A Preacher's Wife

Cecil Willis, Akron, Ohio

"The wife of a traveling evangelist will always be the proper object of pity and sympathy, if pity and sympathy are to be given. She is not cheered by the smiles of admiring crowds, nor does she feel the intoxication of flattering tongues. She dwells at home in the desolation and loneliness of a practical widowhood, and often ekes out a meager support from a stingy and starving salary.

"But somebody has to do this frontier and pioneer work; and might it not as well be me and my wife as any other man and his wife?"

— Recollections of Pardee Butler, p. 262

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