, 1886-02-07

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has a right to know everything that inter
ests you; your defeats, your victories, your
successes, your losses. your gains, your hap
piness, they are all hors. Tell her every
thing. IL n man is going into "A business
enterprise. and no dare not tell his wlfo
about It, he is eithor on the road to bank
ruptcy or moral ruin Thero may b.
things that he does not want to trouble
his vito with, but II he dare not toll
her, he Is ON his way to misfortune. Men
often say, IL / had only taken my wife's nd.
vicei She comes by her faculty through in
tuition, and so secs what is best. You went
up, nround-about way for your experience.
b find out what would nave been best.
Blessed. oh, blessedi is that woman who does
not, at the close OF such experience as yours,
say. II told you So"
Then let the husband be sympathetic with
tho occupation OF the wife. 1t Is a harl
thing to keep houss. Thero are n thousand
martyrs OF the kitchens. What nm annoy
ing thing 1t is for n man to como home at
night, and not knowing what the wife, in
the parlor, in tho kitchen, in the nursery,
and in the drawing room, and have her state
something that occurred during the day
that annoyed her very much, for you
10 say; 'Oh, you do not know any.
thing about trouble. II you Just had beon
over to the store for an hour. sympathy OF
occupation. II the husbands work covers
him with tho SCOT OF the furnace, the odor
Of leather or soap factory, do not let tho
wife DO too easily disgustei by tho grimed
hand or unsavory odors. To man and wifo
God has given four nrms to fight the ba title
OF lifo with. four eyes to soc the
danger, four shoulders to lift the burden. II
Is a sad thing for n painter when his wife
don't like pictures; IL Is a sad thing for n
pianist when her husband don't like music; It
Is a sad thing when tho wife thinks her hus-
band Il not In a genteel business. Now, a
genteel business as near as | can understand
1t, means that a man goes to work about 10
o'clock In the morning and gets through
about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, aud gets
n largo amount Of salary for doing
nothing. That is n genteol business, and
there has been many a woman who has
ruined her household by wanting to get her
husband In some genteel business. Turning
his back on his business, falling into evil as
sociations, where he acquires bad habits that
finally upset him. and be takes his wife and
children down with him In tho sano mael-
strom.
tell you, IL your husband has an honest
bu iness, DO satisfied with it There is run
ming to destruction, there Is leaving for de-
struction every hour long trains, every hour
Of the day and night. trains running from tho
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that go very slowly and arc very heavily
laden There are accommodation trains
that stop ever and anon to let mon got of,
but g%enteel idlenoss "a the express train, of
which Satan is the stoker and the engineer.
and though you are In front waving tho red
flag of danger and swinging tho lantern it
goes by like a shot to perdltion with wail-
ing AMI shouting and shrieking, tumb Ing
over the embankment crash crashl crnshl
The elias, OF men suro to be destroyed are
first, those who have nothing to do; second,
those who have something to do but arc too
proud or lazy to do It.
Again, | charge you in your new hons.
let love preside. When your behavior in
the home circle is n matter of cold calcula-
tion; when the caress is merely the result OF
your deliberate study as to what Is proper,
domestic happiness Is gone. Let no shadow
fall ON your affection 1t is easier to kill that
flower than to make 1t grow again. The blast
Of hell, that puts out the light OF
affection, leaves you in blackness and
darkness forever. a man and a wife resolve
the wil have n home; that is tho one thing
Tia pgreed in. They quarrel about
" y else, but they are going TO nave
a hs.. They resolve to build a splen-
did house, the architect makes a plan, and
the mechanic executes il. Tn houss costs
100000. The carpets are hid, tho chande-
liers are swung, tho cards are sent out,
horses and gold-plated harness paw at the
gates, guests come in, the flute sounds, and
dancers go up and down the floor in one
grand whirl OF wealth and pomp and fashion.
Let us build n throne for tho queen OF hap
piness right in the middle OF the parlor floor,
and let all tho guests as they come
in throw their sapphires and bril-
liants and diamonds on this throne,
and then lot the queen OF happiness mount
that throne, and then let us all stand around
with uplifted ehalices, crying. ''Oh, queen.
live foreverI' But now tho guests have de-
parted. the flutes are breathless, tho
last clash of the inpatient horses
can DO hoard in the distance
and the twain come to mid -parlor floor to
find the queen OF happiness on the throne,
but loi the flowers have all wlltod;
10! instead OF tho queen of happi-
ness on the throne there Is ths
gaunt form of anguish, with bitten lip
and sunken eyes and ashes in her hair.
The tramp OF the foot OF the dancers seoms
laundering yet, and the clash of the glasses
seems still to be heard, but all has become
black, all tho lights are out, and then the
lips OF the wine bibbers whispered,
Happiness il not in us; then tho
archers reply, Happiness is not in us,
and thon tho instruments played on by in
visible fingers say happiness Is not In us;
and then anguish, seated on tho throne.
clasps her bony hands together and cries
IL is not in me.
That same night a young man, on a $1,000
salary, goes to his home that he SGT up three
months ago just after tho marriage day.
Love meets him at the door, love
sits with him at the table, love
talks over all the tolls OF the
day, lovo takes down tho Bible and reads
OF Him who came our souls to save,
and then tho twain kneel, and while they
are k~neeling tho angels Of God came and
build n throne upon that plain carpet, in
hat plain room, under that plain Ceiling
not a throne built out OF sapphires, that
fade. but out OF tho crystals OF
heaven. And that throne OF heavenly
flowers withered not; and tho queen
OF Christian love lived in that throne
until one day the twain, well in years, fclt
themselves called away, but knew not
which way to go, and then the queen
dismounted the throne and said; Follow
Mo, follow Me, and | will lead you 20 the
realm OF everlasting love - and so they won't
up, singing songs OF love, 10 live together In
mansions OF love and 10 rejoice forever in
tho truth that God is love.
Prosecutions by Dissenters
In "A review OF Mr.. John Browns reccut
LILO OF Bunyan," Tho London Spectator
says; ut Is not unreasonable that MIR.