The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-28

the determination of the advancing generations,
abetted in the horrid crime by lot of Internal
uuacks with which modern medicine is infested.
When. on the last day. the criers of the court
shall. with resounding "Oyez," "Oyez," declare
the ,.Oyer and Terminer" of the universe
opened, and the Judge, with gavel of thunder
bolt shall smite the nations into silence, and the
trial of all the tratricides. and PARTICLES, and
matricdes, and patricides, and uxoricides, and
regicides, and decides. and infanticides of the
earth shall proceed, none of my hearers or read
ers can say that they knew not what they were
doing Mighty God! Arrest the evil that is
overshadowing this century.
charge. my sister. that you take your hus
band along with you to heaven. OF course this
implies that you yourself are Christian. must
take that for granted 1t cannot be possible that
after what Christianity has done for women, and
after taking the infinitely responsible position
you have assumed at the head of the household,
that you should be in position antagonistc to
Christ. It was not slip of the tongue when l
spoke of you as being at the head of the house
hold. We men rather pride ourselves as
being at the head of the household, but
it is only pleasant delusion To whom
do the children go when they. have troubles
When there is a sore finger to be bound up or
one of the first teeth that needs to be removed to
make way for one that is crowding it out, to
whom does the child go9 For whom do children
cry out in the night when they get frightened at
bad dream2 Aye to whom does the husband
delicate for outside ears? We the men, are
heads of the household in name, but you .
wives, the heads of the household in fact, and
it is your business to take our husband with you
into the kingdom of God and see that house pre-
pared for heaven.
You can do it! OF course Gods almighty grace
alone can convert him. but you are to be the in
strument. Some wives keep their husbands out
of heaven, and others garner them for it. 1t
your religion, 0 wife, is simply the joke of the
household th0atGr
than the prayer meeting, it you can beat all the
neighborhood in progressive euchre. If your hus-
band never sees you kneel at the bedside In
prayer before retiring, if the only thing that re-
minds the family of your church relations is
that on communion day you get home late to
dinner, you will not be able to take your hus-
band to heaven, for the simple reason that You
will not 60 there yourself But an0a
and that the husband realizes there is in your
soul divine principle, and that. though you
may be naturally quicker tempered that he is,
and have many imperfections that distress you
destined for the skies when the brief scenes of
this life are over. How will you take him with
you2 There are two oars to the boat-prayer
and holy example.
Butyou say he belongs to worldly club. or
he does not believe word of the Bible, or he is
an inebriate and very loose in his habits9 What
you tell me shows that you don't understand
that while you are at the one end of prayer
the omnipotent God is at the other end, and it
is simply a question whether Almightiness is
strong enough and keeps His word.
have no doubt there will be great conven
tons in heaven slled for celebratve purposes,
and when in some celestial assemblage the saints
shall be telling what brought them to God, be-
leve that ten thousand times ten thousand will
say, my wife"
1 put beside each other two testimonies of men
concerning their wives and let you see the con-
trast. An aged man was asked the reason of his
salvation With fearful emotion he said: "My
wife was brought to God some years before my
self. / prosecuted and abused her because of
her religion. She, however. returned nothing
but kindness constantly, maintaining an anxiety
to promote my comfort and happiness; and it was
her amiable conduct when suffering il-treatment
from me that first sent the arrows of conviction
to my SOUL"
The other testimony was from dying man
Harriet, am lost man. You opposed our
family worship and my secret prayer. You drew
me away into temptation and to neglect every
religious duty. believe my fate is sealed. Har
riet. you are the cause of my everlasting ruin"
How many glorious married couples in heaven
Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Lapdoth
and Deborah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and
Rachel, Zacharias and Elizabeth, Joseph and
Mary, and many whom We have known as good
the most of them.
AS once you stood in the village, or city church,
or in your fathers house, perhaps under wed.
ding bell of flowers, to day stand up husband and
wife beneath the cross of a pardoning Redeemer,
while proclaim the banns of eternal marriage.
Join your right hands. l pronounce you one
forever. What God hath joined together let
neither life. nor death, nor time eternity put
asunder. Witness. man and angels, all worlds,
all ages. The circle is an emblem of eternity,
and that is the shape of the marriage ring.