The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-07-19
Love Your Wives

NoIhIhS DflsntenS a true woman
IKE love. She will do ANYTHING
Dear anything, suffer ANYTHING
ior the sake OF a husband who
truly and tenderly loves her and
whose heart is one with hers,
Where such love ends, widowhood
begins. The woman who has a
husband who is not wholly hers.
mourns the loss of a champion.
and endures the presence of a
mummy. But where coniugal
fidelity and affection exist. power.
ty, prlvation and toll are welcom-
ed gladly for the Joy of love. But
THIS love must be more than mere
words; it must be in heart. and
lie, IN deed and truth. 1t must
be self-denying as well as selfde
string. Love beareth all things
and endureth all things, and never
taIleth. And when in her weak.
ness, WEAKNESS, and sorrow. a
woman can feel that she does
receive from her husband such a
self-denying love as this, when
his strength bears with her weak
ness, his patience with her pa
thence. and when his calm courage
soothes her rights and fears.
what gratitude swells up within
her heart. Woman seeks in a
husband truth, a nobleness, and
uprlghtness. She loves manliness
and spotless purity. fla man
Will show his manhood in his daily
life, he will find a 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 girl
hood when life itself was love.
Ihey often pass their womanhood
In anxious cares and wearying
labors. In the anguish of matern-
ity they enter into new spheres of
existence, whose only life is love.
Whether wOman's course is 10 be
sadness or joy, sunshine or gloom,
depends upon love. All her cares
are borne with patience of 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 a whole lifetime of care
and bless the day when she found
a husband with heart SO true
and hand so strong. An uneX-
pected favor touches her to the
soul. A gift in secret, an appre-
ciating word, plying, soothing
glance. kindly, sunny smile a
little self denial TO afford her
pleasure or spare her plan; all
these are Sunbeams of gladneSs to
the heBrt of the true and tOiling
wife. Her husband and her chill
dren 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 sick
ness or in health, is laid up as a
cherished memory, 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 blackness,
while your smile alone brings
! sunshine to the soul. One selfish
meanneSs in you, one little con
temptible 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 Faith
or, ''we love him because he first
loved u.s." 80 let husbands
love their wives, even as Christ
loved the church and gave him.
self for it," and that love shall
plant in her glad heart such seeds
of blessing and reverence as shall
cuase flowers radiant as those OF
Paradise and full of heavenly
fragrance, to bless and brighten
ali your journey in this Wilderness
,s sin an51 main.