The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-13
IN THE FAMILY.
Troubles and Comforts of
DOmeSdCity.
God Said It Was Not Well for
Man to Live Alone.
Sunday Evening Address by Rev.
Wallace Nutting.

Sunday Evening Address by Rev.
Wallace Nutting.
At the Union Congregational Church
last evening the Sunday address of Rev.
Wallace Nutting had for its theme
TROUBLES and Comforts in the Family"
The text was the sixth verse OF the 6sth
Psalm, "God setteth the solitary in fami-
lies" The address follows:
The institution Of the family is not
therefore to be ascribed to the devil, as
the comic newspapers would often imply,
1t was God who said that 1t was not well
for man to dwell alone.
At the same time there are troubles In
families. speak not only of the great
troubles that rend families apart, but OF
the less obtrusive difficulties which arise
in the best reg ulated.
1t is truly possible for anyone, II one
begins young, to avoid the troubles of
families by going away to live alone. /
may avoid the July heats by going to
Greenland as a permanent home. The
residence TO the United States, encounter
some troubles here which they know not
of. They would have the license ques-
tion, the tariff issue to encounter. And
il in midwinter they erected snow hut
undoubtedly they would be disgusted to
see 1t melt away on occasion of the first
thaw. But II would not be easy to per-
suade us that Greenland was preferable,
on these accounts. to Rhode Island.
Troubles being incidental to every condi-
tion in life We are to seek their avoidance
or at least smelioration in life rather than
in suicide or celebancy.
ltappears also that every trouble is the
right living
CAN OVERCOME THE TROUBLE.
and realize the Joy is the faith VIC bold.
And that true marriage-as i always
pray on the occasion OF wedding-may
divide the sorrows and double the Joys of
life Is what believe is possible and hap
pens in the majority OF cases.
An early difficulty sometimes arising in
the family, IL ] may judge from pastoral
experience, Is the discovery that the
man has not planned to make his home
the center, the core OF his life. He has
formed this home as one side Of life. He
does not always eat what he eats at
home, and he by no means drinks all
he drinks at home. There are some
friends be does not bring home. They
are not ladies' men, he says--by which
he means they would not pass for gentle
men In aforementioned society. There
ure some things, besides business,
which he claims to need. ana cannot
find, In company with his wifO q. home
or away from home-in her company.
None OF the ingenious excuses for club
life have ever been able to convince me-
oxx1 ~
worthy excuses, or that they rise to the
dignity OF reason. Drinking certainly
will not pass In extenuation of the club.
IL it is we'll to drink, the home is the place
for II. But 1t Is not-welL Gentlemen say
they desire to talk politics. They talk
1t too much, and to little purpose. The
political life has too large place in cur
rent literature. And IL it is pleasant for
gentlemen to come together in chat 1t is
so ALSO FOR THE LADIES'
Mems clubs, il they are legitimate, lead
lcgitimately to woman's clubs. And in
our largest cities this is what we have
come to. II women mistake this for
emancipation they deceive themselves.
For the Turks from time immemorial
have had women's clubs.
The true place of woman is not in erect
ing edifices for herself, or In collecting
her work by herself--that Is only weak
ness. She should put her work and
thought SIDE by side with that of men.
True societys noble society, includes
women, and club life, IL 1t Is to continue
and help, ought to be co-educational.
That IL, its gatherings and events should
find women in them or they should not
take place.
band or twelve apostles was mans club
the word sounds harsh here, but such
the organization was a club for religious
purposes. 1 do not, however find that
he formed any plan for the permanency
of such bodies. We do not observe that
the early church-organized by that very
band, had such copies of the apostolic
fellowship. Nor indeed did our Savior.
in going about go unattended by any ex-
cept the twelve, for we are informed that
devout women-relatives of Himself and
His disciples, followed them. And i'm
my humble opinion religious or social
organizations at the present time which
make no room for woman--or make 1;
only occasionally, are behind the ideas of
Jesus Christ. s r
This throws us back on the home. The
man who has not thought TO make home
the center has thereby disappointed his
young wife. She finds herself
THROWN BACK ON HERSELF,
put aside for n more interesting part OF
life. The remedy for this Is to be found
in bringing into the homo that which Is
not found there. IL IL will please the boy
to talk politics, let his friend or his
friends and their wives come In. The
English race has made much OF its home.
II may do still more In that line. III there
is any interest in literature, let 1t be
brought into the home. The libraries are
ready TO be drawn upon. A delightful
evenings recent memory--coDsisted of
n gathering at which a good reader pre-
sented us an Interpretation OF an English
classic. Our receptions are inane Affairs.
Somebody whp can do something should
always be present at them TO lead out
and up the senses OF the rest Of Us. II
we are tired let him make us smile; n
empty, he may give Us few ideas; el.
ways precious metal. But when
the husband goes out for the
fun of IL let him go with his wife. II
that spoils his fun he is but poor crea-