Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-02-12

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fond and sensitive heart enWFapped
tho halo Of ils sweetest aiec lions
about you and, subdued by tLs
power Of that influence, became
your Wiie-leaVing home, friends
ali for your Do you love her,
because she has borne with your
petulanoe, and neglect - because
she has shrunk beneath your
thoughtless harshness--because she
has. secretly mourned over your
faults, and wept many bitter tears
iualhe chambers Of her heart?
Do you love her, because she has
sacrificed so much for you? Do
you love her, because she has borne
so much for you, more than you
can ever know? Do you love her,
because she has subdued her ma
ture, and buried her own personal.
ity in yours, immOlaling herself,
as Il were, upon the domes-
tic altar with q spirit Of self.ab-
negation that would honor the
fame of earth's noblc.t martyrs
do you love her for thisI Do you
love her for that she has vountari-
Il ly rendered to you homage as her
lord and master in the flesh, taken
upon herself the burden of your
tasks, engulled herself in the bitter
waters Of your sorrows, become
an alder, helper, guide and shield !?
And all for what? A smile, 0
kind word, thoughtful action, and
perhaps, on her grave, a tear! Is
there not enough in all this, to make
YOU love her, besides that she is
your wife, besides that grossncss OF
human passion, besides that she is
your children's mother, besides the
manliness OF " mans chivalry
Wives fail in duty, fail in love, fail
In character, but who Of Carth's &c.
MUS have ever fully told The bal
ancc between her faults, and the
immeasurably proud surplus of her
virtues? Partaking of the angelic
in character, because OF the sweet
ness of her love, the purity of her
motives and the solf-abnegatiOn Of
her spirit, She Is judged by the
standard ofhumanity.
Born to loltier sphere of great
er suffering than man aud ovincing
an early developed prococity In
the womau.child that cxtOrts the
involuntary reverence OF the cl.
ders of her sexs antithcsis, she
looks forward early in life TO wife
hood rs the csowniug glory Of a
| true woman's ambition. II there
was no other claim upon the hus.
bands love the wife incxpressibly
merits It when she IS ANOTHER.
How uuuttenbly grand Is the
character Of that deyotednCss
which tho wife shows, whether she
! be conscious or unconscious there
Of when she bow, - the de- tiny
other being aud forgetting self, pa
tlently enduring weeks and
months of anxiety and suffering,
undergoing the extremity of pain
/, and exhaustion, she, the instru,
mcnt OF God for the propagation Of
"Ilis own Image" adds to the world
} life, and 10 her duties another
burden, another care, another love
= Aud the immolaton OF her per
r sOnality Vi which We spoke, wha
. is II? Ii is the holocaust OF be
, girlish friendships, fancies ant
hopes; il Is the loss OF her very
name; it I, the watchiu!ness thai
catches the changeful mood OF hel
husband and seeks to adapt hcrsel
to his hum0r; Il IS the almost blind
submission to bis will; il is TO bC
the creature Of his convenience il
> is TO laugh When he laughs, weel
when lac weeps, fairly yearn to share
his burdens, and cxultingly unite ia
: his songs Of triumph. Aud the
t husband, hOw does he repay. heI
! this deyotedness, this laithfulness
this love : Too often, not at all
Too often her only reward Is d
secret self consciousness of duty
performed. and many wives are 50
accustomed TO this neglect that az
occasional exhibition of the reverse
Of 1t cxcites almost equally feelings
OF graiified pride and Of apprchcn.
SION.
How many husbands SO love
their wives that they seek to place
them in sGch positions in life as
they may be most comfortable and
happy in? How many husbands
so love them that, as tar rs may be,
they endcayor to free their wives
from the clogs upon their nature
and stimulate its poetic sentiment
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