The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14

as you demanded the last pound OF patience and
endurance on her part. you could. with the
emphasis OF an Edwin Forrest or Macready
have tapped the eccentric marriage document
and have said: tits in the bona!" If this modern
Rebehak had understood beforehand where she
was alighting, she would have ordered the camel
Padan- aram. Filtration has its origin either IN
dishonesty or RIGHTEOUSNESS. The married man
who INDUCES in it is either fraud or a rake
However high up in society such one may be-
and however sought after, | would not give q
three-cent piece. though it had been three times
clipped, for the virtues of either the masculine
or feminine fiirt.
The most worthy thing for the thousands of
married men is to go home and apologize for
past neglects, 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 up the pack
of yelow-covered letters that written be-
fore you became one. Rehearse the scenes OF
joy and sorrow in which you have mingled. Put
of sacred fire rekindle the extinguised light.
1t was a blast from hell that blew it out, and
gale from heaven will fan it into a blaze.
Ye who have broken marriage vows speak out;
take your wife into all your plans, your success
es your defeats, your ambitions. Tell her ev-
erything. Walk arm and arm with her into
places Of amusement, and on the piazza of sum-
mer watering places, and up the rugged way of
life, and down through dark ravines and when
one trembles on the way, let the other be rein
forcement II nc, case pass yourself off as sim
gle man practicing gallantries. Do not. after
you are fifty years of age, in ladies' society try
to look young mannish. Interfere not with your
wlfe's religious nature. Put her not in that aw-
ful dilemma IN which SO many Christian wives
are placed by their husbands, who ask them to
go to 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, encourage her to
be more and more q Christian, for there will
be times in your when you will want
the help of all her Christian resources. and
certainly when you remember how much infiu-
ence your mother had over you, you do not want
the mother of your children to set less gracious
example 1t pleases me greatly to hear the I'M
converted and worldly husband say about his
wife, with no idea that it will get to her ears.
There is the most Cody woman alive. Her
goodness is a perpetual rebuke to my hayward
ness. Nothing on earth could ever induce her
to do wrong thing. | hope the children will
take after her instead of after me. If there is
any heaven at all, am sure she will go there"
Aye. my brother, do you not think it would
be wise and safe thing for You to join her on
the road to heaven? You think you have a
happy home now but what home you would
have if you both were religiousl What new
sacredness 1T would give to your marital rela-
ton, and what new light it would throw on
the forehead of your children. In sickness,
wealth! In death, what a triumph! God meant
you to be the high priest of your household. Go
home to-day and take the Bible on your lap, and
gather all your family yet living around you.
and those not living will hear Of it in flash,
and as mlnistering spirits will hover-father, and
mother, and children gone, and all your celestial
kindred. Then kneel down, and if you can't
think OF prayer to offer, will give you
prayer. namely; lord God, 1 surrender 10
Thee myself and my beloved wife. and these
doa Enr Eh,-St Ia oil
the past and help us for all the future We have
lived together here; may we live together for
ever. Amen and amen" Dear me, what stir
it would make among your best friends on earth
and in heaven!
Joseph II, the Emperor, was so kind and so
philanthropic that he excited the unbounded
love of most of his subjects He abolished serf-
dom, established liberation, and lived in the
happiness of his people, One day while on his
way to Ostend to declare it free port and while
at the head of q great procession, he saw a
woman at the door of her cottage in detection.
The Emperor dismounted and asked the cause of
her grief. She said that her husband had gone
to Ostend to see the Emperor and had declined
to take her with him, for, as he was an alien he
could not understand her loyal enthusiasm, and
that 1t was the great desire of her life to see
the ruler for whose kindness and good
ness and greatness she had an unspeak-
not being able TO go and see him
was simply unbearable The Emperor Joseph
took from his pocket box decorated with dia-
monds surrounding picture of himself and pre-
sented it to her, and when the picture revealed
to whom she was talking, she knelt in reverence
and clapped her hands in giadness before him.
The Emperor took the name of her husband and
the probable place whore he might be found at
Ostend, and had him imprisoned for the three
days of the Emperors visit. so that the husband
returning home found that the wife had seen the
Emperor while he had not seen him.
In many families OF this earth the wife
through the converting grace of God, has seen
the King in his beauty" and he has conferred
upon her the pearl Of great price, while the hus-
band is an ''aleu from the covenant of promise
without God and without hope in the world" and
imprisoned in worldliness and sin. Oh, that
they might arm in arm 60 this day and see Him
who is not only greater and lovelier than any
Joseph of earthly dominion but '.high over all
in earth, and air and sky" His touch is life
His voice is music. His smile is heaven.
JAPANESE GARDENS.