Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-27
Home Happiness.

How can we make the world we live in
better Now, suppose, husbands you do
find in your hearts the desire to make your
wives happy-you haven't thought of it
lately, perhaps-but as you come to think
of it, you find this desire is in your bosom
and wives, thinking of the matter, find they
have really become a little slack in this duty
towards their husbands; that while they
have been doing the ordinary duties of do
mestic life so that their husbands have no
right to complain, and hope they do not
complain yet you find that the sweetness,
the fragrance of love that used to come out
of you has been lacking in the rooms where
your home is s;--you find you have been de-
clining in this, and if you should continue
to declire year in and year out, for the next
few years, you can see there will be an essen
tial GOODNESS between you and your partner.
Now, mothers, take your children. know
mothers are subject to cares, and are being
daily worn out in their nerves, and having
their minds and spirits Jared and rasped
and fretted and are subject to vexations
that almost uncontrollably affect their be-
havior. Now, is it not possible, mothers,
that in your treatment of the children you
can find room for improvement ? | think
hear You say, Yes did speak to my girl
to-day in way that did no good. | re-
member my mother once spoke to me in
that way, and it did me no good, and am
quite certain it did my girl no good" ayes;
did snap up John little more quickly
than suave, kind, wise, tender mother
would speak to her boy, who has the vigor
of his father in him, and particularly the
vigor of his fathers temper Well, now
suppose, say, we find this latent, lightly
covered up and crushed by recent neglect,
but still strong desire TO make father and
mother happy, to make husband happy,
and wife happy, to make sons and daugh-
ters happy, aud neighbors happy, and broth
ers and sisters and church happy, how shall
we do it ?
Now, it is great sin that a man with a
good appetite and who sleeps well should be
cross. 1t is, really. A man who is dis
eased, be charitable towards a man who is
suffering from infrmities, bear with his
weakness there is where your Christian
grace and patience come in. But all of us
people who are strong and robust, who eat
our meals regularly and sleep soundly, ought
to be courteous, suave, polite, kind, pleasant
spoken men and women one to another.
Now, gentlemen, where do you do the
most good Down town. Not at all. In
the meeting In the carr In the street
Not at all. You do most good at home.
| Where do women do the most good They,
too, do the most good of their lives at home.
And what is home : Is is not cheerfulness
and good nature, seeking hundred differ
ent ways of expressing itself ? What is a
prayer at home, delivered from the mouth
of a man who is snappy and cross Now
| these are the tragedies of life or religious
life. The man who is surly-and very
likely such man, If he is religious pro
fessor, will be dreadfully regular at his fam
| ily altar. How shocking it is to the fine sen
sitiyeness of the religious experience of that
family to have father who is habtually
surly, habitually soured, habitually lacking
in politeness and courtesy TO his wife, mar
who is impatient towards his children
morning and evening perhaps taking dowr
this book of sunshine, and invoking til,
great orb of sunshine into his house, wher
he is all darkness and blackness himself
forever in revolution but always in eclipse
Remember that the first duty that religion
brings to you is TO be cheerful. How littl,
it costs, and how much it does How eas,
it is to speak a pleasant word, and yet thu
lasting influence of that word who can es
innate How much a manly, warm, hearty
genial grasp of the hand can do for MAJ
in the morning What hope it gives t,
him How he who is cast down in dejec
ton suddenly becomes erect Nothing help
a man so much as to feel that he is regarded
with sympathy by somebody,
Dark IL the night and fitful and drearily
Rushes the wind like the waves of the sea.
Little care |, as here sit cheerily,
Wife AZ my side aud my baby ON knee.
King, king, crown me the king,
Home is the kingdom, and love is the king
-GoldeR Rule,