The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-04-26

ded, hut when they are suggested their
full refocnition is the best policy.
1t is the, no doubt, that most of those
who LIVE unmarried lose not only the
greatest happiness but the best dist.
pline ofVfe in never losing the conscious
Love took|np the harp of Life, smote on all
itstcords with might,
smote the CHORD of Self, that, trembling.
pasHd in music out of sight.
The blessedness of perfect marriage
lies LARGELY in the con seriousness that the
centre of self is in the other and dearer
half, and has passed to this centre "in
music": or. to use smile which is ex-
actly in point, the two halves, like bin
ary stars, reyolve round cen tire com.
mon to both and common only to both
Each knows all the heart, all the thought,
all the being Of the other; as the soul
and body are one, So the husband and
wife are one, in An intimacy as sacred
as it is pure and entire, and which in
-. sc,~.iptules il compared to the rela-
ton between Christ and the Church.
Then in the mother-love there is the
same or greater abnegation Of self. The
mother delights in giving her life to her
child and for her child If need be. AMI
this devotion, far from re luiring an ef-
fort it is impossible for her to repress.
Can d mother forget her child?"
1t is the want of this discipline and all
that it implies, so pleasant to take that
it seems to demand another name that
prevents the majority OF "old maids"
from being lovable and lovely, that
ana particular" The loving wife east
ly learns to overlook or make allowance
for such faults as she may discover in
her husband, and to cure them if they
can be cured, not by direct attack, but
by gentle and wisely devised han6
movements. She learns also to have her
own faults corrected by loving hand.
The mother submits almost with pleas
ure to pulling of her hair, the disarrang-
ing of her dress, by the dear little hands
OF her baby, to it's '''getting into things"
and the strewing OF its playthings along
the floor, and even to the prints of its
fingers on the window-pane. 1t could
be wished in some cases that the 'di-
vine phrensy" of mother-love were in
these matters less pronounced than it is.
The single woman has little or none of
this special kind of dlsci pine.
Not even one little child depends on
her for happiness. What can she do?
What work will fill the empty hands
ana hungry hearth" And yet orphan
asylums are full to overlooking. In
Vulnerable motherless waits are floating
about in society perishing for want OF
loving care. In such a world as this
there is surely enough to do for all who
would relieve sorrow and pain and
bring Joy to the anguislled heart and
light to the darkened soul. Wisely in
deed, has the "Mother Church" provid-
ed "vocations'; for the women in her
membership, and made it possible for
her whose heart overflows with charity
and the desire of doing good, but whose
hands are empty, to associate herself
with schemes of organized benevolence
in fields that are always white to the
harvest" Some of our Protestant COM
munion have followed this example, and
the. "Sisters Of Mercy are happy in
their work. Lacking association Of this
kind, she who is really in earnest to
bring happiness to herself by creating it
in the hearts of others will find the way
omen as sha advances