Friday, January 3, 2003
An Evangelist's Wife Comments
Rating: ★2.5
“Why am I not myself these many days,
You ask? And have you nothing more to ask?
I do you wrong? I do not hear your praise
To God for giving you me to share your task?
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8/1/2025 3:16:37 AM # 1.0.0
A bitingly brilliant poem by E.A. I not only admire the form of this work, but the substance as well. Ironic that the Bible informs us that God is love (I John 4: 8) , but the evangelist could not spare any of that love for his wife. He became straight-jacketed by the madness of self-righteousness, striving for the justification of others in Heaven, while condemning his wife to her own lonesome.