Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29

be in your household. Let tho divine
blessing drop upon your every hope and
plan and expectation. Those young peo-
pie who begin with God end with
heaven. Have OH your right hand the
engagement ring of the divine affection.
If one of you be Il Christian, let that
one take the Bible and read u few verses
in the evening time and then kneel
down and commend yourselves to him
who setteth the solitary i'll families.
want TO tell you that the destroying
angel passes by without touching or en-
tering the doorpost sprinkled with
blood of the everlasting covenant. Why
is it that i'll some families they never
get along and in others they always get
along we'll? | have watched such cases,
and have come to conclusion. In the
first instance nothing seemed to go
pleasantly, and after awhile there came
a devastation, domestic disaster or es-
arrangement. Why? They started wrong.
In the other case, although there were
hardships and trials and some things
that had to be explained, still things
went on pleasantly until tho very last
Why? They started right.
The Angel In the House.
My second advice to you in your homo
is to exercise TO the very last POSSIBLE
ity of your nature the law of forbear-
ance. Prayers i'll the household will not
make up for everything. Some of the
best people in the world are the hardest
to get along with. There are people
who stand up i'll prayer meetings and
pray like angels who at home are un-
compromising and cranky. You may
not have everything just.as you want
it. Sometimes it will be the duty of
the husband and sometimes of the wife
to yield, but both stand punctiliously
on your rights, ard you will have a
Waterloo with no Butcher coming up
at nightfall to decide the conflict.
Never be ashamed TO apologize when
you have done wrong in domestic at
fairs. Let that be law of your house
hold. The best thing ever heard of my
grandfather, whom l never saw, was
this that once having unrighteously re-
buked one of his children, he himself
having lost his patience, and, perhaps
having been misinformed of the child's
doings, found out his mistake and i'll
the evening of the same day gathered
all his family together and said: CHOW,
I have one explanation to make and one
thing to say. Thomas, this morning l
rebuked you very unfairly. am very
sorry for it. Irebul.ed you i'll the pres
ence of tho whole family, and now ask
your forgiveness i'll their presence. 1t
must have taken some courage to do
that. 1t was right, was it not? Never
be ashamed to apologize for domestic
inaccuracy. Find out tho points-what
are the weak points, if may call them
so, of your companion, and then stand
aloof from them. Do not carry the fire
of your temper too near the gunpowder.
If the wife be easily fretted by disorder
in the household, let the husband be
careful where he throws his slippers.
If the husband come. home from the
store with his patience exhausted, do
not let the wife unnecessarily cross his
temper, but both stand up for your
rights, and will promise the everlast-
ing sound of the warwhoop. Your life
will be spent in making up, and mar
riage will be to you an unmitigated
curse. Cowper said:
The lsindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear
And something, every day they live,
To pity and perhaps forgive.
advise, also, that you make your
chief pleasure circle around about that
home. II is unfortunate when it is 9TH
erwise. If the husband spend the most
of his nights away from home of choice
and not of necessity, he is not the head
of the household. Hei only the cashier.
If the wife throw the cares of the house
hold into the servants lap and then
spend five nights of the week at the
opera or theater, she may clothe her
children with satins and laces and rib.
bons that would confound Il French
milliner, but they are orphans. 1t is
sad when child has no one to say its
PRAYERS to because mother has gone off
to the evening entertainment In India
they bring children and throw them to
the crocodiles, and it seems very cruel,
but the jaws of social dissipation are
swallowing down more little children
today than all the monsters that ever
crawled upon the banks of the Ganges.
have seen the sorrow of a goddess
mother on the death Of q child she had
neglected. 1t was not so much grief
that she felt from The fact that the
child was dead as the fact that she had
neglected it. She said, eff had only
watched over and cared for the child, l
know God would not have taken it. "
The tears came not; it was dry, bis
tering tempest-a scorching simoom of
the desert. When she wrung her hands.
it seemed as if she would twist her fin
gers from their sockets; when she seized
her hair it seemed us if she had, in
wild terror, srasred coiling serpent
with her right hand. No tears! Com
rades of the little one came il and wept
over the coffin; neiehbors came in and
the moment they saw the still face OF
the child the shower broke. no tears
for herl God gives tears as the summer
rain to the parohed SOUL but in all the
universe the driest and hottest, the
most scorching and consuming thing, is
a mothers heart if she has neglected her
child, when once it is dead. God may
forgive her, but she will never forgive
herself. The memory will siuk the eyes
deeper into the sockets, and pinch the
face and whiten the hair and eat up the
heart with vultures that will not be
satisfied, forever plunging deeper their
iron beaks Oh, you wanderers from
your home, 60 back to your duty The
brightest flowers in all the earth are
those which grow in the garden Of a
Christian household, clam bering over