The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-02-10

should speak out upon these themes.
My first counsel tD you Is, have Jesus In
your new home, II it be 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. II one Of you be
Christian, let that one take Bible and
read few verses in the evening time, and
then kneel down and commend yourselves
to him who setteth the solitary in families.
want to tell you that the destroying
angel passes by without touching or enter
ing the door.post sprinlled with blood Of
the everlasting covenant. Why is it that
In some families they never get along, and
In others they always get along wellp 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 arrangement. Why? They started
wrong. In the other case, although there
were hardships and trials, and some things
that had to be explained, still things went
on pleasant until the very last. Why?
They started right.
My advice to you in your home is to ex-
ercise to the very last possibility of your
nature the law of forbearance. Prayers in
the household will not make up for
I everything. Some of the best peo-
tple in the world are the hardest to get
along with. There are people who
stand up in prayer meeting and pray
like angels, whom at home are uncompro-
missing and cranky. You may not have
everything just as you want 1t. Some
times it will be the duty of the hus-
band and sometimes of the wife to yield;
but both stand punctiliously on your
rights, and you will have Waterloo
with no Blucher 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 l ever heard of
my grandfather, whom never saw, was
this: That once having unrighteously re-
buked one of his 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 l rebuked you very
unfairly. am very sorry for it. 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. 1t was right,
was 1t notS Never be ashamed to apollo
gize for domestic inaccuracy. Find out
the 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 near
the gunpowder. II the wife be easily
fretted by disorder in the household
let the husband be careful where he
throws the slippers. II the husband comes
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 win promise the ev
erlasting 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
VIII find occasion TO forbear;
And something, every day they live,
To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Iadvise, also, that you make your chic
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is unfortunate when IL is otherwise. II thu
husband spend the most of his nights away
from home, Of choice, and not Of necessity
he is not the head Of the household; he Il
only the cashier. II the wife throw the
cares Of the household in the servants
lap, and then spends five nights Of the weel
at the opera or theater, she may clothe heI
children with satins and laces and ribbon,
that would confound a French milliner
but they are orphans. Oh, IL is sad wher
child has no one to say its prayers to
because mother has gone off TO the evening
entertainment! In India they bring chill.
dren and throw them to the crocodiles, and
it seems very cruel; but the jaws of New
York and Brooklyn dissipation are swal.
lowing down more little children to-day
than all the monsters that ever crawled
upon the banks of the Ganges!
have seen the sorrow Of goddess moth.
or on the death of a child she had neglect.
ed. II was not so much grief that she felt
from the fact that the child was dead as
the fact that she had neglected it, She said
"If had only watched over and cared fol
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taken it," The tears came not; II was q
dry, blistering tempest-a scorching simoor
Of the desert. When she wrung her hand.
1t seemed as II she would twist her fingers
from their sockets; when she seized hei
hair II seemed as IL she had, in wild terror
grasped coiliDg serpent with her righ
hand. No tears Comrades Of the littl'
one came in and wept over the coffin
neighbors came In, and the moment they
saw the still face Of the child the shower
broke. No tears for her. God gives tear
as the summer rain TO the parched soul
but in all the universe the driest and hot.
test, the most scorching and consuming
thing is a mothers heart IL she has neg.
lected her child, when once II Is dead. God
may forgive her, but she will never forgiv,
herself. The memory viii sink the eyes
deeper into the sockets, and pinch the face
and whiten the hair, and eat up the hear
with vultures that will not be satisfied
forever plunging deeper their iron beaks
o, you wanderers from your home, &c
back to your duty! The. brightest flowers
in all the earth are those which grow In
the garden OF Christian household, clam
bering over the porch of Christian home
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