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.