The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-01-27

and are coming wear after year from men and
women who are terrtcaly allianced and tieo
together in a hard knot, a very hard knot.
The letters run something like this: What
ought | to do, my husband is drunkard'
'sMy wife is a CAD about and will not stay at
home" "My companion is ignorant aud
hates books and | reyel in them" Il ike
music and a piano sets my husband crazy"
81 am fond of social ife and my companion
is recluse." Il am trying to be good and
nv lifelong associate is very bad. What
ought to do!n My answer Is, there are GER
tain good reasons for enforcement. The BlolS
recognizes them. Good society recognizes
them But it must be the very last resort, aud
only after all reasonable attempts at reclama-
tion and adjustment have proved a dead fall
ure When such attempts fail it is gener-
ally because of meddlesOme outsiders, and
women tell the wronged wife how she ought
to stand on her rights, and men tell the
wrOnged husband how he ought to stand on
his rights. And let husband and wife In an
unhappy marriage relation stand punctIlllous-
~ on their rights and there will be no read
Justment and only one thing will be sure to
them aud that is hell on earth.
PATIENCE WORKS WONDERS.
If you are unhapDlY married, in most cases
| advise you, make the best you can OF an
awfully bad bargain. Do not project your
pecuiarities more than is necessary. Per
haps you may have some faults of your own
which the other party in the marital alliance
may have to suffer. You are in the same
yoke. If you pull aside, the yoke will only
twist your neck. Better pull ahead. The
world is full of people who made mistakes
about many things, aud among other things
about betrOthal aud marriage, and yet have
been tolerably happy and very useful in the
strength of God aud by the grace promised III
every time of need if those who seek 1t con-
Quer the Instantaneous circumstances. l
am acquainted with lovely women married TO
contemplate men, and genial men yoked
with termagants inspired of the devil. And
yet under these disadvantages my friends are
useful and happy. God helps people in other
kinds of martyrdom and to sing in the flame,
and He will help you in your lifelong mis-
fortune.
Remember the patience of Job. What
wife he had At a time when he was one
great. bOtch of eruptiOns and his property
was destroyed by tornado and, more than
all, bereavement had come and the poor man
needed all wise counsel she advised him to
go to cursing ard swearing. She wanted him
to pOultice his bOilS with blasphemy. But he
lived right on through his marital disadvan-
tages, recovered his health and his fortune
aud raised splendid family and the closing
paragraph of the book of Job has such a jubi-
lance that | wonder that people do not oftener
read it.
BLESSINGS FROM THE LORD.
$50 the Lord blessed the latter end of job
more than his beginning; for he had fourteen
thousand sheep and six thousand camels,
and thousand yoke of oxen, and thousand
she asses. He had also seven sons and three
daughters. And he called the name of the
first Jemjma, and the name of the second
KeZia, and the name of the third Kerenhap-
puch. And in all the land were no women
found so fair as the daughters of Job; and
their father gave them Inheritance among
their brethren. After this lived Job hundred
and forty years, and saw his sons, and his
sons sons, even four generations. So he died,
being old and full of days"
Now, my badly married friend of either sex,
If Job could stand it by the help Of God, then
you can stand it by the same divine re-en-
fOrcement You have other relations. 0
woman beside the wifely relation. If you are
a mother, train up your children for God and
heaven If you are a member OF a church,
help move on its enterprises. You can get
SO much of the grace of God in your heart that
all your home trials will seem insignificant.
How little difference does it make what your
unrightous husband calls you, if God calls
you his child and you are an heiress of whole
Kingdoms beyond the SKY.
immense yourself in some kind of outside
usefulness, something that will enlist your
prayers, your sympathies, your hand, your
with love to God and the disenthrallment of
the human race, and the troubles of your
home will be blotted out in the glory of your
consecrated life. | cry out to you, o woman,
as Paul exclaims in his letter to the COrnthi-
ans: "What knowest thou, 0 wife, whether
thou shalt save thy husbands Aud if you can
not save him you can help in the grander,
m ghter enterprise of helping save the wO rid.
Out of the awful mistake of your marriage
rise into the sublimest life of self sacrifice for
God and suffering humanity. Instead OF set
ting down to nope over your domestic woes,
enlist your energies for the worlds redemp-
ton.
THE NOBLE ENGINEER
Some parts of Holland keep out the ocean
only by dykes or walls of stout masonry.
The engineer having these dykes in charge was
soon to be married to a maiden living in one
of the villages, the existence of which de-
pended on the strength OF these dykes. And
there was to be great feast in one of the vii
lagos that approaching evening in honor of
the coming bridegroom. That day a great
storm threatened the destruction of the dykes,
and hence the destruction Of thousands of
lives in the villages sheltered by that stone
wall. The ocean was in full wrath, beating
against the dykes, and the tides and the ter
ror were still rising. shall 60 TO the feastf'
saws the engineer 'or shall | 90 and help nv
workmen take care of the dykes" Take care
of the dykes" he said to himself, Il must aud
will" AS he appeared on the wall the men
working there We're exhausted and shOuted
''Here comes the engineer. Thank God!
Thank Godr' The wall was giving away,
stone by stone and the engineer had
and some of the workmen had ropes fastened
around their bodies and were let down amid
the wild surges that beat the wall. Every
thing was giving away. "MOre stones" cried
the men. More mOrtarw But the answer
came: There is no mOreIn Then" cried
the engineer. take off your clothes and with
them stop the holes In the WALL And then
in the chill and darkness and surf ii was done,
and with the workwens apparel the openings
in the wall were partially filed. But stll the
tide rose and still the ocean roared itself for
more awful stroke and for the overwhelm-
ing of thousands of lives In the villages,
down on your knees. NV men, and pray to
God for help" And on the trembling and
parting dykes they PRAYED TIL the wind
changed and the sea subsidized. and the viii
lagos below, which knowing nothing Of the
peril. were full Of romp aud dance and hilarity
were gloriously saved.
HAPPINESS IN TIE FUTURE.
Now, what want in this work of walling
back the oceans OF poverty and drunkenness
and impurity and sin IS the help Of more wo-
manly and manly bands. o. how the tides
come In! Atlantic surge of sorrow after At
lantic surge of sorrow, and the tempests OF
human hate and satanic fur, are In full cry.
O. woman Of many troubles, that are all the
feasts Of worldly delight II they were offered
YOU compared with the opportunity OF helping
build and support barriers which sometimes
seem giving way through mans treacherT aud
Ia ~gs-1H' aaFYf@a n . Ev-Er.