Religion: The Minister’s Wife

Ten commandments for ministers’ wives, as presented to the Southern California Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, in annual camp meeting assembled:

I. Thou shalt have no other interests more important to thee than thy husband’s.

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any church clique or anything resembling it.

III. Thou shalt not take thy husband’s name in vain.

IV. Remember thy intimate family matters, to keep them secret.

V. Honor thy husband by keeping thy place, that his years of ministry in the cause of God may be long.

VI. Thou shalt not gossip.

VII. Thou shalt not be a burden on others.

VIII. Thou shalt not appear untidy.

IX. Thou shalt not covet a taste beyond thy husband’s income.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy lay sister’s, or fellow minister’s house, furniture, car, or whatsoever thy sister may have.