The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-02-17

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should speak out upon these themes.
Ny first counsel to you Is, have Jesus In
your new home, II It be q new home; and
let him who was guest at Bethany be In
your household; let the divine blessing
drop upon your every hope and plan and
expectation. Those young people who be-
gin with God end with heaven. Have on
your right hand the engagement ring of
the divine affection. If one Of you be a
Christian, lot that one take Bible and
read a few verses il, the evening time, and
then knesl down and commend yourselves
10 hinwho setteth the solitary in families.
want to tell you that. the destroying
angel passes by without touching or enter
ing the door.post sprinkled with blood of
the everlasting covenant. Why is 1t that
Ia some families they never get along, and
In Others they always get along wsllf l
have watched such cases, and have come
to a conclusion. In the first instance, moth
ing seemed to go pleasantly, and after
while came devastation, domestic disaster,
or estrangenent. Whyf They started
wrong. In the other case. although there
were hardships and trials, and some things
that had to be explained, still things wene
on pleasant until the very last. Whyf
They started right.
Ny advice to you in your home 10 70 ex-
ercise to the, very last possibility OF your
nature the law Of forbearance. Prayers in
the household will not make up for
everything. Some Of the best peo-
ple In the world are the hardest to get
along with. There are people who
stand up in prayer. meeting and pray
like angela, whom at home are uncompro-
missing slA cranky. You may not have
everything Just as you want it, Some
times It will be the duty Of the hus-
band and sometimeSof the wife to yield;
but both stand punctiliously on your
rights, and you will have Waterloo
with no Butcher coming up at nightfall to
decide the conflict.
! Never be ashamed to apologize when
! you have done wrong in domestic af'
fairs. Let that be law Of your house.
hold. The best thing ever heard Of
my grandfather, whom l never saw, was
this: That once having unrighteously re-.
buked one Of dis children, he himself hav.'
ing lost his patience, and, perhaps, hav'
ing been misinformed Of the child's doing,
found out his mistake, and in the evening
Of the same day gathered all his family
together and said: snow have one ex'
PLANTATION to make, and one thing to say.
Thomas, this morning rebuked you very
unfairly. am very sorry for it l re-
buked you in the presence of the whole
family, and now l ask your forgiveness
In their presence" II must have taken
some courage to do that. It was right,
was it not' Never be ashamed to apollo
gize for domestic inaccu acy. Find out
tho points; what are the weak points,
IL may call them so, Of your companion,
and then stand aloOf from them. Do not
carry the fire Of your temper too neal
the gunpowder. II the wife be easily
fretted by disorder in the household
let the husband be careful where hi
throws the slippers. II the husband GOMEZ
home from the store with his patience al
exhausted, do not let the wife unneces
sarily cross his temper; but both stand "
for your rights, and will promise the ev'
erla sting sound of the warwhoop. You
life will be spent in making up, and mar
riage will be to you an unmitigated curse
Cowper said:
| The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear;
And something, every day they live
To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Iadvise, also, that you make your chic
pleasure circle around about that home.
is unfortunate when it is otherwise. II u
husband spend the most of his nights ava.
from home, of choice, and not of necessity
he Is not the head of the household he |
only the cashier. If the wife throw tn
cares of the household in the servant
lap, and then spends five nights of the weel
at the opera or theater, she may cothe he
children with satins and laces and ribbon
that would confound French milliner
but they are orphans. Oh, itsis sad whel
child has no one to say its prayers Ia
because mother has gone of to the evening
entertainment! In India they bring chill
dren and throw them to the crocodiles, an
it seems very cruel; but the jaws of Nes
York and Brooklyn dissipation are swal
lowing down more little children to.da.
than all the monsters that ever crawie
upon the banks of the Ganges!
have seen the sorrow Of goddess moth
or on the death of child she had neglect
ed. 1t was not so much grief that she fel
from the fact that the child was dead q
the fact that she had neglected it. She said
"If had only watched over and cared 70
the child, I know God would not hsv
taken IT," The tears came not; II was
dry, blistering tempest-a scorching simoo
Of the desert. When she wruug her hand
it seemed as II she would twist her finger
from their sockets; when she seized be
hair it seemed as II she had, In wild terror
grasped q coiling serpent with her rigl
hand. No tears Comrades Of the littl
one came in and wept over the coffin
neiehbors came in, and the moment the
saw the still face of the child the Shove
broke. No tears for her. God gives teal
} as the summer rain to the parched SOU
but In al the universe the driest and 10,
test, the most scorching and eonsunin
thing Is q mothers heart II she has neg
lected her child, when once II Is dead. Go
may forgive her, but she will never forgiv
herself. The memory will sink the eye
; deeper into the sockets, and pinch the fac
and Wilton the hair, and eat up the heal
with vultures that will not be satisfies
forever plunging deeper their iron beak
o, you wanderers from your homo, q
back b your duty! The brightest nowel
in all the earth are those which grow
the garden Of Christian household, clan
, boring over the porch of . Christian HON
Iadvise you also to cultivate sympath
Of occunafi0n. Sir Samaa Macinfoah m