The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-30
SOLID SENSE FROM SAW JONES.
what the Georgia Evangelist Thinks
about Husbands and wives.

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about Husbands and wives.
Sam Jones, Of Georgia, the well-known
reyivalist, thus diseourses on the treatment
of wives by husbands, and vice versa It's
ten thousand times harder to be just than
generous. It is easy enough to give a poor
woman 81, but when it comes to follow a
straight line, being just in all things, just
to God, just to your family, to your chill
dren, to all men, it is a different thing.
Some men are never Just to their wives.
They pay their cook So very willingly Sat
urday night, bot when the Woodworking,
economical. painstaking wife asks fora lit
tie money on Monday, the brute will say ::
% wife, what do you want with money p
| knew a fellow in Georgia who had been
married ten years. His wife suggested
chat that was her birthday and he said to
himself I've rot Il good wife; she has
been kind, sell-sacriticing and true in all
respects; | must buy her a present. So
he went down town that day and walked
into Il hat store, consoling himself that
nothing would more please n good wife
than to make her husband a present of a
new hat. He's the meanest man | ever
saw, and there are a great many men just
that way. We are too often unjust to our
children, exaeting of them things we don't
do ourselves, and berating them with our
tongue when they don't understand what
Al H., So, .po Zoo, mon /, -.
say ten words to make one Of them happy.
Oh, how unjust we are to wives, husbands,
children.
II you'll put a little downright justice
in your conduct to your children, you will
have happier homes. Did you ever start
anywhere with your wife, and keep hurry
ing hernp, when you ought to know she
has not only to dress herself, but five chill
dren besides, while you have nothing to
do but to get ready? Hurry up, hurry mp,
I don't want to be late. Ifyou don't hurry,
I'll 90 on by myself And after a while
she tells YOU to go on husband; I'm afraid
[ can't get ready i'll time; | don'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'dstop 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 learn how to be-
have Yourself And then | walk back
and so in and find worry in my wife's face
and tears in her eyes, and | 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 Il dog; | know | am,
and | want you to forgive me-, and she
forgives me, and we get ready and go-and
find ourselves the first ones there.
"The Lord have mercy on us; how I'M
lust we are to our wives, children, our
brothers and sisters, and our %neighbors.
There are men in this town who meet a
neighbours wife on the streets and take off
their hats and bow, and smile so sweet and
teudcrly. How are you, madam p 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, aud cut their husband to tine
heart with their tongues. God pity a mar
who has such a wife as that. Idon't scold.
I'll do, | intend TO seold somebody else's
wife. Ihayo heard mothers say, when a
~neiehbor's child would break some article
of value: oh, it doesn't matter when, II
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 70 4
wives and children and friends and neigh-
hrs