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been if you can then no longer speak to

in the home. BE not bitter against
Them" is an apostolic injunction.
/ There is too much of these in many
homes, and these things when once
/ rooted have a rank growth. Here is
a little word picture | have formed
of what occurs in some homes, perhaps
only few: .'Ah. the eternal nagging
and fault finding and carping that go
on in many family. Every little per-
sonal habit, every little harmless. pet
indulgence, every ingrained trait on
either side, comes in for Fostering
fire of unpleasant remarks that prick
and scarify and sting until that bouse
is no more fit to live in Tran patch
of nettles is for a tired mans bed.
Even some Of the Lords people, if they
do not go as far as this, sometimes
manifest a spirit something like 1t.
have read even of a minister who in ar
ranging his toilet for pastoral calls
found a button gone from his shirt col
lar and all at once his patience left
him. He fretted and scolded, and said
undignified and unkind things, until
the tired wife burst into tears and es
capped to her room. The hours of the
afternoon wore away, during which the
pastor called upon old brother Jones,
who was all bowed down with rheuma-
tism, and found him patient and ever
cheerful; upon young brother Hall,
wasting away with consumption, and
found him anxious to go and be with
Christ; upon good old grandmother
Smith, in her poor, miserable howell of
home, and found her singing one of
the good old hymns, as happy as
bird The minister went homo filiad
with what he had seen and heard; and
in the evening, as he was sitting in
his home, with his wife near, busy with
her needle, he said What a wonder
full thing grace is, Wonderful. Il
can do all things" Then the wife
said: Yes, it is wonderful; but there
is one thing it does not seem to have
power to do" What is that, said the
husband. why, it does not seem to
have power to control a minister's tenn
per when a shirt button is gone" That
was, TO him a new version of the doc
trine of grace. Oh, how much grace is
required to live out the teachings of the
bible in our honest We talk and pray
about our living honestly and upright
~ with our fellow-men. We need to
pray even more that we may be low
ms hlIiQ Odl lOl, olI <iliS
as it may seem, it requires more grace
to live a good Christian life in the be-
loved circle of home than in public.
Sam Jones says in his eccentric but
pointed way: It's ten thousand times
harder to be just than generous. 1t is
easy enough to give a ,,Cor woman d
dollar, but when it comes to follow a
straight line, being just in all things,
just to God, to your family, to your
children, to all men, it is a different
thing. Some men are never just to
their wives. They pay their cook five
dollars very willingly Saturday night,
but when the Woodworking, economical,
painstaking wife asks for a little mon
ey on Monday the brute will say, ooh,
wife, what do you want with money!"
There are men who meet
neighbours wife on the street and take
off their hats and bow, and smile SO
sweet and tenderly, and then go home
and wound their own wives with their
tongues, clever to all wives but their
own. And so it is with some wives.
They are all smiles and kind words in
company, and cut their husbands to the
heart with their tongues. l
don't scold; If l do 1 intend to scold
mebOdy'S else Wife.
When these directions for the home
life are needed, home lives ripen to-
gether, and the home here becomes
more and more like the home beyond.
This little idyl Of life among the lowly
appeared in the New Orleans "Pica-
yune'': IAN aged colored woman, liv
ing in the suburbs Of this city, was
taken suddenly Ill short time ago. Her
husband, an old e-haired negro be-
came alarmed, and Immediately sent
fora physician. When the physician
arrived he was met at the door by the
old negro, who addressed him as fol-
lows: God bress you for comm, Aunt
Milley gibs up all hope, an says she's
gwine ter die. JUS say dat you sabe
her, and I'll pray for you cherry night.
Yves bin married fifty years ago ter
day. an Yves nebber had a cross word
tween u.s. The old woman was too
far gone ever to recover, and in short
time her soul passed. quietly away to
that undiscovered country from whose
bourne no traveller returns When her
death was made known to the old ne
gro. he was taken suddenly i'll, and died
soon after His last words We're, God
has heerd my prayer, for l sees Aunt
Milley comm for to help me cross de
ribber'" One is reminded of the lines
of Robert Burns:
John Anderson, my 10, John,
We clamb the hill thegither;
And mony a cantry day, John,
We've had wi ane anither.
Now we maun totter down, John.
But hand in hand We'll go;
And sleep thegither at the foot,
John Anderson, my 1o
Oh, how wonderful and far-reachlng
are the influences of home, and how
important that these sources of infiu-
ence should be pure and holy! President
Cleveland in one Of his messages, in
speaking upon the Mormon question,
said: The strength, the perpetuity and
the destiny of the nation rests upon our
homes. established by the law of God,
guarded by parental care, regulated by
parental authority, and sanctitied by
parental love"
1t is said that in the spring of 1868
two great armies were encamped on
either side of the Rappahannock River,
one dressed in blue, the other in gray.
AS twilight fell the bands of the Union
side began to play THE Star Spangled
Banner and Rally Round the Flag
and that challenge of music was taken
up by those on the other side, and they
responded with THE Bonnie Blue Flag"