The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-08-29
The Bright Side of Married Life

Yes thank God-there Is bright
side to married life. When two hearts
are blended in love, and forbearance
when mind responds to mind, spirit to
spirit; when hand in hand the greater
holding fast the smaller, the physically
weaker, by gentleness and womenly
common sense, guiding the stronger
and more wsyward spirit. thro' the in
tricate paths of daily life when the
husband, from the hour in which he
rejoices in the possession of a wife, new
er fails to honor his choice, by all those
little acts of kindnesses, those volun-
tary attentions, SO endearing to wom-
ans nature, so necessary to her daily
happiness when the husband never
forgets to be true to his manhood and
true to the being who has risked her all
of earthly bliss, by placing her trust
in ham and-when the wife from her
bridal hour, realizes, that she lives no
longer for self or selfish aims, pursuits
or pleasures, but that, thence-forth,
her every effort in life must be for the
glory and happiness of her choice !;
then-bright, joyous, and beautiful, is
the little heaven, began on earth, by
the two whom God hath joined to-
gether.
There as bright side to married
life; there is q union of the heaven
born nature; there is reality in the
daily continuous love, that knits to-
gether the souls of the truly married,
that no dream of the imagination, no
highly colored romance, ever attained.
There is a chastned, holy love, ripe
ened confidence, an indiscribable fell
Getty, an intensity of affection, that
poet, nor novelist can ever portray
there is love Interchangeable, a union
of hearts, that no crosses, no infrm-
tiles, no toll, no poverty, can ever i'm
pair; a union that strengthens, that
eternity shall seal. Blessed, thrice
blessed, are they, who have entered
this union.
There is no place like home !;
nothing more pleasant, than a well
ordered household; no friendship,
that can at all compare with hus-
bands love, when founded upon es-
TEEN naught that exceed the devo-
ton, and self sacrifice of true, 10y
ing wife no earthly tie like that of
parent to child. See the helpless, in
nocent babe its dimpled hands its
velvety cheeks its look of Lowell! its
clasp of endearment is it not allied
to the angles above ? Are not the
little souls, that gambol about the
lawn, whose voices fill the air with
peals OF merry laughter and shouts of
gladness, are they not heirs of Christ's
Kingdom, lambs of His flock, connect
ing links, between the earthly, aud and
the heavenly-true, with each little
one comes corresponding cares and
but if the husband remain
the same tender and kind protector,
and sharer of all the mothers trials; if
on him she can lean, ia hours of weak
uess if to him she can trustingly con-
fide her little annoyances, and if from
him come soothing words of sympathy,
OF encouragement, of praise, of con-
tinued love, then is every bitter
sweetened, then is the dark side brigh-
tined; and if, as years roll by, their
faith in each other remaines undimed,
their love purified but mistaken, if
their little ones rise up in honor, aud
call them blessed then joyously bright
will have been their married life, and
bright win be their decent into the
valley of the shadow of death, and glo,
re .
riously bright will be their entrance
into the presence of that Infinite Wis
dom and Love, that alone can rightly
direct our steps, through all our mar
ried life.