River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
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ded. but when they ARE suggested their
full recognition is the best policy.
Its true, no doubt, that most of thos,
who live unmarried loce not only tho
greatest happiness but t.. best dist
pline of life in never losing the conscious
ness of self.
Love took up the harp of Life, smote on al
its cords with might,
Smote the chord of Self, that trembling
psss'd in muse out of sight.
The bessedness Of perfect marriage
lies largely in the con sriousness that the
centre Of self is in the other and dearel
half, and has passed TO this centre .sin
music; or, to use siinile which is ex.
actly in point, the two halves, like bin.
arg stars, reyolye round cen ire com
mon to both aud common only TO both
Each knowsa 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
the Scriptures is 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, an
this devotion, tar from re curing I'M ef-
fort it is impossible for her to repress
"Can a mother forget her child?p
II 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
leaves, them narrow and narrowing
ana particular The loving wife east
IL 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 flana
movements. She learns also TO have her
own faults corrected by 4 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 its getting into things
and the strewing of its playthings along
the floor, and even to the prints of its
fingers on the window-pane. i 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 httle or none Of
this special kind of discipline.
Not even one little child depends on
her for happiness. What can she do?
What work will fill the empty bands
ana hungry heart?" And yet orphan
asylums are full to overfowing. In
Vulnerable mothereSS waits are floating
about in society perishing for want OF
loving care. In such world as this
there is surely enough to DO for all who
would relieve sorrow and pain and
bring Joy to the angushed 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 oyerllows with charity
and the desire of doing good, but whose
hands are empty, to associate herself
with schemes OF organized benevoIence
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
open as she advances.