News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-06
A FEW PRACTICAL HINTS.
For Husbands and Wives, Given by Sam
Jones, the Southern Revivalist.

Says Rev. Sam Jones, in sermon at
Murfordsborough, Tenn: cts ten
thousand times harder to be just than
generous; It is easy enough to give a
poor woman dollar, but when it comes
to following straight line, being just in
all things, just to God, to your family,
to your children, to all men, it is diff
ferent thing. Some men are never just
to their wives. They pay their cook So
very willingly Saturday night, but when
the hard working, economical, pains
taking wife asks for little money on
Monday; the brute will say: "Qh; wife,
what do you want with money!"
knew fellow in Georgia who had
been married ten years. His wife sug
gested that that was her birthday, and
he said to himself: "Tve got a good
wife; she has been kind, self-sacrifcing
and true in all respects; must buy hel
present" So he went down town that
day and walked into a hat store and
bought himself new hat, c6flsoling him
self that nothing would more please
good wife than to make her husband a
present of new hat. He's the meanest
man l ever saw, and there are a great
many men Just that way.
We are too often Unjust to our chill
dren, exacting of them things we don't do
ourselves, and berating them with our
tongue when they don't understand
what we want. And then we are too
mean to say ten words to make one of
them happy. Oh, how unjust we are to
wives, husbands, children!
If you'll put little downright justice
in your conduct to your children, you'll
have happier homes: Did you ever start
anywhere with your wife, and Keep hitr-
rying her up, when you ought to know
she has not only to dress herself, but five
children besides, while you have nothing
to do but to get ready9 Hurry up,
hurry up, / don't want to be too late! #
you don't hurry, I'll go on by myself.
And after awhile she tells you to ego
on, husband: Pm afraid can't get ready
in tune for you; doR't want TO hinder
you"
I've done just that way. have
walked off, out the gate and fifty yards
down the road, and then I'd stop and
think. I'd say: @ Sam Jones, you are
the meanest man living, and you shan't
go to church nor anywhere else till you
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then walk back and go in and find wor
~ in my wife's face and tears in her
eyes, and 1 go up and put my arms
around her and kiss her-there's nobody
there but us two-and say: "Wife; I'm
just as mean as dog; know l am, and
want you to forgive me" and she for
gives me, and we get ready and go
and find ourselves the first ones there.
The Lord have mercy on US; how un-
just we are to our wives, our children, our
brothers and sisters, and our neighbors.
There are men in this town who meet
neighbours wife on the street and take off
their hats and bow and smile a sweet
and tenderly, Chow are you, MADAME
and then go home and wound their own
wives with their tongues. Clever to all
wives but their own. And so it is with
some wives. They are all smiles and
kind words in company, and cut their
husbands to the heart with their tongues.
God pity the man who has such a wife
as that.
1 don't scold. If 1 do 1 intend to
scold somebody else's wife. I have
heard mothers say when neighbor's
child would break some article of value
"Oh, it doesn't matter" when, if their
own child were to do it they'd slap him
clean across the room. Lord, give us a
religion that will make us good to our
wives and children and friends and
neighbors.