Chapter 16
"That We May Become One"
“Should there not be union in the
family? ...Most assuredly there should…And in this matter the father…And the
wife should make herself just as perfect as a woman can possibly do in this life. And then they are prepared to make their
children just as perfect as they are willing and are capable of being made
perfect. The wife should never in the
presence of her children speak disrespectfully of her husband. If she thinks her husband has done wrong (he
might have done), she should never speak of it in the presence of her
children. She should take him out of the
presence of her children and there tell him of his faults, in a pleasant way,
but never in the presence of the children speak disrespectfully of the
father. And the father the same. He has no right to speak disrespectfully of
his wife in the presence of her children.
And I pray God to give the husband and wife the spirit and the understanding to correct themselves in such matters. I know that a great many of the difficulties that no appear, and the disrespect that we find in reference to the Priesthood, among young people, arises from this fact, that there have been difficulties in the home circle and there has been disrespect expressed in their presence, of the father by the mother, or of the mother by the father. Now, I know these things are so.”
