Wives/Helpmeets - More Gleanings from 'Bunyan's Characters' by A. Whyte

"The first woman whom God Almighty made bore from her Maker to her husband this noble name [Help].
Her Father, so to speak, gave her away under this noble name. And of all the sweet and noble names that a woman bears, there is none so rich, so sweet, so lasting, and so fruitful as just her first Divine name of a helpmeet.

And how favoured of God is that man to be accounted whose life still continues to draw meet help out of his wife's fulness of help, till all her and his days together he is able to say, I have of God a helpmeet indeed!
For in how many sloughs do many men lie till this daughter of Help gives them her hand, and out of how many more sloughs are they all their days by her delivered and kept!

Let every young man seek his future wife of God, and let him seek her of her Divine Father under that fine, homely, divine name.
For God, who knoweth what we have need of before we ask Him, likes nothing better than to make a helpmeet for those who so ask Him, and still to bring the woman to the man under that so spouse-like name."