Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-09-10

wish for a wife who shall be truly pous. Harry
| now found, moreover, that there vast diff
ference between false. ostentatious christianity
and the pure re- glon which Ellen practscd SC
unobtrusively.
| ..And are you really going TO marry Ellen F.
den!" said of his friends 10 him. 81 hear
| she is canting regonisi!''
! 81 am about 10 marry her. he replied. "What
you mean by canting religionist do no, exact
| ly know; bu, Ellen, however pious she may be
has nothing of can't.
'She teaches Sunday School,
'Bu, is not that merit rather than otherwise.
Surely to devote three hours, every Sabbath. to
the gra,uituous mental and moral inst ruction of
others is self-dcnying task worthy of all praise;
and you will agree with me that tho time thus
occupied Is spent moro boneticially than dressing
for ball room.
II am stranger here, and know nothing Of
Miss Eden" said his friend, with some ombar-
rassment. 'Excusc mo for what said. am
sure | would rather have pious wife than an
infidc one.''
..Thero vou arc right. and II IS that conclusion
that has made me seek Ellen for companion.
am only happy that she loves me- am un-
worthy of ono so good and pure. Believe INC,
my dear Frank the best thing a man can do Is
to choose woman with strong religious fconSs.
RccoIlcct the wife is to be tho mother OF your
childrcn-your consolor in days of trouble
tho guido, who ever by your side, with sweet
smiles and angelic words, is to win you up to
hcavcn.-What would man be without woman!--
4 nd how dreadful TO see nm irroliglous female,
ono without any hope affections except for the
world. who is thinking continually of galty and
vain show. and who perhaps goes oil to bail
when n child or husband is lying almost Oh tho
point of death, with no one TO turn the thoughts To
better world
81 mover considered tho subject seriously
before said his friend. graspng his hand. ''Bat
feel that you are right"
.Yos' said Harry, .and even inGde,-strangc
rs it may scom profor a conscientious VITO before
" ho mocks at rc gion.
Il sco.' replied his friend, show it is that
true love and religion so Intimately connect
ed. Reverence is prominent part In both. !
too will seek wife like Miss Elem With those
words they parted.
Harry Conner and our sweet Ellen wcro mar
ricd within month Of this conversation; and
happier couple whore lives. Tho husba nd,
like his uncle, has bocomo consistent christian
and chiefly through the gentle persuasion of his
wife. Tho house is always open to innocent GAL
city, chccrfulness ha, her abode thsre, and all in
our village. low and high alike, love them.
a word on Isabel before classroom
tho day of the picnic, sho saw that her influence
ovor the young heir WINS departing. Sho mado
several aboriivo struggles TO retain him, bat find
ing all in vain and unwilling to have it thought
any rival had supp'antod her, she hastily accept
ed offer from transient admrcr and was
married about thrco weeks before Ellen. Bat
the i-assor:cd match turned out unhappy, as
might have been expected; and for several years
the once admired Isabel has boon living IN secu-
sion with hor parents. q deserted wife, hllsfor-
tunc. has not improved her character, for she
makes all who approach her unhappy by her pce-
wish rcpinings attributing to hard fate what was
redlly the result of her own misconduct.