Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-08-22


somewhere on its surface a ripple appears
aud no married life but has here and there
moments Of disagreement. Two human be.
ings who have not yet become perfect, can
not be perpeiually together without some
times thinking differ emily aud willing in OPP
position 10 one another. | know thai there
are here aud there q husband and wife who
are conscious of no such opposition, who can
look over possibly years Of uninterrupted
communirgs and undivided purposes, ana
who might easily suppose that il is because
they eyermore are the same in thought and
purpose. But, take il, il is rather that inn
PEELED by a mutual affection and a Keen
sighted wisdom, they have unconscously
learned 70 allow nothing for moment 10
stand between their hearts. To accomplish
this, husband and wife must guard against
the beginning OF arrangements. The last
ing alterations, the separations, the divorces
do not spriag at once out Of some great
violation of conjueal duty, but are the per-
teced fruit Of little arrangements. A word
or even look sometimes, like small break
in dyke, becomes vast crevasse through
which pours flood Of unhappiness. Nay,
it may be positive nothing, only neglect
which may lie the foundation. stone Of I'M
told misery. 1t is noticed and felt, but pride
iorbids any explanation or any questioning.
Each notices the others GOODNESS, but neiih-
er can come TO the point Of asking what is
in the way. Meanwhile the peaceful con-
seriousness of mutual agreement is broken
up and each is unhappy, and, | may add,
each conscious of wrong. In this state of
mind, new offense is easily given and more
easily taken, and the breach is wider and
wider. The process may go on till wife or
husband, perhaps both, begin to seek in the
society of others, what they have lost in
their own, and, at last, embarked on a
troubled and rapid stream, in some dark
hour they are hurried into crime and are
lost to each other forever.
"a something light as ARA look,
A word unkind or wrongly taken
Oh! love, that tempests never shook,
A breath, touch like this has shaken,
And ruder winds will soon rush in
To spread the breach that words begin;
And eyes forget the gentle ray
They wore in courtship's smiling day /;
And voices lose the tone that shed
A tenderness round all they said
Till fast declining, one by one $
The sweetnesses of love are gone,
And hearts, so lately mingled, seem
Like broken clouds---or like the stream
That smiling left the mountains brow,
As though its waters ne'er could sever,
Yet ere it reached the plain below,
Breaks into floods and parts forever"
/ may speak TO some who understand me
fully, and have known too many days of
misery not to appreciate what l say. III
you are conscious, and as soof as you are
conscious that there is anything of aliena-
ion or enlargement, Use not an hour be-
ore you seek reunion Of your hearts. If
tells you that you have been in
The wrong, do not be too proud to aeknow-
ledge it if you are sure that you have been
or unjustly treated, do not stand
on your dignity or sense of justice, but be
the first to seek reconciliation. Let the
Of love move you. You will
find perhaps another heart reaching out aft
er yours in the dark, and it will not be long
before you both are walking side by side,
and hand in hand.---Hev. W. Aikman.