Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-02-13
LOVE YOUR WIVES.

Husbands, love your wives. Nothing
brightens 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 be-
gins. The woman who has a husband
who is not wholly hers, mourns the loss
of a companion, and endures the pres
ence Of a mummy But where coYli,,-
gal fidelity and affection exists, 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. 1t
must endure as well as demand: 1t
must be self-denying as we'll as self-de-
string. Love beareth all things and en-
dureth all things, and never faileth.
And when in her weakness, WEAKNESS,
and sorrow, woman can feel that she
does receive from her husband such a
self-denying love as this, when his
strength bears with her weakness his
patience with her petulance, and when
his calm courage, sooths her rights and
fears, what gratitude wells up within
her heart
Woman seeks in h''s6 nd truth,
and nobleness, rand uprightness. !, She
loves .manliness and spotless purity.
And if,a man will show his manhood
in his daily life, he will find blessing
in his heart aud in his home such as
tongue cannot describe.
Wives need love. Their hearts vearn
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 sad
ness or joy, sunshine or gloom, depends
upon love. All her cares are borne
with patience iflove 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 con-
tiict, and bless the day when she foui.d
husband with heart so true a hand
so strong. An unexpected favor touch
cs her to the soul a gift in secret, an
approaching word, plying, soothing
glance, q kindly, sunny smile, a little
selfdenial to afford her pleasure Oh spare
her pain, all these are sunbeams OF glad
ness to the heart of the true and toiling
wife. Nj
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, kindness which she cannot
forget, and which she is only too hap
Ply to repay.
Husbands, love your wives. A harsh
word from you is worse than poisoned
arrow from an outside foe. Your sheer
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 own 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 loved us"
$50 let husbands love their wives, even
as Christ loved the Church and gave
himself for it, and that love shall plant
in her glad he ,rt such seeds of blessing
and reverence as shall cause flowers "a
diant as those Of paradise and full of
fragrance, to bless and brighten all your
journey in this wilderness Of sin and
pain.