Who that has tried to follow that divine precept, "As ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so," but has suffered from the situation, when human passions in their reaction have accorded that individual the very opposite of her motives.
We have been made the repository of little else than the troubles and indiscretions of other people, since laboring to uplift the race physically and morally, but have shrunk above all things from any interference with family difficulties. Thought has grown dizzy with labor to counsel wisely whenever we have consented to give counsel on personal topics. We have said to the child whose parents were complained of, "Love and honor thy parents, yielding: obedience to them in all that is right; but you have the rights of conscience as we all have, and follow God in all thy ways." When we have yielded to the constant solicitations of a husband and wife to give advice in their difficulties, we have done it to the best of our ability, and always with a purpose to restore harmony and prevent public disgrace. In such cases we have said to them, "Take no counsel of mortals, even though it be a mother or husband; but be guided alone by God:" meaning by this, as they well knew, not to estrange them from each other, but for them to find the remedy in divine Love for all human discord.
