The Yale expositor., 1898-10-28

ruin. There may be some things
which he does not wish to trouble his
wife with; but IL he dare not tell her,
he is on the road to discontinue. On
the other hand, the husband ought to
be sympathetic with the wifes occu-
patton. 1t is not easy thing to keep
house. Many a woman who could
have endured martyrdom as well as
Margaret, the Scotch girl, has actually
been worn out by house management.
There are a thousand martyrs of the
kitchen. 1t is very annoying, after the
Vexations OF the day around the stove
or the register or the table, or in the
nursery or parlor, to have the hus-
band say, "You know nothing about
trouble; you ought to be in the store
half an hour" Sympathy Of occupa-
ton! If the husbands work cover him
with the SCOT of the furnace, or the
doors of leather or soap factories, let
not the wife be easily disguised at the
begrimed hands of unsayory aroma.
your gains are one, your interests are
one, your losses are one; lay hold or
the work of life with both hands. -Four
hands to fight the battles; four eyes to
watch for the danger; four shoulders
on which to carry the trials. 1t is a
very sad thing when the painter has
a wife who does not like pictures. 1t
is very sad thing for a pianist when
she has husband who does not like
music. 1t is a very sad thing when a
wife is not suited unless her husband
has what Is called "genteel bust
ness" So far as l understand gen
teel business" It is something to which
a man goes at ten o'clock in the morn
ing, and from which he comes home
at two or three o'clock in the after
noon, and gets a large amount OF
money for doing nothing. That is,
believe, a "genteel business" and there
has been many a wife who has made
the mistake of not being satisfied until
the husband has given up the tanning
or the hides, or the turning Of the
banisters, or the building of the walls,
and put himself in circles where he
has nothing to do but smoke cigars
and drink wine, and get himself into
habits that upset him, going down in
the maelstrom, taking his wife and
children with him. There are good
many trains running from earth to
destruction. They start all hours of
the day, and all hours Of the night.
There are the freight trains; they go
very slowly and very heavily; and
there are the accommodation trains go
ing on toward destruction, and they
stoy very often and let a man get out
when he wants to. But genteel idle
ness is an express train Satan Is the
stoker, and death is the engineer; and
though one may come out in front OF
it, and swing the red flag of danger,
or the lantern of Gods Word, it makes
just one shot into perdition, coming
down the embankment with a shout
and a wall and a shriek-crash, crash!
There are two classes of people sure Of
destruction; first, those who have
nothing to do: secondly. those who
nave SOHlSNuiHS u uO, DuI WHO are boO
lazy or too proud to do 1t.
l have one more word of advice to
give TO those who would have a happy
home, and that is, let love preside in
ii. When your behavior in the do
nestle circle becomes a mere matter
of calculation; when the caress you
give is merely the result of deliberate
study of the position you occupy, hap
piness lies stark dead on the hearth
stone. When the husbands position
as head of the household is maintained
by loudness of voice, by strength of
arm, by fire of temper, the republic OF
domestic bliss has become a despotism
that neither God nor man will abide.
oh, we who promised to love each
other at the altar! how dare you COM
nit perjury? Let no shadow of sus-
picion come on your affection. 1t is
easier to kill that flower than it is
to make it live again. The blast from
hell that puts out that light, leaves
you in the blackness of darkness for
ever.