The paper analyzes the religious instructions of maidservants in the Catholic magazine Notburga in Imperial Germany and shows how the religiosity and attendant emotions of maidservants were not their private affair but a widely debated public matter. In Germany, maidservants routinely were defamed as impious, lazy, disobedient, and sexually promiscuous, and their moral improvement became a topic of an intense public discussion in which the Catholic Church became a key participant. The Church's interest in this debate known as the Dienstbotenfrage (servant question) was threefold. First, the Church had a history of offering charity and pastoral care to poor, Catholic maidservants. Second, Catholic leaders believed that only religion could guarantee women's docility and sexual propriety and, by extension, the stability and prosperity of the nation. Third, the Church used the debate to fight what it perceived as the destructive influence of Social Democracy on German society—in particular its popularity among the poor. In publications like Notburga, the Church insisted on a religiously informed emotional regime of a pious, loving bond between maid and mistress as the only solution to the servant question. The magazine's singular focus was on the trope of the exemplary, pious maidservant, and this paper illuminates how the magazine encouraged and admonished its readers to emulate this ideal through the embrace of a particular feminine religiosity. In practice, this meant the cultivation of specific emotions. A pious maidservant was content in her poverty, pursued her hard and menial work with joy, bore her pain with equanimity, and loved her employer, even if the latter abused her. She also suppressed any undesirable emotions such as sexual passions, jealousy, and greed. The intersection between religion and emotions thus offers scholars important tools to study the continued relevance of religion in debates about gender, class, and politics in modern Germany.