Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-02-04
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 a.husband who truly and ten
dery loves her, and whose heart is one with
hers. Where such love ends. widowhooi
hegins. The woman who has husband who
is not wholly hers, mourns the loss of com.
panion. and endures the presence of mummy
But where conjugal fidelity and effection exist.
poverty, privasiou, 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 well as demand. It must be self
denying as we'll as self>desiring. Love
beareth all things aud endureth all things.
and never faileth.
And when in her weakness. weariness. and
sorrow. woman can feel that she does receive
from her husband such self.denying love as
this. when his strength bears with her weak>
ness his patience with her petulapce, and
when his calm courage, sooths hor friehts
and fears, what gratitude wells up within her
heart i""
Woman seeks in husband truth, and no.
bleness, aud uprightness. She loves manli-
ness and spotle>s purity. And if man
will show his manhood in his daily life. he
will find n blessing in his heart and in his
home snch as tongue can not describe
Wives need love. Their hearts yearn for,
it as much as in the days of girlbood when life
itself was love. They often pass their woman
hood in anxions cares and wearing labors. In
the anguish IF maternity they enter into new
snheres ,0f existence. whose only lite is love
Whether womah's course is to be sadness or
joy. sunshine or gloom, depends upon love-,
All her cares ere borne with patience if love
sweotens her bitter cup. A long hard, weary
day of toll ia amply paid for with single
smile; and one tender, loving clasp makes
her forget a whole life>time of care and con
fIct, and bless the day she found husband
with heart so true and hand so stropg An
unexpected favor touches her to the soul A
gift IN secret, an approaching word, plying
soothing glauce.n kindly. sunny smile, little
seli-den'ai to afford her pleasure or spare her
pain, NIL these are sunbeams of gaduess to
the heart of the true and toiling wife.
Her husband and her children are her trca
snres. She lives if they stand fast She is
proud of their honor and joyous in their pros.
perity.. And every token of their care and
love for, her in sickness or in health, is laid
up as a cherished memory. n Kindness which
she cannot forget, and which she is only too
happy to repay.
Husbands, love your wives a harsh word
from you is worse than a poisoned arrow from
an outside foe. Your sneer turns life to bane
and backness, 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 hegrt that reverence We
reverence the heavenly Father. ..we love, him
because he first ioccd us" $50 let husbands
love their wives. even ss Christ loved the
Church and gave himself for it," and that
love shall plant in her glad heart such seeds
Of blessing and reverence as shall cause flow
ers radiant as' those of paradise and full Of
heavenly fragrance, TO bless and brighten all
your journey in this wilderness Of sin and
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