Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-04-12
A Help. Meet for Man.

Inc latest story of defalcatiOn sv a
trusted bank officer has a sequel as full
OF beauty as IT. is of sadness The deyo
tlon OF the stricken wife who accompanied
her erring husband to the police-station
and thence to the Jail, and ministered to
him, unmindful of gaping crowds and
needless of publicity from which her
whole soul must have shrunk had her DUR
pose been less strong than it was, is
tnlng which we cannot too reverently re-
gard. we easily understand the brute
aHectlon winch sometimes prompt good
women to cling without reason TO debased
men: We can account for the unreason-
ing faith with which wives and mothers
refuse sometimes to believe, even upon
the most positive evidence, in the guilt of
sons or husbands whom they have be-
lleYed to be innocent, and men do honor
| 10 devotion OF these sorts Here, howev-
er, is higher manifestation of pure wo-
manly affection. This good woman he.
lleVes her husband TO be guilty; the evi-
dence carries conviction to her mind she
IS not blinded to the facts by her love. and
sae recognizes the enormity of the mans
oIiense IN the fullest measure; but she
ciings 70 hlm stlll-not blindlv, as dog
1olloWs his master, but devotedIy, as only
woman can whose affection carries with
her errlng husband, not for him. She has
sought to save him from sin, not frnmLtbe
consequences of sin. She bears his bur-
cen and shares his public disgrace, not to
secure his escape from punishment or to : Z
save herself from suffering, but to induce
him to undo the wrong he has done. She
has entreated him to restore to th. mon i
from whom he took it the. undiscovered
remainder of the money taken, to make
the, fullest 1reparatjon possible, not that :.
MS punishment might be made lighter. se7
but that his guilt might be less. Could
anything in the way Of human action be
srander, nobler, more sublimely beauti
fI than this stricken woman's course has
been? Ht4 81 = I-l@
1t is not good for man to be alone
These words of the Maker of man have
a deeper sense than that which selfish
men commonly give to them 1t was not f.
% comfort man merely that Gods last and
best gift was given, but to make him bet.
.er than he could have been without If. If
s not good for man to be alone-because =.
The man tends to evil; because he needs
ne restraining, the purifying, the emo
'nng influence OF woman's purer nature
Keep MIN from becoming worse every
lay. Livery suchrevelaticn as that which
uggeSts this paragraph serves to hint e
omething of the debt which society owes
D wives and mothers not less devoted 2
IAN this one is, whose influence restrain,
len from evil as this ones influence is
ut forth to make the erring man repent
nd atone for evil done. We shall never
now how large this debt is; we shall
ever know how many upright men have -
cen kept upright by the silent force of
le righteousness of soul which they have
nown in. wife or sister or mother LET .bl
reVerentiy honor the woman who in -
re afhlct1on has given Us a glimpse of
e page upon whichlti1e account is writ s7e
q, blotted with how many bitter tears
ly the God who gave man this helm
eet for him can know.-N. r. Eceain0
1st.
Brigham Young has lost his legs, and
3 10 he whealnd around In, -, ao,xr