True Womanly Service
S. S. Chronicle
1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house…


Most heartily do we go with Mrs. Fawcett's remarks upon the industrial and professional employment of women, in connection with which she said that a woman with a family, which she brought up well, was doing as great a work, economically and socially, as any person was capable of performing. Scores of mothers, whose sphere of activity is bounded by the walls of their home, and who sometimes deplore their inability to engage in outside work, may take heart on being reminded of this most certain truth. To train a family of children in the fear of God, and the best habits of feeling and conduct, is as precious a work as any that is done under the sun, exercises the very highest qualities of love, patience, and self-denial, and will be recognized on high as the truest service of Christ.

(S. S. Chronicle.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

WEB: I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.




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