The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-24


The MARRIAGE RELATION. The following sound, clear
and Christian views of the marriage relation taken
from popular work, entitled /" Mariyria, Legend, ;
published few years ago, from the pen OF gifted cer
gyman:
OF earthly relations, those OF husband and wife, pa
rent and child iend and neghbo, master and servant
constitute much the larger portion OF mans happiness
and are more Important. any OF them, than all others To-
gether. II is the observance the refinement, the strength
enng OF these commonest, these greatest. these primal
relations that happiness is increased, and not in the inor
dinate accumulation OF money, the acquisition OF empty
fame, or IN luxurious indulgences.
Happiness Is TO be attained in the accustomed chair
by the reside, than in The honorary occupation oil
civic Offices in wiies love, infinitely more than in the
favor OF all human beings else in chldrens innocent
and joyous praltle more than in the hearing OF hattery
in the reciprocaon Of little and frequent kiDdnesses be-
tween friend and friend, than in occasional
and dearybough lndulgeDce IN the virtue OF content
ment, more than in the anxious achievements OF wealth
distinctions and grandeur in change OF heart than
in change o! circumstances in full firm trust in Provi-
dence, more than in hoping for fortunes favor;
growing taste for the beauties Of Nature, than in
the eesimpe inheritance OF whole of land in the
observance OF nea,ness and regularity household virtues,
rather than IN The means OF ostentatioue and therefore
rare display; in a hand-maiiens cheerfuness, more
than in the improved tone OF politics. and in the friend
ship OF our nextdoor neghbor. more than in the condo
scendng notice OF my lord duke
Happiness, then, must be sought for simplicity,
and not in costlDess in the pepetually recurring,
than in the rare in abiding peace rather Than in tempo
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which sprngeth up into everlasting life, in source else
sedulousy in those fountains which are fed by the
never falling love of relatives and friends.
Again he says:
There some persons who have their imaginatons
excited by the possibility Of distant good as TO
lose all taste for the little delights which husband and
vile, master and servant parent and child, may devise
and TecprOcaie hourly, almost Which is the luckeT
mamie that can be happy in the smile OF his wife, be
that must watt wait, wait for the smile of fortune, and
wait in vain, perhaps
In this world there is nothing of such value as afec-
ton and the most lrng expression of il, thong
be but single word OF endearment, in the best
peasanler sound than that OF gold pieces
The price OF virtuous woman is far above rublee
Solomon says. Were there allotted TO any one female
figure of solid gold, companion for life who is there
but would beg that if might be OF silver only that il
might speak and then OF inferior metal still if it
might only feel and then that might be- like himself,
OF earth, it only accompany him about, And yet,
human inconsistency husbands be many OF them heed
less OF home joys not being increase of wealth.
Man is created 10 be living soul, and not be an
and the real want of his heart is sympathy,
affection, love- and not the philosophers stone II would
not be more unreasonable 10 transplant avore flower
OF black earth into goddust than il for person
TO let money getting harden his heart into contempt,
into impotence OF the lille attentions, the merriments,
and the caresses of domestic lfe.--Boston Journal