A Christian Home

Priestess, wife, and mother, there she minister[ed] daily in holy works of household peace, and by faith and prayer and love redeem[ed] from grossness and earthliness the common toils and wants of life;... and whether she washed or ironed, or moulded biscuit or conserved plums, her gentle beauty seemed to turn to poetry all the prose of life.

—Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing, ps 326, 15.