The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-01-31
A GOOD WOMAN.
The Ready Counsel of a Faithful
Wife Holds the Husband from
Danger, Disaster and Sin.
A Man Who Asks Not Woman's Love
Is a Monst,r-He Who Expects
None, a Child of Despair.
A. SERMON TO BACHELORS.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in
hcr.--Prov. gen.
Men are moved by exhibitions of
power. They are affected by social
changes, which leave their mark in the
world. Hence they pause to moralize
over the death of statesmen and heroes,
over scholars and millonaires, but few
have devoted time and thought and
eulogy to their estimate of a good wife
good mother-a good woman.
As the light OF home is almost the
only radiance which cheers the darkness
ofmans lot, King Solomon turns aside
to pronounce benediction on her who
presides at that altar. Ordinarily it is
the office of divine truth to weaken our
trust in earthly blessings. Trust not in
man." Put not your trust in princes"
Crust not in uncertain riches These
are divine injunctions Human friend
ships are treacherous. Wealth is too
cold to fill warm heart. Fame hangs
on breath OF air and comes and goes
rises and falls by the caprjces OF crowd.
God ordinarily represents all earthly
things as vanity, but in this text there
seems to be an exception in favor of
faithful wife.
In the deep, full affection of the faith
ful wife the husband finds that apprecia-
ton and inter- st which every soul covets.
This stimulates his enterprises, makes
him brave in peril and cheers his hard
labor; and what luxury 1t is fra man
to feel that in his own home there is a
true and faithful being in whose pes
ence he may throw off restraint without
danger to his dignity, in. whom he may
confide without fear of treachery, and be
sick or unfortunate without being aban-
doned.
Common friends are linked to us by
slender thr, adj. We must retain them
by ministering in some way to their
interest or their enjoyment. AS we cam
not always retain them in this way, like
summer birds they are liable to come
and go-to be coolest when we most
need sympathy-and absent and indif-
ferent when we most need their support
God covets the love of his creatures,
and man made in Gods image, Graves
the love of others as essential to his own
happiness. The man that asks no love
is a monster; the man who expects none
is child of despair. There may be
hearts so frozen by selfishness or ossified
by pride and egotism or paralyzed by
Disappointment, as to be Indifferent to
affection; but these are icebergs drifting
in darkness on polar seas, cold, barren
and desolate.
The faithful wife gives care and neat
ness to our dwellings and so regulates
our tables, our couches and our apparel
as to administer to our comfort, caters
to our appetites and swelters in heated
kitchens for our indulgence; and often,
unthanked and unblessed. plies the
needle all the lone afternoon for our
benefit And is she not an angel of
mercy as she watches by our couch in
sickness, furnishes the ready napkin, the
bandage for our wounds, the cup for our
thirst, the medicine for our aches and
pains bears all our irritations and moves
with muffled step when we slumber?
In ordinary affairs within her province,
the judgement Of wife is rather an
inspiration from Him who ordained
THAT by her counsel she shonld be a
helpmate for man." Plate was embar-
raised in the struggle b tween his sense
of justice aud his desire Of popularity,
but his wife said at once: "Have nothing
to do with that just man." Had he
needed her counsel, Pilates hands would
not have been stained with the blood of
the Son OF God. How often the ready
counsel OF faithful wife holds the hus-
band from danger, disaster and ruin, and
a wise man will often seek her counsel.
Again Solomon says prudent wife is
things at real value, he says, "Who can
find virtuous woman for her price is
far above rubies." The poet has well
described her in the following lines:
squire in her aim and in her temper mild,
Her wisdom seems the weakness of child;
She makes excuses where she might condemn,
Reviled by those who hate her prayers tor them.
Suspicion turks not In her artless breast,
The worst suggt sted, she believes the best
Not soon provoked, however sluTed and leased
And, IL perhaps made angry, soon appeased
She rather valves than will dispute her right,
And injured makes forgivness her delight"
OBSERVER.
Stephensport, Ky.
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