Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-22

and see that house 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 out of heaven,
and others garner them for it. If your
religion, oh wife, is simply the joke of
the household, il you had rather 20 to the
theater than the prayer-meeting, If YOU
can beat all the neighbors in progressive
euchre, ii your husband never sees you
kneel at the bedside in prayer before re-
firing, If the only thing that reminds the
family of your church relations is that on
communion day you get home late to din
ner, you will not be able to take your
husband to heaven, for the simple reason
that you will not get there yourself But
| suppose that your religion is genuine,
and that the husband realizes there is in
your soul divine principle, and that,
though you may be naturally quicker
tempered than he is, and have many i'm
projections that distress you more than
they can any one else, still you are des-
tined for the skies when the brief scenes
OF this life are over. How will you take
him with your There are two oars to
that boat-prayer and holy example.
But you say he belongs to worldly
club, or he does not believe word of the
bible, or he is an lnebriate, and very
loose IN his habits? What you tell me
shows that you don't understand that
while you are at the one end of a PRAYER
the omnipotent God Is at the other end,
and 1t is simply Il question whether Al
mightiness is strong enough and keeps
His word
have no doubt there will be great
conventions IN heaven called for celebra
tive purposes, and when in some celes-
tial assemblage the saints shall be telling
what brought them to God, / believe that
ten thousand times ten thousand will
say "My wife"
/ put beside each other two testi-
monies 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 10 God some years before nv
self. prosecuted and abused her be-
cause OF her religion. She, however, re-
turned nothing but kindness constantly.
maintaining an anxiety to promote nv
comfort and happiness; and it was her
amiable conduct when suffering ill-treat-
ment from me that first sent the arrows
Va SohNlStlOu 70 my SOUL The other
testimony was from dying man: "Har-
riet, l am a lost man. You opposed our
family worship and my secret PRAYER
You drew me away into temptation and
to neglect every religious duty. | be-
lieye my fate Is sealed Harriet, You are
the cause of my everlasting ruin.j How
many glorious married couples in heaven
Adam and Eve, Abraham and sarah.
Lapidoth and Deborah, Isaac and Re.
bekah, Jacob and Rachel, Zacharlas and
Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary, and many
whom we have known as good as the
most of them!
AS once you stood in the village or CITY
church or in your fathers house, perhaps
under wedding bell of flowers, TODAY
stand up, husband and wife, beneath the
cross of pardoning Redeemer, while I
proclaim the bands of an eternal mar
riage. Join your right hands. | pro-
nounee you one forever. What God hath
Joined together let neither life nor death
nor time nor eternity put asunder. wit
ness men anG angels, all worlds, all ages
The circle is an emblem Of eternity. ana
that Is the shape OF the marriage ring.