Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-08-16
Strength OF womsn's Love.

The Rev. Mr.. C., at the South, recently clio.
sed sermon with the following touching mar
ration
A young gentleman of high respectability, Ia.
lents, fortune and family, married the beautiful,
the lovely and accomplished daughter Of
She was the daughter of wealthy merchant in
one of our Northern cities; with their united
fortunes they commenced a career of life, with
the brightest hopes and fairest prospects of un-
disturbed happiness and prosperity, that the
most sanguine or ambitious could wish or de-
sire. She was lady of fashionable distinction
in society, the pride and ambition ofal who ell
joyed the entree of her gay and hosptabe man.
sion. and the idol of Il young and afectionate
husbands heart. Her wants, her wishes and
desires we're all anticipated by that peculiar dis.
ccrnment, which always q ffords so much delight,
and brings with it those unspeakable evidences
of husbands love that wife alone can under
stand and appreciate.
Thus they lived on, for few bright years of
happy existence. But alas such is the versa.
tilny of fortune, such the uncertainty of human
rounded with all the splendid glitter Of prosper
ity, are by some casual occurrence, some unex-
pected event, plunged from this splendid pima
Gle of prosperity, to the abyss OF adversity-
They saw not, averted not the dark cloud, C.
merged above the bright horizon that had hith.
er,o encircled their dreamy existence, but soon
obscured the brlliancy of their prospects, and
discharged its banctu contents upon their devo-
ted heads and threw them upon cold and heart.
less world, without farthng TO support them
The husband unable TO counteract this incon-
sstency of iorlune by becoming forti,ude, gave
himself up to the grossest ntempcrance, and
subsequent neglect and abuse Of his lovely wife
and family. But she, like woman yea, like
an angel as she is, scared above it all.
After an absence of some days, his wife not
krowng where he was, he returned home, in
the wretched and disgusting condition to which
drunkenness had reduced him, his locks matted
with filth and sticking closely to his forehead,
and his breath sinking with the fntid exhala,
tons of brandy. In this frightfu condition of
human degradation, saturated with liquor, he
entered the now obscure residence of his wife,
who met him with all those feelings of abiding
affection, which in a woman's heart knows no
change but the once fond husband now trans
formed to n beast returned her cordial rccep.
ton with the coarsest abuse, end at last struck
her to the floor She, after recovering herself
from the blow, arose, her husband standing
near her she rushed into his arms, eXca inning,
"Charcs Charles what are you doing - and
turning from his brow the matted locks which
once clustered in beautiful curls upon his man
ly forehead, she imprinted upon it on affection
ate and endearng kiss. and with the soft and
tender look Of love, from eyes streaming with
tears, upon his haggard features, again excla.
med, "Oh, Charles, how can you strike your
once dear Mary!' lie instantly, as if struck
himself by some superhuman force, echoed back
the beloved name--"Mary Mary ! what have
] done 2" He fell upon his knees. mporing
forgiveness, and from that moment became a
reformed man, devoted husband and is now
an ornament to society.