The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-29

o post sprinkIed with Dloou OF the
everlasting covenant Why is it that
in some families they never get along,
and in others they always get along
we'll? Ihave watched such cases and
have come TO q conclusion, In the
first instance, nothing seemed to go
pleasantly. and after a while there
came q devastation, domestic disaster
o r arrangement Why? They started
wrong. In the other case, although
there were hardships aud 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 10 you in your
home Is To exercise TO the very last
possibility OF your nature the law Of
forbeArance. Prayers in the house.
hold 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 in
prayer-meetings aud pray like angels.
who at home are uncompromising and
cranky. You may not have every
thing just as you want IL Sometimes
IL 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 q 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 a law OF your house.
hold. The best thing l ever heard Of
my grandfather, whom / never saw,
was this: that once, having upright
eously rebuked one OF his children, he
himself having lost his patience. and,
perhaps having been misinformed OF
the ehild's doings, found out his mis-
take, and In the evening OF the same
day gathered all his family together,
and saidJ'Now, l have one explana-
tion TO make, and one thing to say.
Thomas, this morning l rebuked you
very unfairly. am very sorry for It
l rebuked you in the presence Of the
whole family, and now / ask your for.
giveness in their presence" 1t must
have taken some courage to do that
1t was right was it not? Never be
ashamed to apologize for domestic in.
accuracy. Find put the points; wha,
are the weak points, II l may cal
them SC, Of your companion, and then
stand aloof from them. Do not carry
the fire Of your temper too near the
gunpowder. II the wife be easily
fretted by disorder in the household
let the husband be careful where h,
throws his slippers II the husband
come home from the store with his pa
thence exhausted, do not let the wifi
unnecessarily cross his temper; bu.
both stand up for your rights, and
will promise the everlasting sound o
the war-whoop. Your life will b
spent In making up, and marriage viii
be to you an unmitigated curse.
|, l advise, also, that you make you
chief pleasure circle around abou
that home. II is unfortunate when /
Is otherwise. II the husband spen,
= the most Of his nights away frou
home, Of choice, and not Of necessity
, he is not the head of the household; b
is only the cashier. II the wife throy
: the cares Of the household into tn
I servants lap, and then spend hv
r nights Of the week at the opera O
theater, she may clothe her ehildre
with satins and laces and ribbons tha
! would confound a French millinel
but they are orphans. II is sad whe
e q child has no u TO say Its prayers I
9 because mother has gone of TO tn
I evening entertainment In India the
I bring children and throw them TO tn
( crocodiles, and 1t seems very crue
e but the jaws OF social dissipation al
swallowing down moro little childre
: to-day than all the monsters that eve
crawled upon the banks Of the GangeI
, ] have seen the sorrow Of a Rodlei
mother on the death OF u child she ha
/ neglected. IL vas not SO much griI
that she felt from the fact that Ii
e child wa dead rs the fact that 81
d had neglected IL She said. III Iha
g only watched over and cared for II
e child, / know God would not ha,
taken IT," The tears came not; II WI
a dry, ~blistering tempest-a scorchir
4 simeon OF the desert. When 81
u wrung her hands IL seemed as II 81
would twist her fingers from the
sockets; when she seized her hair,
|. seemed as II she had, In wild terro
q grasped a coiling serpent with h
right hand. No tears! Comrades
n the little one came In and we
e over the coffin, neighbors came in al
the moment they saw the stI
face Of the child the shower brok
Z Ep tears for her. God gives tea
1 as the summer rain 10 the parch,
4 soul bnt in all the universe the drie
K and hottest the most scorehing 81
a consuming thing is o mothers heart
she has neglected her child, when on
II is dead God may forgive her, b
o she will never forgive herself II
a memory will sink the eyes deeper In
II the sockets, Rpd pinch the face, Of
d wbiten the hair. and eat pp the hea
n with Vultures that will not be Statistic
forever piunging despeH tDelT "
! beaks. o, You wanderers from yo
8 home, go back 10 your dutyi 7
. brightest flowers in all the earth Q
those that grow in the garden Of
n Christian household, clambering oy
q the porch Of u Christian home.
I advise also 10 cultivate sympat
y of occupation. Sir James McInto,
IA one Of the most eminent and elega
- g,ep that ever lived, while standing
y The soy height OF his eminence, 81
. 70 a great company Of scholars: "a
wife made me.P The wife ought to
the advising partner in every FIR
She ought TO be interested in all I
y losses aud gains OF shop and store. S
" ought 10 have a right-she has a rig
~ =p know everything. II a man 2,
y, into D business transaction that
{" dare not tell his wife Of. you may