The question has been asked whether a minister's wife
should adopt infant children. I answer: if she has no
inclination or fitness to engage in missionary work outside
her home, and feels it her duty to take orphan children
and care for them, she may do a good work. But let the
choice of children be first made from among those who
have been left orphans by Sabbathkeeping parents. God
will bless men and women as they with willing hearts
share their homes with these homeless ones. But if the
minister's wife can herself act a part in the work of
educating others, she should consecrate her powers to God
as a Christian worker. She should be a true helper to her
husband, assisting him in his work, improving her
intellect, and helping to give the message. The way is open
for humble, consecrated women, dignified by the grace
of Christ, to visit those in need of help, and shed light
into discouraged souls. They can lift up the bowed down
by praying with them and pointing them to Christ. Such
should not devote their time and strength to one helpless
little mortal that requires constant care and attention.
They should not thus voluntarily tie their hands.