Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-03-03

the old hOuSe long ago was pulled. dow
and its occupants scattered never to NEE
until in the higher home, that awaits tn
families of the righteous. While there ar
more good and faithful wives and mother
now than there ever were, society has go
a wrong twist on this subject, and there ar
influences abroad that would make wome1
believe that their chief sphere is outsd
Instead of inside the home.
Hence in many households children in
stead of blessing are a nnisance. 1t i
( card-case Uersus ch,ld's primer, carriag,
rersus cradle, social popularity versu
domestic felicity. Hence infantcide an,
ante-natal murder are SO common that all tn
physicians alIopathic, hydrophaiic, homeo
psihic aud eclectic, are crying out in hOr
FOR, and it is time that the pulpits ioinet
with the medical profession in echoins
and re-echoing the thunder of Mount Sinai
which says: "Thou shall not kill" anc
the Book Of Revelation which says, Gal
murderers shall hive their place in tn,
lake which burneth with fire and brim
sfa"n And the man or woman who take,
J life a minute old will as certainly q
straight to hell as the man or woman VIII
destroys life forty years old. And the
widest, loudest Shrek of Judgment Day
will be given at the overthrow of thost
| who moved in the high and respected circles
| of earthly siciety, yet decreed by Their
own act, as far as they Gould privately ef
| feet ii, the determination of the advaucing Z
generations, abetted in the horfid crime
| by a lot Of internal quacks with which
| modern medicine is infested. When, on
the last day, the criers of the court shall
with resounding s'Oyez, '''oyez p declare
| the ''oyer and terminer" of the universe
opened, and the Judge, with gavel of the
thunderbolt, shall smite the nations into
silence, and the trial of all the fratricides,
and parricides. and matricides. and patri-
cides and decides, and infanticides of the
earth shall proceed, none of my hearers or
TT aders can say that they knew NOT what
they were ding Mighty God Arrest
the evi that is overshadowing this century
charge you, my sister, that you take
your husband along with you to heaven
OF course this implies that you yourself are
d Christian. | must take that for granted
1t cannot be possible that after what Chris
tian5y has d''ne for woman, and after tax
ing the Lfiultely responsible position you
have assumed at the head of the household
that you should be in : position antagonis-
tic to Christ. 1t was not slip of the
toug ue when spoke of yon as being at the
head of the hous .hold. We men rather
pride ourselves MS being at the head of the
household but it is only pleasant de-
usion. TO whom do tho children go when
Shey have trouble? When there is sore
finger to be bound up ertoue of the first
teeth that needs to be removed to make way
for one that is crowdng it out, to whom
does the child go? For whom do children
cry out in the night, when they get fright
ensd at Il bad dream? Aye, to whom does
the hubsand go when he has business
trouble, great or too delicate for Out>i
ears? We, the men, are heads of The
household in name, but you, o wives are
the heads of the household in fact, and it
is your business to take your husband with
You into the kingdom of God and see that
horse prepared for heaven.
You can do it? OF course Gods al
mighty grace alone can convert him, but
you are to be the instrument. Some wives
keep their husbands oat of heaven and
others garner them for it. Ifynur religion,
0 ~ife, Is simply the j Ike IF the hou ehold,
if you would ratter go to tn. THEATRE than
the prayer-meeting, if you Can beat all the
neighboshoo in progressive euch 9. if your
hu- band never sees you kneel at The bed-
side in prayer before retiring if the only
thing hat reminds the family of church re-
ations is that on communion day you get
home late to dinner, you will not be able
to take your husband TO heaven, for the
simple reason that vou will not get there
yourself. But l suppose that your religion
is genuine and that the husband realises
there is in your soul a divine principle, and
that, though you may be naturally quicker
tempered than he is aud have many impe.-
fecii i,ns that distress you more than they
can any one else still yOu are destined for
the skies when the brief scenes of this life
are over. How will you take him with
you? There are two oars to that b1at
PRAYER and holy example.
But you say he belongs TO a worldly club,
or he does not believe a word of the Bible,
nr he is an inebrIate aud very loose in his
habi.s. What you tell me shows that YOU
don't understand that while you are at the
one ~~,-a of a prayer, the omuipotent God is
Al tho other end. and it is simply question
whether Almig ghtiness is strong enough
aud Ike ps His word
l have no doubt there will be great con-
venlious in heaven called for celebrative
Purposes. and when In some Celestial assem-
bl.ge the saints shall be telling what
brought them to God, l believe that ten
thousand times ten Thousand will say, ''My
lie. -
put beside each other two testimonial S
of men concerning their wives, and let you
see the contrast. An aged man was asked
The reason of his salvation. With fearful
emolion be said: sMy wife was brought
to God some years befnro myself per-
secuted and abused her because If her re-
ligion. She, however, returned nothing
but Kindness constantly, maintaining an
anxiety to promote my comfort and hap
piness; and it was her amiable conduct
when suffering ill-treatment from me that
first sent the arrows of conviction to my
soul. The other testimony was fron
i ding man: "Harriet am lost man
You opposed our f.miIy worship and nv
secret prayer. You drew me away inta
temptation aud to neglect every religions
duty. I believe ray. fate is sealed. H"r-
riel, you are the cause of my everlasting
ruin" How many glorious married
Abraham and Sarah, Lapidoth and De.
,rah. Isaac and Rebekah, Jacnb and
Rachel. and Zschariss and E IL ,betb.
Joseph and Mary, and many whom we
we have known as good as the most OF
them
AS once you stood in the village or city
church or N your fathers house, perhans
under a wedding bell OF flowers, TODAY
stand up, husband and wife, beneath
the cross OF a pardoning Reedemer, while |
proclaim the bAnns of au eternal marriage,
Join yolr right. hands pronounce you
one forever What God hath j ,ined to.
gether let neither life nor death, nor time
nor eteruity put asunder. Witness men
and ang,ls. all worlds, all ages The cir.
Gle il an emblem of externity, and that is
the shape of the Marriage ring. =
BRADY, GEO. D. WISE, AND BoUTELLE
The Washington CORES pendent of ths
.kexandra G.izette, Elder date of the TIL
ST., says
"Congressman Brady, of Virginia, during
THE debate "n the Fitz John Porter bill III
the House last night, got in his speech in
rebutt,l of that of Mr.. Wise ON the Nor
folk Navy Yald matter. Mr.. W,se, it i.
understood, VIII reply at the first oppor
tuuiuy, and, it is sad. will suDsiantiate ev
cry statement he made by docSmentary evi
dence, some. that of the commaudant, ant
some that Of Mr.. Brady hi hself. In the
naval committee room of tbe House yester
day evening ap,. excesdinsfy heated dispute
oecprda and MIR. Bou
r A.. l.