Jonathan Edwards and his wife were considered a good team. Sarah grew up in a parsonage learning how to be a minister’s wife. George Whitefield, famous revivalist from England, once visited their home and said, “A sweeter couple I have not seen.”Single when he first met them, Whitefield began to pray that God would give him such a companion as Sarah Edwards. Samuel Hopkins, an apprentice preacher at the time, recalled, “No one of discernment could be conversant in the family without observing and admiring the perfect harmony and mutual love and esteem that subsisted between them.”
Jonathan himself said that Sarah’s conversation “entertained him”; her spirit encouraged his spiritual life and her presence “brought him peace.” He had great respect for what his wife thought, so each night he would read to her what he had written that day and listen to her response before they had devotions together.
- God’s General’s ( The Revivalists )