The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-14
Love Your Wives.

do anything, bear anything, suf-
fer anything for the sake of
husband who truly and tender
ly 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 a companion, and en-
dures the presence of a mummy.
But where conjugal fidelity and
affection exists, poverty, priva-
tion, 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 we'll as demand.
1t must be self denying as well
as self-desiring. Love beareth
all things and endureth all
things, and never faileth.
When in her weakness, wear
mess, and sorrow, a woman can
feel that she does receive from
her husband such a self-deny-
ing love as this, when his
strength bears with her weak
ness, his patience with her petu-
lence, and when his calm cour-
age sooths her frights and fears,
what gratitude wells up within
her heart.
Woman seeks in a husband
truth, and nobleness, and up
rightness. She loves manliness
and spotless purity. And if a
man will show his manhood in
his daily life, he will find a
blessing in his heart and in his
home, such as tongue can can
not 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 an
guish of maternity they enter
into new spheres of existence,
whose only light is love.
Whether woman's course is to
be sadness or joy, sunshine or
gloom, depends upon love. All
her cares are borne with pa
tience if love sweetens her bit
ter cup: A long, hard, weary
day of toll is amply paid for with
single smile; and one tender,
loving clasp makes her forget a
whole lifetime of care and con-
flict, and bless the day she found
a husband with a heart so true
and a hand so strong. An unex-
pected favor touches her to the
soul, A gift in secret, an appre-
ciating word, a plying, soothing
glance, a kindly, sunny smile,a
little selEdenial to afford her
pleasure or spare her pain, all
these are as sun-beams of glad
ness to the heart of the true and
nd toiling wife.
Her husband and her children
are her treasurers. She lives il
they stand fast. She is proud Of
their honor and joyous in theil
prosperity. And every token
of their care and love for her,in
sickness or in health, is laid up
as q cherished memory, a kind.
ness which she can not 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 blackness, while your smile
alone brings sunshine to hel
soul. One selfish meanness in
you, one little contemplate
thing, robs you of your crown
of honor, and leaves her to be.
wall her loss.
The wife must reverence hel
husband; but your love must be.
get that reverence. We rever.
ence the heavenly Father, eve
love him because he first IOueO
u.s." $50 let husbands love
their wives, even as Christloves
the Church and gave him
self for it" and that love shall
plant in her glad heart such
seeds of blessing and of rever-
ence as shall cause flowers radi-
ant as those of paradise, and
full of heavenly fragrance, to
bless and brighten all your
Journey in this wilderness of sin