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I sleep alone. This seems to be Mary's preference as well as mine. I can have a better opportunity for reflection and prayer. I prize my [being] all to myself unless graced with your presence. I want to share my bed only with you.— Letter 6, 1876 .

… was opportunity to test the depth of his affections, as well as his ability to provide for a family. In our time many evils result from pursuing an opposite …

… if opportunity should offer, he would just as readily pay his addresses to another as to her. She sees that he is not controlled by conscience or the fear of …

… the opportunity of seeing the father offering kindly attentions to the mother and the mother rendering respect and reverence to the father. It is by beholding …

… her opportunity to exercise her tact or her taste because you have not a proper realization of the position that a wife should occupy. Your wife has an excellent …

… the opportunity of showing hospitality is not regarded as it should be, as a privilege and blessing. There is altogether too little sociability, too little …

… this opportunity to remember the poor among us....

… precious opportunity for service.

… every opportunity of laying hands upon Me, and you did nothing. The night is better suited to your work. “This is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

… the opportunity she would find ways to spend even more means than she has done. With her, selfish gratifications have never been overcome, and this natural …