Smyrna times., 1874-11-11
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Finding Each Other Out.

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One of the experiences of married life,
through which most conjugal partners have to
pass, is thus referred to by Rev. II )bert Col
Yer
Some married folks find each other out, as |
have heard of mariners finding out the polar
world. They leave the shores of their single
life in the spring days, with tears and benedic-
tions, sail on awhile in sunshine and fair
weather, and then find their way little by little
into the cold latitudes, where they see the sun
sink day by day, aud feel the frost creep, until
they give up at last, and turn to ice sitting at
| the same table.
Others again find each other out as we have |
been finding out this continent They nestle |
down at first among the meadows close by the |
clear streams; then they 60 on through belt |
kOt shadow, lose their way, and find it again the
| best they know, and come out into larger
horizon and better land; they meet there
difficult hills, and climb them together; strike
deserts and dismal places, and cross them to-
gether; and so at last they stand on the further
reaches of the mountains, and see the other
ocean, summing itself, sweet and still, and then
their jouSneyings end. But through shadosw
and shine, this is the gospel for the day; they
keep together right on to tre end. They allow
no danger, disaster or difference to divide them
and no third person to interfere; for if they
do, it may be as if William and Mary, of
England, had permitted the great Louis to
divide their throne by first dividing their
hearts.
Did you ever hear my definition Of mar
rageH wise and witty man says: 1t re-
sembles pair of shears, so joined that they
cannot be separated; moving in opposite di-
rections, yet always Furnishing any one who
comes between them" The definition is as
witty as it is wise and he might have added,
part the shears aud then all you have lett is
two poor dsggers.
SO it is possible we may grow nged in find
ing each other out, and wondering why we
never saw that trait before, or struck that
temper; but if their be between us a true
heart, If the riCet h0LlS then the added years
will only bring added reasons for perfect
union and the sweet, old ballad will be our
psalm of life:
John Anderson, my 10, John,
We clamb the hill togither;
And many canty day, John,
We've had wi ane anither;
Now we maun toddle down, John.
But hand in hand we'el go,
And sleep tOgIther at the foot.
John Anderson, my 10.
We nut find each other out, and then it il
possible that, like my mother old shears, Ovel
which used to ponder when | Was child
one side is greater, and the other, by conse
Quencc, less
found James Mott delighted one evening
when | went 10 call on him, because, while h
was working in his garden, two men went by
and one said: That is James Mott" "AnC
who is James MOTIF" "Why, don't yol
know2 He is Lucretia Mott husband" Nov
James Mott was by no means q common man
with lesser half, he would have seemed
great man; and he was great in his steady an
perfect loyalty to truth and goodness-but hi
wife was the woman of a century, while h
was so noble and great of soul as to be gla
and proud of her greatness, and at the sam
time he seemed all the greater for his worship
feat, | notice, few men are able to accom-
plish
Audubon, our great naturalist married
good, sweet woman, and when she began {
find him out she found he would wander off
thousand miles in quest of bird. She sal
"Amen" and went with him, camped in tt
woods, lived in log huts and shanties on II
frontier, anywhere to be with him. She o.
tered into his enthusiasm, shared his labor
and counted all things but loss for the exec
ency of the glory of being Audubon's Wit
When the children began to come to them,
had to wander off alone, but he could not
into valley so deep or a wilderness so dista
that the light would not shine on him out
their windows. He knew exactly where
would find her, and how she would look,
awhile as Ruskin reminds us, the clouds a
never twice alike, the sunshine was alwa
familiar, aud it was sunshine he saw when
looked homeward. So, If you have read
notes, you will remember how his heart brea
forth into singing in all sorts of unexpect
times and places, as he thinks of the wife a
children waiting his return; and that W
they lived their life until they dropped into t
lap of God, like mellow fruit 1t was laid
the man to do this curious, wild work. II
the woman's heart yearnsd to have him no
we may we'll imagine, and how gladly she wor
have given up some of his greatness to kC
her children father at her side, but she
not tell him so, il she was the woman III
she was and so she is changed into the sa
image, from glory to glory Growing al
together in the body, they are touched now
the spirit of immortal youth.