Ephesians 5:24

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

In the continuing analogy, the true life of the church is her head, who is Christ; and the true achievement and fulfillment of the wife is in her husband. This is the Christian view of the family. The current social unrest could indicate that this ancient concept will be overturned; but if it is ever supplanted by another, women will not, in any sense, gain by the change. Apart from the teachings of Jesus Christ and the apostles, the status of woman in society has tended to be lower and lower; and there can be no doubt whatever that if woman should reject her place in the Christian home, as taught in the New Testament, the same forces which in the past destroyed and degraded her in practically every society on earth would again overwhelm and crush her. Like the poor prodigal who resented the restrictions of his incumbency in the father's house, but found those of the "far country" to be far more cruel and oppressive, woman may choose to forsake the gains of the centuries in the Father's house for the fancied delights of "the far country"; but, if so, she will find, as did the prodigal, that Satan is still in the swine business!