St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-12-24

happy UIldJ III Is SOuSHO. al oil OiO Oh
fairs of life, a true wOman's judgment
has it's uses. Many a man has failed
for want of it, The counsel at his ell
bow would have saved him had he
sought it. Thus hOnoring her, she
will be made strong. Then, if he takes
her into counsel, and hOnors her In his
successes, when failures and reverses
come, and trouble and misfortune
sweep over them, as they do sometimes
over the best and most prosperous, she
will, in turn, grandly stand by him and
become his polar star, enduring every
hardship for his sake with sweet and
abiding cheerfulness and courage, new
er breathing a murmur of complaint.
Be worthy of her, and you will find
she will be worthy of you. Your lives
will develop together.
Let the husband be faithful and true
to his wife. The evils that L have
been speaking of are the little foxes
that spoil the vines. But intemper-
ance and infidelity are what DR.. Alb
bolt calls the wolves that destroy the
home. The Lord Bishop of Durham
founded the White Cross League. 1t
asserts that the time will come when
fatherhoOd will take it's place beside
motherhood, it's divine counterpart, as
equal sharers in the cares which have
so ennObled women as to make some
of them akin to angels. The pledge OF
this order declares: 81 will maintain
the law of purity as equally binding on
men and women. l will endeavor to
spread these principles among my
companions, and try to help my young
er brothers. | will use every means to
fulfil the sacred command, keep thy
self pure?"
If the wife be led into sin, she is de-
nounced and cast off as thing I'M
clean, with little effort for her reform,
yet through all the husbands excuses
and untruth to her, and drunkenness
and dishOnOr, she clings to him, plead
ing and tOiling to draw him back into
the true path. How the husband owes
it to such a being to keep his marriage
vows in all fidelity and truth.
l have spoken of the little foxes and
the wolves of the home. The vampire
of welded life is where an alien comes
i'm between husband and wife, under
sanction and authority of the husband,
and frets, almost to breaking, the mar
riage tie, and sucks out the pure joys
of cOnnubial life.
Every husband should be Christian
in heart and life, and unite with the
wife in faith and prayer and the SER
vice of God. He should j Yin with her
in the training of the children for use
fulness here and for heaven hereafter.
The husband should not let the wife
pray alone. The whole household
needs it. He should not allow her to
90 alone to church. He requires it as
much as she. He should be with her
at the communion table. Above all he
should not leave to her the Christian
education of the children. Alone in
this, the wife is bird with one wing.
1t is great wrong to the wife, to put
all these trying and difficult duties on
her. when God lays them equally on
him. Some of the most important
ones can only be done 10y him. Others
require their united Christian effort,
the closest conference of Christian
hearts.
A married couple can never be truly
one, in the greatest and prOfoundest
interests of life until both are Chris
tians. The most sacred and blessed
side of the soul, that bordering on
eternity, they cannot walk together in,
until they together know the Lord.
How many times does a mothers heart
ache for the aid Christian father
could give to her, when perplexed in
the household, when things are ut cross
purposes, and the load seems heavier
than she can bear.
How barren after all is welded joy,
to live together on earth, and for earth
only, without the bright hope of dwell
ing together in eternity, meeting there
never more to part. That home can
not be happiest which looks for no re-
union in heaven. The happiest home
is always the Christian home, where
husband and wife are one at the family
altar, as one in interests and affection.
i The Advance.