Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-10-14

ana yet the principle holds good, that it is
right to please God rather than men.
whether it be right to obey God or man
judge ye;" while religion divided them, they
were not to deny the faith for mans sake. nor
were they to be divorced for the gospels sake.
The apostle gives wise answer, win the men,
win them for God, truth and heaven; the an
swer is heavens answer to earths difficulties;
win them by placing those Goals of fire on
their heads that melt the heart; follow Christ,
and win your impenitent husband by the
force of your christian character; give him no
cause to say aught against your faith. We
need not stop here to inquire, why the wife is
a believer, and the husband is not. Such is
often the case; let the cause be what it may.
The case is not an imaginary one, every true
christian wife asks how shall lead my hus-
band to Christ; and it would seem that re-
ligion which fails to produce such an inqui-
ry, can have but very little vitality. When
the minister fails to bring home the truth
with saving power to the heart, only one re-
mains, who can draw nearer with that truth,
and with more effectually; and that one is
the wife, whom he has covenanted to cherish
and love. But we must mark more particu-
larly the man of the text. He is not an un-
believer because he is ignorant of the chris
tain faith; or a heathern; but one who has
heard the gospel, but never obeyed it. That
if any one obey not the word, then to that
word is the wife's influence to be united. The
idea is, that if they regarded not the gospel
when preached, or if they would not attend
where it was preached, then they must be
won. Men often go to the club room or Office
while the wife goes to worship alone; these
things occur every Sabbath days for many
husbands are Indifferent, negligent or hostile
toward the truth. Said the apostle, win them
without the truth. What grand thought, a
wife winning her husband, SO living as to
convince him of the truth of these things. We
dustry. We hear of others who are success
full in political contest. We hear of others
who win in the contest of strength and skill
Of others who win their brethren from the
path of ruin. But here it is a wife, by her
pure and devoted life, winning her husband
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by christian influence, to the house of God,
and leads him by the sweet influence to the
gates of heaven. Some times that which we
| have won disappoints us, some times tpleas-
es only for season, there is no winning on
earth, that brings more lasting reward than
that of winning souls. Not simply brother
gained, but a partner in life made to rejoice
with her in like hope; united in Christ. We
are told that these are to be won without the
word. We are not to suppose, that the writer
meant any dishonor to the word; nor that he
advises the wife to follow her husband in the
ways of doubt, and skepticism. But that the
preaching of the word, in this case was not
the immediate instrumentality; it was to be
through another influence than that of
preaching. It cannot be denied but women
often ask for preachers, who can arouse their
sleeping husbands, and while they are wait
ing for some evangelist to come along, they
forget that they may be won, not by the
word, but by wife's christian influence.
The truth is the instrument always, but there
are various ways of using truth. Said James
of his own will begat he as with the word of
truth. Christ prayed sanctify them through
the truth, thy word is truth. While you
preach without the word, you are not to
speak againt the word. The power that is
brought to bear on an impenitent husband
is not preaching, or lecturing, for some men
are lectured to death, but the convincing
power of christian life, showing forth the
fruits of the spirit, that he may know the vir-
tue of that tree under whose shadow he rests.
You often hear it charged that the wife is the
cause of her husbands ruin; the poor man is
to be pittied for being SO weak and driven by
wife onto the rugged rocks along life's voy.
.. age; such may be the fact, but have you for
gotten on the other hand, how that wife's
influence has made man virtuous, prosper.
GUS and happy; yea more, that she has exerted
her power over him, so as to win him for GOD
and the kingdom of heaven; an unbelievine
, husband is charge; charge to be won;
and weak must that faith be, that never thorwf
about him the sweet influence of a christian
, woman's life, which are like so many invisi
BILE cords, whose touch is pleasing, ant
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, mans heart be, who resists these sacred in
fiuences year after year, and is dead to the
pleadings of pure heart, and devoted wife
Can we believe that the men are SO hostile te
christianity that they cannot be won? Ir
!, some cases this may be, but in many caset
the fault is with the influence. Do they 60 tc
church, what has been done to win them te
the church. You must impress on theil
minds, the interest you have, that the yoke ii
!, easy and the burden light; your service is q
, willing service, that your religion brings
peace to your mind, JOY to your heart and in
spires hope in your soul. They are not wor
by complaining, not by fault-fnding, not by
murmuring, not by gossiping, but won by
your christian spirit, forced but sweetly
forced to turn and live; never let it be said,
, by your husband as it was said by the man IL
!, the parable: Ihave married wife and there
fore cannot come. Let your heart go up to
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the earth; that they who obey not the wore
+ may without the word be won by the conver
, sation of their wives.
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