Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-01-28

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Effectiveness they had when thoy used to brag
how many masculine affections they had
: slaughtered. Forslkcn of God and honest
men and good women arc sure TO be all such
masculine and female trners with human
and yet immortal affections. Oh man, oh
woman, having plighted your troth, stick
to it'll
And hero my idca widens and have to
say not only to those who lave made mis-
take in solemn promise OF marriage, but to
those who have already ut tho altar been pro-
nounccd one when they arc two, or i'll diver
sity of tastes and likes and dislikes are
neither one nor two but dozen-mnke the
best you can Of an awful mistake And here
let me answer letters that come from every
state Of the American Union, and from
across tho sea, and nro coming year after
year from men and women who are terrific
ally allianced and tied together in hard
knot, very Eurd knot. Tho letters rum
something like this: "lThat ought to do,
my husband is. u drunkard!n 'My wife is
CAD about and will not stay ct homc.n
'My companion is ignorant and hates books
and 1revel in them" II like music and
pinno sets my husband crazy" II am fond
of socinl,lifc and ny. companion is a reclusc."
81 am trying to DO good and my life long u.s.
sociate is very bad What shall L do2 Z, My
answer there's Icertain good sons for
enforcement Tho Bic Teces nizes theni.l'
Good society recognizes them. tut it must.
10 the very last resort, and only after oil
reasonable attempts at reclamation and I'D
justment lavo proved n dead failure. When
such attempts fail it is generally because of
mcddlcsonc outsiders, ard women tell the
wronged wife how she ought to stand on her
rights, and men tell the wronged husband
how no ought to stand on his rights And
let husband and wife in hr unhappy mar
riagc relation stand punctiliously on their
rights, and there will bs 10 read justmcnt,
and only one thing will be sure to them, and
that is he'll on GARTH
If you arc unhappily married, in most
cases advise You to make the best you can
of IN nwfully bad bargain. Do not project
your peculiaritt,s moro than is necessary.
Perhaps you may have some faults Of your
own which the other party in the marital al
lance may have to suffer. You are in tho
same yoke. If You pull aside the yoke will
only twist your neck. Better pull ahead.
Tho world is full OF people who made mis-
takes about many things, and among
other things about bctrothal and mar
ringe, and yet have been tolcrably
happy and very useful in tho strength
Of God, and by the grace promised
in every time of need if those who seek it
conquer tho disadvantageous circumstances.
to contemplate men, and genial men yoked
with tcrmagants inspired Of tho devil. And
yet under these disadvantages my friends are
useful and happy God helps people in other
kinds of nartyrdom and to sing in the flame,
and he will help you in your lifelong misfor-
tune.
Remember the patience of Job. What a
wife lie had At Il time when he was one
great blotch Of crrptons, and his property
was destroyed by tornado, and, moro than
oil, bereavement had come and tho poor man
needed all wise counsel, she advises him to
go to cursing and swearing. She wanted
him to poulticc his boils with blasphemx.
But he lived right on through his marital
disadvantages, recovered his health and for
tune and raised splendid family and the
closing paragraph of tho Book of Job has
such jubilanco that wonder people do not
oftener read it:
$50 the Lord blessed the latter ond of Job
moro than his beginning, for he had four
teen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels,
and thousand yoke of oxen, and
thousand she asses. He Ind also seven
sons and three daughters And he called the
namo of the first Jemima, and the name of
the second kezia, and tho name OF the third
Kerenhappuch And in all tho land were no
women found so fair rs the daughters of Job,
and their father gave them Inheritance among
their brethren. After this lived Job one
hundred and forty years, and saw his sons,
and his sons sons, even four generations
So job 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,
thon you cnn stand it by the same divine
reinforcement. You hnvo other relations,
oh woman, beside the wifcly relation II you
orc o mother, train up your children for God
and heaven. If You are member of
church, help move on its enterprises. You
Gun get SO much of the grace of God in
your heart that all your homo trials will
seem insignificant. How littla difference
docs it make what your unrighteous husband
calls you, if God calls You his child and
you arc an hcircss of whole kingdoms beyond
the SKYE
Inncrso yourself in some kind of outside
usefulness, something that will enlist your
prayers, your sympnthics, your hand, your
needle, your voice. Get your heart on fire
with love to God and tho 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, oh woman
-. Do,,1 o,.,Iai,,,c in hic lattor n thn Cor.
inthians: "What knowest thou, oh wife,
whether thou shalt save thy husbandp And
if you cannot save him you can help in the
grander, mightier enterprise OF helping save
tie world. Out of the awful mistake Of your
marriage rise into the sublimeSt life Of self
sacrifice for God and suffering humanity.
Instead of settling down to mope over your
domestic woes, enlist your energies for the
worlds redemption.
Some parts of Holland keep out the ocean
only by dykes or walls of stout masonry.
The engineer having these dykes i'll charge
was soon to be married to maiden living i'll
one of tho villages, the existence of which
depended on the strength of these dykes.
And there was to be o great feast in one of
the villages 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 thou
sands of lives in the villages shell
tered by that stone wall The ocear
was in full wrath, beating against the dykes,
and the tides and the terror were still
ity.rg. .sShall I go to the feast,' says the
engineer, 'or shall I so and help my work
men take core of the dykesF' "Take care OF
the dykes" he said to himself; ~ must and
will AS he appeared on the wall the men
working there were exhausted and shouted:
Here comes the engineer. Thank Godl.
Thank God!" The wall was giving way,
stone by stone, and the engineer had rope
fastened around his body, and some of the
workmen had ropes fastened around their