Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-06-10

Sermon No. III.

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Sermon No. iii.
AN ORIGINAL POEM, WRITTEN BY "HALo," AND RE-
sPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO ALL MARRIED LADIES TO
| WHOM 1T Is APPLICABLE. "a
wish were girl again,
/ This aching heart, once my own
This precious jewel, I'd retain,
| Nov think that were cen 70 blame
| Should refuse, forever spurrE
| The hand Of man.
But o! I'm bound in bridal chains;
/ My youth, my happiness is gone;
/ My life is covered DER with stains;
| By breathing after others gailD
That fortune has on them bestowed,
| Ine'er can win
Why am lost? o cursed fate!
Why waste my thoughts on des@t air!
Why should what have so hate,s4
| And dream Of LoUe at night so late,
I That midnight stars upon me stare,
| Like ghosts in moonlight?
"Dive, dive thoughts, down into my SOUL"
And search and see if nought remains,
| Where passions madly, wildly roll
| Over my once-caln, peaceisfs ssasil- .-'---..
or maiden joys to soothe my brains,
Crazed with thinking. e
But stop! methinks there is rock; ~
| For ages it has never moved;
| OF storms and winds withstood the shock,
! To shelter all who'd to it flock,
| The righteous have this savior found
| balm for every ILL
You will rise and sing to the tune of Old
Hundred, if this tune will answer; if not,
choose one that will, for am no Judge of mu-
sic and have only selected this tune as coming
the nearest, numerically, to the number who
ought to sing. l think, however, the tune
Old Thousand would be more appropriate,
could such an one be found in the books.
What contrast! Last week when gave
nf fba 81 a. %
| but now large and respectable number have
filed the church with the sweetest music
that ever cheered or gladdened the poor
heart of mortal man.
My remarks this day, will be based on the
following text, which you will find recorded
some where in the good book; if not the
words themselves, their import can be found
| from Genesis to Revelations, in almost every
chapter of the Bible:
| "He that gets good wife, gets good thing"
| Ny Sisters Domestic wars, tumults and
connections have disturbed the peace and
harmony of large majority of families from
the days OF Adam, the first, until the pres
ent time, ana ever will, so long as the sun
rises in light and sets in darkness.
| When you were first married, the sun of
your domestic happiness arose and shone
upon your little domestic circle with the
mellow light of morning. But then you
committed the fatal error Of not command
ing the sun to stand still until you had
| transplanted those sweet and beautiful
flowers of your affections in the rich soil of
your husbands heart.
You have forgot that your husband was
your lord; that his interest was your inter-
est; that his thoughts should havo been
your thoughts; and that you should culti-
vate no wish nor desire that would bring a
dark cloud over his countenance, or disturb
his equanimity of mind and temper. sYou
soon commenced finding fault with him for
late of nights: and, finally, accused him of
growing cold in his affections for you.
You soon forgot that ssloye of man. life is
thing, part; but 'tiswoman's whole exis-
tence;" that the pride of mans life is his
ambition; he desires to become Rich, and
attain some high and honorable position in
life; that the sphere in which his Almighty
Creator designed him to move and act is as
much above yours as the most lofty peak of
the Andes is above the lowly valley tha.
humbly lies at its feet.
j You never learned the duties of good
wife, and, therefore, never discharged them
To these things you may trace all your un-
happiness.
Had you discharged all these duties, as we'll
as those enumerated in last weeks sermon,
youne would have had reason fol suspect
ing your husband of growing cold, becoming
distant, and loosing his interest in your
welfare. When he came home to you, after
ending his lab ors.. for the day, after having
toiled long and late, all for your good, instead
of finding your face lit up with smiles and
being greeted with an affectionate kiss, he
found you off spinning street yarn sweav-
ing scandal about the manner in which he
treated you, and listening to the silly prat-
,, tie Of cunning and designing men about the
next "hen' convention, to be held at some
convenient place, for all sorts Of wickedness
and deyilment, to be carried on behind the
curtain that rises not, but falls in disgrace
men," Mark the phraseology mem
like the plastic wax in your soft hand ant
can, by you, be moulded into whatever i'm
.. ages you will, if so you employ the skill th'
;, Almighty has given you in the manner ant
way he has designed
My sisters, "Halo" is in the possession O
ssa good thing" for he has ssgood wife;
!, who stays at home, and never nike
= with silly persons who tattle and scandal
: ize their neighbors. She believes in tn
! , supreme right of o woman to do as her hus
! band desires to have her do, and, therefore
is contented and happy. Now, in conclu
clusion, would say, if you would hav
!, your husband possessed of "a good thing,
ssGo thou and do likewise''--ever remem
9 bering that good wife swiil obey her hus
!, band in the Lord" live virtuous, piou
J, life, giving her heart to God, her judge
: and her best affections to her husband.
: HALO.
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