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

anu now, having Iound out all each 9th
er's imperfections, forbear. If the one
be given 10 too much precision and tn,
other disorderly in habits; il the one bt
spendthrift and the other ovcr-saying
if the one be loquacious and the other
reticent, forbear. Especially if you both
have inflammable tempers, do not botl
get mad at once. Take turn about
William Cowper put it well when he
said
The kindest and the happiest pair
Will hnd occas on to forbcar;
And something every day they live
10 pity and perhaps forgive.
Again, in order to your happiness, lei
there be no interfering with each others
peculiar religious sentiments. If you
are Baptist and your wife is "A Pedo.
Baptist do not &C splasLipg water in each
others faces. If you are Presbyterian
and your husband is n Methodist, when
he shouts Hallelujah, do not get nervous
IL you have strong denominational pro.
clivities, one of you had better go to one
church and the other had better go to
another church, or, surrenderiug some oi
your intensity on that subject, as iu
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 infinitesi.
NAL differences baween evangelical de.
Misunderstanding 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-extemporaneou supplica-
tion, if you only pray. Do not let there
be any religious contests across the
breakfast.table or the tea.table. 1t
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 know, in many
families, there is constant picking at
opposite religious beliefs and attempt ut
proselytism. You, the father, fight for
Episcopacy, and you, the mother, fight
for Presbyterianism, and your children
will compromise the matter and be moth.
ingarians.
Again, counsel you, in order to your
domestic happiness. that you cultivate
each others religious welfare. This is q
profoundly agitating thought to every
fair minded man and woman. You live
together on earth you want to live to.
gethcr forever; you do not want ten or
twenty or fifty years to end your associa-
tion; 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 s,rategem. Every Christian
companion may take his or her compan.
ica into glory. How? ask God and
He vii! tell you how. Perhaps by oc.
occasional religious remark. Perhaps
by earnest prayer. Perhaps by consist.
cnt life. More probably by all these
things combined. Paul put it forcefully
when he said: How knowest thou, 0
wife, whether thou shalt save thy hus-
band: How knowest thou, o man,
whether thou shalt save thy wife? 2" In
this house how many have been remar-
ried for the skies. Il has become 80
much the general rule that when in my
congregation, as l often do, I find fam
lily in which the wife is a Christian and
the husband is not, just say frankly to
him: "Now, you have got to come in.
You might just rs 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 a vehicle should
dash down the street, and she should fall
lifeleas, with no opportunity for last
words, you might have a 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
your wife, but she is Gods child, and
you arc not jealous of that relationship.
You only wish that you yourself were q
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 I will
expect both of you. You must come.
say it in all Christion love and EN-.
phasis, as brother talks to brother,
you must come. You have been united
80 long you can not afford to have death
divorce you. How long it is since you
began the struggle of life together? You
have helped each other on the road, and
what you have done for each other God
only knows. There have been tedious