Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-08-07
Love Y0Hr wives.

Husbands, love your wives. Moth
ing brightens true woman like love.
She will do anything, bear anything
suffer anything, for The sake oil
husband who truly and tenderiy
loves her, and whose heart is one
with hers. Where such love ends,
widoghood begins. The woman who
has a husband who is not wholly
hers, mourns the loss of q champion,
and endures Gle presence of mum,
my. Bat where conJugal fidelity and,
affection exist, poverty, prlvation and
toll are welcomed gladly for the Joy
of love. But this love must De more
than mere words; it must be IN
heart, and life, in deed and truth. 1t
must be self.denying as well as sell
desiring. Love beareth all things,
and endureth all things, and never
faileth. And when in her Weakness
WEAKNESS, and sorrow, woman can
feel that she does receive from her
husband such selt-denying love as
this, when his strength bears with
her weakness, his patience with her
patience, and when his calm courage
soothes her frights and fears, what
gratitude swells up within her heart.
Woman seeks in a husband truth,
nobleness, and urrightness. She loves
manliness and spotless purity. If
man will show his manhood IN his
daily life, he will find blessing IN
his heart and sin his home such as
tongue cannot describe.
Wives need love. Their hearts
vearn for it as much as in the days
of gillhood when life itself was love.
They often pass their womanhood in
anxious cares and wearying 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 sadness or
Joy, sunshine or gloom, depends upon
love. III her cares are borne. with
patience if love sweetens her bitter
cup. A long, hard, weary, day of
toll is amply paid for with Il single
smile, and one tender, loving clasp
makes her forget whole lifetime of
care and bless the day when she
found a husband with heart SO true
and a hand so strong. An unexpect-
I'd favor touches her to the soul. A
gift in secret, an appreciating word,
/. sunny smile, little self denial to
lford her pleasure Or spare her pain;
Ill these are sunbeams Of gladuess 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
aid up as a cherished memory, a
kindness which she cannot forget.
and which she is only too happy 20
repay.
Husbands, hve your wives. A
harsh word from you is worse than a
poisoned arrow from an outside Zoe.
Your sneer turns life to bane and
blackness, while your smile alone
brings sunshine to the 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 rev
erence her husband, but your love
must beget that reverence. We rev.
erence the Heavenly Father, we
iove him because he first loved us.
= So let HUSBAND; love their wires,
even as Christ loved tie church and
gave himself tor it, and that love
Shall plant in her glad heart such
seeds Of blessing and reSerence as
shall cause flowers radiant us those
Of Paradise and full of heavenly ira
GRANGE, to bless and brighten all
your Journey in this wilderness of
sin and pam.