Chapter II: The Temper of the Wife, and Mother

I. What she should _not_ be.

1. Provoking. Eph. vi. 4. Prov. xv. 1. Gal. v. 26.

2. Easily provoked. 1 Cor. xiii. 5. Jam. i. 19.

3. Brawling. Prov. xxi. 9; xxv. 24.

4. Contentious. Prov. xix. 13; xxi. 19; xxvii. 15.

II. What she _should_ be.

1. Gentle. 1 Thess. ii. 7. 1 Pet. iii. 4. Children are soon
frightened by rough words, or rough treatment.

2. Forbearing. Eph. iv. 2. Col. iii. 13. If _you_ cannot bear with
your children, who will?

3. Patient. 1 Thess. v. 14. Eccles. vii. 8. A mother has need of
great patience.

4. Loving. Tit. ii. 4.

III. In your daily temper take Christ as your example.

‘_Consider Him_ who endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest ye be weary, and faint in your minds.’ Heb. xii. 3.