The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-14
Love Your Wives.

Husbands, love your wives. Nothing
| brightens a true woman's life like love.
| She will do anything, bear anything,
| suffer anything for the sake of hus-
band who truly and tenderly loves her,
| and whose heart is one with hers. Where
such love ends, widowhood begins. The
woman who has husband who is not
wholly hers, mourns the loss of COM
panion, and endures the presence of a
mummy. But where congugal fidelity
exist, poverty, privation, and toll, are
welcomed gladly for the JOY of love-
But this love must be more than mere
words; it must be in heart, and life, in
deed and truth. It must endure as we'll
as demand. 1t must be self-denying as
things and endureth all things, and
never faileth.
And when in her weakness, WEAKNESS,
and sorrow, a woman can feel that she
does receive from her husband such q
self-denying love as this, when his
strength bears with her weakness, his
patience with her petulence, and when
his calm courage, sooths her fears,
what gratitude wells up within her
heart!
Woman seeks in a husband, truth,
and nobleness, and uprightness. She
loves manliness and spotless purity. And
if man will show his manhood in his
daily life, he will find blessing in his
heart and in his home such as tongue
cannot describe.
Wives need love. Their hearts yearn
for it as much as in the days of girlhood
when life itself was love. They often
pass their womanhood in anxious cares
and wearing labors. In the anguish of
maternity they enter into new spheres
of existence, whose only life is love-
Whether woman's course is to be in sad
ness or Joy, sunshine or gloom, depends
upon love. All the cares are borne
with patience If love sweetens her bitter
cup A long, hard, weary day of toll
is amply paid for with single smile;
and one tender, loving clasp makes her
forget whole lifetime of care and
conflict, and bless the day she found q
husband with heart so true and hand
so strong an unexpected favor touches
her to the soul A gift in secret, an ap-
preciating word, a pitying, soothing
glance, a kindly, sunny smile, little
self-denial to afford her pleasure or
spare her pain, all these are as sunbeams
of gladness to the heart of the true and
toiling wife.
Her husband and her children are
her treasures. She lives if they stand
fast She is proud of their honor and
joyous in their prosperity. And every
token of their care and love for her in
sickness or in health, is laid up as a
cherished memory, a kindness which
she cannot forget, aud which she is only
too happy to repay.
Husbands, love your wives. A harsh
word from you is worse than poisoned
arrow from an outside foe. Your sneer
turns life to bane and blackness, while
your smile alone brings sunshine to her
soul. One selfish meanness in you,
one little contemplate thing, robs
you of your crown of honor, and leaves
her to bewail her loss
The wife must reverence her husband !;
but your love must beget that reverence.
We reverence the heavenly Father, "we
love him because he first loued us. =" So
let husbands love their wives, even as
Christ loved the Church and gave HIM
self for il" and that love shall plant in
her glad heart such seeds of blessing
and reverence as shall cause flowers
radiant as those of paradise, and full
of heavenly fragrance, to brighten all
your journey in this wilderness of sin
and pain.