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disease destroys the health of a body, or as revolutions undermine the safety of the Empires. These moral imperfections must therefore disappear; that leaven ought no longer to seen; but neither ought it to remain hidden, for even if it is not seen, it works destruction. You have the power of performing such a task, however, difficult it maybe. You are not weak. Your weakness is only apparent. You are the "faint" to whom God gives power, & those who have no might to whom God gives strength. CROSSED OUT (Your husbands' authority may be exerted over you, but government of the house lies in your hands, & upon you its responsibility rests). Pharoah is making Joseph ruler over all the law of Eg. gave him the royal ring say with the words "Thou shalt not be over my house" And so it has been with you since the day on which you received the ring of matrimony. You can & you do exercise great infuence. Be anxious then that this influence be virtuous & beneficial. Excercise it first over your husbands themselves. CROSSED OUT (Be good wives, true Jewish wives_). Constantly struggling against the foaming stream of society, unsuccessful in their transactions deceived in their Expectations, defrauded by so-called friends, stung by calamity, they bring hom the leaven of irritation, alonne (?) & dejection.