St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-08
The Wife Should be Taken Into al Plan
Successes, Defeats and
Ambitions.
Much Attention TO Other
Mems Wives.
Women Should be Encouraged to
Strengthen their Christian
Character.
DIR. TaImage,s Sermon.


tate in the field at the eventide, and
he lifted up his eyes, and saw,
and, behold. the camels were coming.
A bridal pageant on the back of dromeda-
Tiesl The camel is called the ship of the
desert. It's swinging motion in the distance
is suggestive OF a vessel rising and falling
with the pillows. Though awkw ard, how
imposing these creatures as they move
along, whether in ancient or modern times,
sometimes carrying 400 or 1000 travellers
from Bagdad to Aleppo. or from Bassora
70 Damascus. In my text comes a caravan
We notice the noiselesS step OF the broad
foot. the velocity Of motion, the gay COM
parison of saddle and girth and awning
sheltering the riders from the sun; and the
hilarity of the mounted passengers; and We
cry out who are they?" Well Isaac has
been praying for wife. and IL is time he
had one. for he is 40 years of age. and his
servant, directed by the Lord. has made
selection OF Rebekah; and with her CON-
paniOns and maidens, she is on her way to
her new home. carrying with her the bless
ing OF all her friends. Isaac is in the helds
meditating upon his proposed passage from
cellbacy to mOnogamy. And he sees
speck against the sky, then groups Of
people. and, after a while, he finds that the
grandest earthly blessing that ever comes
70 man Is approaching with
THIS GAY CARAVAN.
The drivers cry ''Kneel" to the camels, and
they kneel, and putting foot on the neck of
the STOPPING beast the bride diSmOunIs and
greetS the man who was as worthy Of her
as she was worthy of him. And Isaac
went out to mediate in the field at the
eventide; and he lifted up his eyes and
saw, and, behold. the camels were comiug."
First of all charge you realize your re-
sponsibility in having taken her from the
custody and care and homestead in which
she was once sheltered. What courage you
III ust have had, and what confidence in
yourself to say to her practically: Il will
be TO you more than your father and
mother, more than all the friends you ever
had or ever can have. Give up everything
and take me. feel competent to see you
through life in safety. You are an immOr-
tai being, but am competent to defend
you and make you happy. However bright
and comfortable home you have now, and
though in one Of the rooms is the arm chair
in which you rocked. and in the garnet is
the cradle in which you were huShed and
the trundle-bed in which you slept. and in
the sitting room are the father and mother
who have got wrinkle-faced and stOOp-
shouldered and dim-eye-sighted in taking
care Of you, yet you Will do better TO come
with me-" | am amazed that any OF us
ever had the sublimity of impudence to ask
such transfer from a home assured to a
home conjectured and unbuilt. Many men
are more kind TO
EVERYBODY ELsE's WIVES
than to their own wives. They will let the
wife carry heavy coal scuttle upstairs,
and will at one bound clear the width OF a
m nj nfh ar To- ,-f- ol-o%
handkerchief. There is an evil which /
have seen under the sun. and il is common
among men, namely, husbands in Irritation
The attention they ought TO put upon their
own wives they bestow upon others. They
smile on them coyly and. askance, and with
a manner that seems TO say. Il wish / was
free from that old drudge at home What
an improvement you would be on my
present surroundings And bouquets are
sent, and accidental meetings take place.
and late at night the man comes to his
proSaic home whistling and hilarious. and
wonders that the wife is jealous. There
are thousands OF men who, while not posi-
lively immoral, need radical correction OF
their habits in this direction. 1t is mean
ness Unreasonable for man, by his be-
havior, to seem to say 10 his wife: ''You
can't help yourself, and | will go
where please, and admire whom
please, and L defy your criticism" Why
did you not have that put in the bond. o
domestic Shylock? Why did you not have
it understood before you were pronounced
husband and wife, that she should have
only pant of the dividend of your affec-
tions, that when. as time rolled on and the
cares of life had erased some Of the bright
lines from her face, and given unwleldiness
to her form, you would have the reserved
right TO pay obeisance 10
CHEEKS MORE RIJBIcUND
and figure lither and more agile, and as You
demanded the last pound Of patience and
endurance on her part, you could. with the
emphasis of an Edwin Forest or a Ma
cready, have tapped the eccentric marriage
document and have said: Its in the
bond" If this modern Rebekah had
understood beforehand where she was
slighting, she would have ordered the
camel drivers to turn the caravan back
wards towards Psdan-aram. Filtration has
its origin either in dishonesty or Icen-
tiousness. The married man who
INDUCES in it is either q fraud or a rake.
However high up in society such a one NAV
be, and however sought after. / would not
give three-cent piece, though it had been
three times clipped. for the virtue of either
the masculine or feminine hirt. The most
worthy thing for the thousands OF married
men to do is TO go home and apologize for
past negleets, and brighten up their old
love. Take up the family bible and read
the record of the marriage day. Open the
drawer of relics in the BOX inside the
drawer, containing the trinkets of your dead
child. Take ub the pack of yellow-covered
letters that were written before YOU became
one. Rehearse the scenes of Joy and sor-
row in which you have mingled. Put all
these things as fuel on the altar, and by a
coal of sacred fire rekindle the extinguished
light. 1t was blast from hell that blew it
out. and gale from heaven will fan it into
blaze. Ye who have
BROKEN MARRIAGE vows,
speak Quit take your wife into all your
plans, your successes, you defeats your
ambitions. Tell her everything. Walk
arm in arm with her into places of amuse-
ment, and on the piazza of summer water
| ing-places, and up the rugged way OF life,
and down through dark ravine, and when
one trembles on the way let the other be
reinforcement. In no case pass yourself
on as single man practcing gallantries.
DO not after you are nifty years of age, in
ladies' society try TO look yeung-mannish.
Put her not in that awfui dilemma i'm which
so many Christian wives are placed BY
their husbands, who ask them to go 10
places or do things which compel them to
decide between loyalty TO God and LOYALTY
to the husband Rather than ask her to
compromise her Christian character, encour-
age her to be more aud more a Christian.
for there will be times in your
life when you will want the help OF all her
Christian resources; and certainly, when
you remember how much influence your
mother had over you. you do not want the
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