The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-04-03

AIN NDIlnO\
who are quickly observant of faults IN
others but oblivious to faults in yourself
and now, having found out all each 9th
er's inperfections, forbear. If the one
be given to too much precision and the
other disorderly in habits; if the one be
spendthrift and the other over. saving
if the one be loquacious and the other
reticent, for5ear. Especially if you both
have inaammable tempers, do not both
get mad at once. Take turn about
William Cowper put il we'll when he
said:
The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbcar;
And something every day they i've
To pity and perhaps forgive.
Again, in order to your happiness, let
there be no interfering with each others
peculiar religious sentiments. If you
are a Baptist and your wife is Pedo'
Baptist do not go splashipg water in each
others faces. If you are Presbyterian
and your husband is a Methodist, when
he shouts Hallelujah, do not get nervous.
If you have strong denominalional pro-
cliyities, one of you had better 60 to one
church and the other had better go to
another church, or, surrendering some OF
your intensity on that subject, as in
HUNDREDS OF CASES,
come to some such church as the Brook
lyn Tabernacle, where, while We adhere
to the fundamentals of the gospel, we
do not care rye straw for the in6nitesl'
NAL differences beween evangelical de-
nominations--putting one drop OF water
on the brow, if that is enough baptism
and if not, then plunging the candidate
clear out of sight, if that is preferred
not caring whether you believe you have
been fore ordained to be saved or not, If
you are only saved; nor whether you
believe in the perseverance of the saints
or not, if you will only persevere; nor
whether you prefer prayer by episcopal
liturgy or ex.extemporaneous supplica-
ton, if you only pray. Do not let there
be any religious contests across the
breakfast.table or the tea-table. It
makes but little difference from what
direction you come toward the riven
heart of Christ, if you only come up to
the riven heart. Yet l know, in many
families, there is constant picking at
opposite religious beliefs and attempt at
proselytism. You, the father, fight for
Episcopscy, and you, the mother, fight
for Presbyterianism, and your children
viii! compromise the matter and be moth
ingarians.
Again, I counsel you, in order to your
domestic happiness, that you cultivate
each others religious welfare. This is a
profoundly agitating thought to every
fair minded man and woman. You live
together on earth; you want to live to-
gether forever; you do not want ten or
twenty or fifty years to end your associa'
ton; you want to take your companion
into the kingdom of God with you. If
this subject is Irritating in the household
it is because you do not understand
Christian strategem. Every Christian
companion may take his or her compan-
ion into glory. How? Ask God and
He will tell you how. Perhaps by o.
occasional religious remark. Perhaps
by earnest prayer. Perhaps by consist.
ens life. More probably by al these
things combined. Paul put it forcefully
when he said: "How knowest thou, .
wife, whether thou shalt save thy hus-
band? How knowest thou, 0 man,
whether thou shalt save thy wife," In
this house how many have been remar-
ried for the skies. 1t has become so
much the general rule that when in my
congregation, as I often do, I find fam
lily in which the wife is Christian and
the husband is not, I just say frankly to
him: "Now, you have got to come in.
You might just as we'll try to swim up
against Niagara rapids as against the
tide of religious influence which in this
church is going to surge you into the
Kingdom of God. You must come in.
You know that your wife is right in this
matter of religion" She may be quick
of temper, and you may sometimes lose
your patience with her, but you know
she is better than you are, and you know
when she dies she will 60 as straight to
heaven as a shot to target. And if to.
day on tue way home vehicle should
dash down the street, and she should fall
lifeless, with no opportunity for last
words, you might have doubt about
what would become of you, and doubt
about what would become of the chill.
dren, but you would have no doubt about
her eternal destiny. Somewhere under
the flush of her cheek or under the pallor
of her brow is the Lords mark. She is
vour wife. but she is Gods child, and
you are not jealous Of that relationship
You only wish that you yourself were 8
son of the Lord Almighty. Come and
have the matter settled. If die before
you will not forget in the next world
how you stood together here, but | vii
expect both of you. You must come.
say ii in all Christion love and EN-
phasis, as brother talks to brother
| vou ,nust come You have been unitet