Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-02

Z snOuld De IN a position antagonist,
: to Christ! 1t was not q slip of the
, tongue when l spoke of you as being
/ at the head of the household. W.
men rather pride ourselves as being
f at the head of the household, but il
: is only pleasant delusion. Tc
, whom do the children 60 when they
have troubled When there is O sore
finger to be bound up, or one of the
+ first teeth that needs to be removed
to make way for one that is crowd.
ing'it out to whom does the child
go? For whom do children cry out
at night when they get frightened at
bad dream? Aye, to whom does
the husband go when he has bust
ness trouble, great or too delicate for
outside ears? We, the men, are
heads of the household in name, but
you, o wives! are the heads of the
household in fact, and it is your busi-
ness to take your husband with you
into the kingdom of God and see
that house prepared for heaven.
| You can do It! OF course Gods
Almighty grace alone can convert
him, but you are to be the instru-
ment Some wives keep their hus-
bands out of heaven and others gar
ner them for il. II your religion, o
wife, is simply the joke OF the house.
hold you would rather go to the
theatre than the prayer-meeting; if
you can beat all the neighborhood in
progressive euchre; if your husband
never sees you kneel at the bedside
In prayer before retiring; if the only
thing that reminds the family of
your church relation is that on com
nunion day you get home late TO
dinner, you will not be able to take
your husband to heaven for the sim
pie reason that you will not get there
yourself. Bnt l suppose that your
religion is genuine and that the hus-
band realizes there is in your soul
divine principle, and that, though
you may be naturally quicker tenn
pered than he is and have many i'm
perfections that distress you more
than they can any one else, still you
are destined for the skies when the
brief scenes of this life are over.
How will you take him with you?
There are two oars to that boat-pray-
er and holy example.
But you say he belongs to a world
ly club, or he does not believe word
of the Bible, or he is an inebriate and
very loose in his habits? What you
tell me shows that you don't under
stand that while you are at the one
end of a prayer, the omnipotent God
is at the other end, and it is simply a
question whether Almighliness is
strong enough and keeps his word.
Ihave no doubt there will be great
conventions in heaven called for cele-
brative purposes, and when in some
celestial assemblage the saints shall
be telling what brought them to
God, believe that ten thousand
times ten thousand will say, "My
wife,"
/ put beside each other two testi-
monies ofmen concerning their wives,
and let you see the contrast. An aged
man was asked the reason of his sal
vation. With fearful emotion he said |
"My wife was brought to God some
years before myself. l persecuted
and abused her because of her reli-
gion. She, however, returned moth
ing but kindness constantly, main
tanning an anxiety to promote my
comfort and happiness, and it was
her amiable conduct when suffering
Ill treatment from me that first sent |
the arrows of conviction to my SOUL"
The other testimony was from dy-
ing man: "Harriet / am a lost man.
You opposed our family worship and
my secret prayer. You drew me
away into temptation and to neglect
every religious duty. 1 believe my
fate is sealed. Harriet, you are the
cause of my everlasting ruin" How
many glorious married couples in
Heaven-Adam and Eve, Abraham
and Sarah, Lapidoth and Deborah,
Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Rach-
Ell, Zacharias and Elizabeth, Joseph
and Mary, and many whom we have
known as good as the most of them
AS once you stood in the village
or city church, Or in your fathers
house, perhaps under a wedding bell
of flowers, to-day stand up, husband
and wife, beneath the cross of par
doning Redeemer, while 1 proclaim
banns of an eternal marriage. Join
your right hands. 1 pronounce you
one forever. What God hath Joined
together let neither life nor death nor
time nor eternity put asunder. Wit
ness, men and angels, all worlds, all
agesl The circle is an emblem of
eternity, and that Is the shape of the
marriage ring.