The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
For the Reporter.
The Good Husband and the Good
Wife.

Wife.
The following selections are from a
sermon preached in Brighton, Maine.
October II. 1874, from Proverbs Is. %.
"A word spoken in due season. how
good Is IL, by Rev. John Iicmmruwap.
and is published by request of ii Somer-
set lady.
How is it with you who have been
husbands ten, twenty, thirty. forty or
nifty years? Are you all IA trnderly
careful to speak kind words to your
wife rs you were before your marriage:
Many husbands fail to speak always in
gentle tones and words, not because they
do not love their wives, but because they
are troubled with cares, and labors, aud
vexations innumcrable, so that their
minds become nervous and weary. aud
they often speak contrary to the real
state of their affections. But the hus-
band should carefully guard against
such II wrong practice. He should al.
ways be as kind and good to his wife As
he Is III his conscience. If the husband
Is often sharp and peevish in his words
to his wife. he appears to give her reason
to fear that he does not love her H. ten
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No doubt many Il husband really loves
his vile With a purer and "A warmer
llection, and regards her With higher
steem than he did before she took his
lame for her own. and he would far
more deeply now lament her death than
before She became his wife. and vet he
is less careful to speak a kind word TO
her in due season than he was before
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All many Il husband has wept in
agony over the grave OF his wife in keen
remembrance of uukind words hastily
spoken, and for not speaking colnfort-
ing word To her when she was suffering
for such Il word to give her strength TO
bear her labors and her SORROWS. And
now husband be careful every day of
your life TO speak Just such words to
your wife as will be comforting to you
to think of. if you should be called to
mourn her departure from earth. Oh
husband be sure always to speak kind
words to your Wife Iovr wife may
soon he taken from You forever GU
cannot call her your own only from
minute To minute. Cherish her in the
tenderest love as the choicest gilt in all
creation flom your God. What triiles
are all the gold and the glory of this
world compared with good wife.
Another class of persons who should
aud who often do speak good word in
due season are wlNeS| How many hus-
bands they have saved 10y their sweet
ana gentle words from Encouragement,
Bankruptcy. vice and ruin. \ man must
be II monster of WickedneSs who madlv
persists in rushing down the broad road
to temporal and spiritual ruin who is
st with n kind and good wife. But
the wife should always be "a anxious
aud careful 10 speak pleasant and alice
tionatr words to her husband rs she was
in her youthful days before she became
ms VIE, She should be cheerful in the
presence of her husband. And though
her person may aud must, if she lives
pass away from its morning freshness
and beauty, and her step lose its spright-
Col. she can and should be youthful in
her mind. even down to old age. And
she must be as desirable to keep the
good opinion OF her husband. and to
please him in little rs we'll as great
things. as she was before She accepted
his hand his name rs his wife. and
therefore all her words to him should be
gentle, kind aud respectful. \ wise and
good word from Il wife TO her husband.
will often give him hope and courage.
and lift him mp from dependency under
his heavy load of pcrpeXiug cares aud
worldly embarrassments. and give him
M"'iueI 10 ,,lll'stIi' some men are so
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