Susan Hunt compares Scripture with the words of one famous American in her book, Spiritual Mothering (p.42). I thought it was worth sharing:
Proverbs 31:10 says, “ A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies,” John Adams, our second President, seemed to think so, too. He said in his autobiography:
“From all that I had read of history and government of human life and manners, I had drawn this conclusion, that the manners of women were the most infallible barometer to ascertain the degree of morality and virtue of a nation. The Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Swiss, the Dutch, all lost their public spirit and their republican forms of government when they lost the modesty and domestic virtues of their women.”
Certainly this is a lofty opinion of the power of women upon a society. Truth, or just an old-fashioned mindset?
