Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-06-11

h ksp he young His lowering on
~ ads Of uso grave, untn tie last
Aseting breath leaves ths aged ana
asswom body does TIE iaaasble
sweetness Of Love exercise . most
potsat inhnsncs u OurHveS.
We DO not speak now Of sexual
love but Of Ehat wonderfully re.
fined sFmpsihsilc essence which
obtains no drOss from human adj
mixture but which etherealized by
hssVsnly inaaenCes never asks but
Is ever ready to gfue until that
power becomes exhausted by the
utter humiliation Of the physical
medium through which this love
manifests itself
The love Of mother, father, of
sister, and especially of wife, in
mans Life is 9 magnet around which
be revOlves in q regular orbit being
gradually drawn inward and up
ward becoming stronger, better
and happier BY its sweet and puri.
Tying influences until the grand sue
cess Of his LIE iS achieved, whatever
that sneceas may be,and even though
. humble one yet in his life II iSthe
grand success and DO feels that the
power which kept him true to his
pro-ordained mission was love, un-
ssllah faithful, devoted love, which
like charity @snasreth long and Is
kind ; ehvleth not; vauntelh moi
sitsalE 10 not pulled up, >
beaFsth I'd things, believeth al
things, endureth all things"
Physically and mentally man Il
strong but morally he is weak,
With woman this is the reverse
and she b. the strength Of hel
moral natnrs, prompted by hel
love, exercises 9 saving power
over mans lie; and somehow Il
has always been our thought that
God himself exerts this great
moral influence upon man through
the tenderness and devotion oil
woman. The parental, flial and
family relations have exhibited the
effects Of love upon the life and
character, but with ell these grand
instances Of devotion the belief
clings to us that the saving love Of
. wife 10 more abounding In good
fruits than that even Of mother or
Of sister. The love Of both has been
rightly enlogiEed in poetry and
song, and 3 mothers Lore has
abided TIL death in spite of
the COMMUNICATIONS Of vice and
sin. But the love Of the
wife is an ever present, active,
practical power, constantly and
faithfully sxerting itself upon the
husbands Life, encouraging into
blossom and fruit his good but fee
bic purposes, and shrivelling to
naught his errors and sices. Thus,
like the sun, the true wife's love
boams upon the husbands exist.
ence, and penetrating every nook
and corner Of his heart, is, in the
moulding and falhiOning, that
which proves his life a allure or q
success. Man cannot be truly said
TO live until he lisa husband 9th
srwise existence retolves itselfinto
his own personal being, a life erea-
i've Otselashnsss and egotism, and
calculated to dwarf the physical,
intellectual, social, and moral man
hood.
Man instinctively recognizes this,
and seeks for cOmpanionship in
marriage that one whom lie
thinks or hopes is best calculated
TO draw out and develope all the
higher qualities Of his nature. God
help him If he fails in choosing
The love Of q true woman can ele.
Vate man to his highest capacity ;
the want Of this love may effect
HE complete degradation and ruin.
The ScOrn and cOntumely of fall
ure has been heaped upon many
who only lacked the slevating and
purifying influences of love to make
their lives q success.
Lacking this saving love and its
eonsequent and inevitable iuf1-
spces, he whose being is awake
with noble and generous impulses
fAils to keep that regular moral
orbit proper 70 him, but unfor.
t~uuataly, free from the magnetic
influences which would keep him
true to his course, and assailed by
succeeding temptations which know
40 cOunteracting power, he flies of
d Z tangent shoots athwaFt the
Skiea perhaps like some brilliant
meteor and sinks forever in failure
and dlagrsce. That man whose
sole aim md object is SELF needs
no magnetic loga to keep him