The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-11-05

J do, that wrong notions on the subject
of Christian marriage are the cause al
this day of more moral outrage before
God and man than any other cause.
: There are some things that 1 want
TO bring before you. know there are
those of you who have had homes set
up for great many years; and then
there are those here who have just es-
: tablished their home. They have only
5 been in that home few months or u
l few years. Then, there are those who
will, after awhile, set up for them
, selves home, and it is right that l
should speak out upon these themes.
My first counsel to you Is, have God
in your new home, IL it be a new home;
and let Him who was n guest at
bethany be in your households; let
the Divine blessing drop upon your
every hope and plan of expectation.
Those young people who begin with
God end with Heaven. Have on your
right hand the engagement ring of the
Divine affection. If one of you be a
Christian, let that one take the Bible
and read few verses in the evening
time, and then kneel down and COM
mend yourselves to Him who setteth
the solitary in families. ] want to tell
you that the destroying angel passes
by without touching or entering the
door-post sprinkled with blood of the
everlasting covenant Why is it that
in 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 devastation, domestic disaster,
or arrangement. Why? They start
ed 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
the very last. Why? They started
right.
Ny second advice to you in your
home is, to exercise to the very last
possibility of your nature the law of
forbcarance. Prayers in the house
hold will 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 in prayer-meet-
ings and pray like angels, who at
home are uncompromising and
cranky. You may not have every
thing just rs 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, and you will have Waterloo
with no Butcher coming up at night
fall to decide the conflict.
Never be ashamed to apologize when
YOU have done wrong in domestic af-
fairs. Let that be the law of your |
household. The best thing 1 ever
heard of my grandfather, whom /
never saw, was this: That once, hav-
ing unrighteously rebuked 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 in the |
evening of the same day gathered all |
his family together and said: Nov,
| have one explanation to make, and |
one thing to say. Thomas, this morn |
ing rebuked you very unfairly. / am |
very sorry for it. / rebuked you in |
the presence of the whole family, and |
now ! ask your forgiveness in, their
presence" 1t must have taken some |
courage to do that. 1t was right, was
it not? Never be ashamed to apollo
gize for domestic inaccuracy. Find |
out the 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 frctted 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 |
everlasting sound of the war-whoop. |
Your life will be spent in making up, |
and marriage will be to you an un-
mitigated curse. Cowper said:
The kindest and the happiest pair
VIII find occasion to forbear:
And something, every day they live,
To pity, and perhaps forgive.
have seen the sorrow of goddess
mother on the death of child she had
neglected. II 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: IF had only |
watched over and cared for the child. |
/ know God would not have taken it,"
The tears came not; il was dry,
clustering tempest-a scorching ST. |
moon of the desert. When she wrung
her hands il seemed as IL she would
twist her fingers from their sockets;
when she seized her hair, IL seemed as I,
II she had, in wild terror, grasped
coiling serpent with her right hand.
No tears! Comrades Of the little one
came in and wept over the coffin;
neighbors came in and the moment
they saw the still face Of the child the
shower broke. No tears for her. God
gives tears az the summer rain ~ the
parched soul; but In all the universe
the dricst and hottest, the most scOrcb.
ing and consuming thing IL mothers