Mrs. Leon Apple, the wife of a preacher who recently died, was speaking to the 120-man committee, mostly preachers, of the North American Christian Convention in St. Louis. She said, "I always said I'd rather hear Leon Apple preach than any man I knew, because I was sure that he lived what he preached at home, and I wasn't sure about some of you guys."

Every preacher sat there thinking, Boy, I wish my wife felt that way about me. Wives, don't underestimate the size of the man's ego. He wants to be the hero. And when you cut him down in public, when you're disinterested in the things that he's interested in, when you ridicule the things that are important to him, it discourages him.