the power to keep . . . my part, To let Thee, that is all. I dare not take one step alone; And, Oh, how sweet to know Thy loving, mighty, tender clasp Will never let me go. Father, our children keep! We know not what is coming on the earth; Beneath the shadow of thy heav enly wing, Oh keep them, keep them, Thou who gav’st them birth. Father, draw nearer us! Draw firmer round us Thy protecting arm; Oh, clasp our children close to Thy side, Uninjured in the day of earth’s alarm. Them in Thy chambers hide! Oh, hide them and preserve them calm and safe, When sin abounds and error flows abroad, And Satan tempts, our human pas sions chafe. Oh, keep them undefiled! Unspotted from a tempting world of sin; That, clothed in white, through the bright city gates, They may with us in triumph enter in. — Horatius Bonar 13 A PRAYER FOR CHILDREN
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