The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-21


hold anxleties, have heir equipoise bal
anced. But few American men and wo-
men have any nerves worth speaking OF
These delicate telegraph wires OF TIE
BODY are damaged by the storms, and 40
let the lightpinRs of temper run over
them irregularly. Know that these re
lationShips at the longest will be brief.
Spare all the harsh words you can. and
all severe retorts as far as possible, for
before long hearse will drive up to
your door, and from your presence Will
be taken out the best friend you have IN
all the world, and the richest worldly
boon that God has in his omnipotence
and infnity capacity to bestow "a good
wife. When child is taken that desc
lates the home, but wfe's departure
desolates all the house, all the heart and
all the earth, The silenCes are so ap
paIling after her voice is still, the vacan'
cies so ghastIy, the gloom as though the
midnight Of fifty years were upon you.
A child wandering fir m room to room
with hurt finger, crying for mother,
who will not come, and waking in the
night and crying for drink saving,
mo. want mother to bring it" RIM
iniscenCes rushing upon the soul Ike a
mountain torrent over which cloud has
burst. Her jewels, Der books, her dres
ses, suggestive of banquet or burials, pat
in the trunk, the fall Of whose lid, wi h
heavy thud, seems to say, Dead" The
morning dead, the night dead, the air
dead, and the world dead. tell you 0
man, in that hour, if never before, you
would be willing to pay out in red coin
of blood, every drop from your heart to
buy back all the htsty and reckless and
unkiud words you have ever uttered and
all the slights But you can not buy
them back. Words gone forth from your
lips fly not in circles 80 as to come back
again like doves to their cot, but in a
straight line a million miles a minute,
across he eternities.
But must not omit one great cause of
domest discord that is, Gossip, This
is INDUCED in by both sexes but proba
by more aggravated by the women. AL
classes are poisoned wIh its deadly in
Anence; every home is blighted by the
curse; from the most cultivated and in
teligent circles down to the most Hitter
ate and degraded spawns, 1t is the one
great, objectionable sin of the age; and
no legislation can prevent or remedy it..
ST, Paul says of this sin: The tongue
though little member is full of deadly
poison" There is no sin more str lngly
condemned by the Bible han gos- iping
1t is by no means modern sin, but ex
tends backward through all the Centur-
les to pr mitive society. Paul found il
in the early church, doing the same mis-
chief it is doing now, black. mailing, as
sailing character, running reputation. If
every gossip circle could be turned into
prayer meeting, aud every member be
come Bible student, what happy and
glorious chang. There would be no
tsttlng, no lying, no slandering, no
backbitiDg, no jealousies. But for this
sin much happiness and peace would
exist
have in my mind couple united in
holy marriage in Dec, l9 1903. Their
Christian names were like themselves
old faslioned-Ddvid, the one, and Cath
arine the other. Legal contract, Of
course, hut most Of all, the heart married
them. They lived to celebrate their
crystal wedding, their silver wedding,
their golden wedding, and nine years
beside. Over three Ghitdren's graves
they had wept. But through all their
ruggIes in life they kept the Christian
faith. They lived for God, for each
other, for their children, and for every.
body but themselves. Their hair whit.
ened and their steps grew shorter, and
their voices trembed in the church
psalm, though they once had led in the
village choir. The one leaned heavily
on the staff EhiCh | have in my house,
hut heavier on the arm of that God who
had never failed MIN. These TWO nar
ried ones were we'll mated. Wbat was
The joy of one was the j,y of the other;
what was the sorrow Of one was the sor.
row of the other. At last they parted.
Three years precedence in departure did
the Lord give her. Though a deeply
man, never saw my father
cry but once, and that wa on the day OF
mothers burial. Yuu sae they had been
together fry nine years Ia her last
moments mother said to my father, "Fa
ther, would It nor be pleasant if We both
could go togetherP" But tSe three years
soon pa sed aud they were remarked
7 heir children are gradually joining
them. and soon We will all be there. But
tDat vision Of my parents married life
will linger in my memory forever. To
gether in the old church at Snmmerville
on the morning they both professed Je
pus Christ before their marriage day; to.
gether, in all the vcissijudes IF long
life; together, in the quiet If the village
together, in heaven. in
The cave that is in the field Of Machpels;
which is before Msmre, here they bur
led Abraham and Sara his wife; there
they buried Isaac and RebeCca, his wife,
and ere buried Leah"