Milford chronicle., 1901-11-01

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= quisluye world. TnanK GOD for the home
= ID which we were born, the home in
2 which we now live, the home in which
i we expect to die!
The Wife's Influence
Not sufficiently do we recognize the
i sweet influences of the wife. We men are
Of rougher mold, and our voice is loud
and our manners need to be tanned. and
genteness is not as much of a character
lstie as it ought to be, and we often say
things we ought to take back. 1t is to
change this that the good wife comes in
The interests of the twain are identical
mat which from outsiders would be con-
sidered criticism and to be resented he
comes kindly suggestion, sweet influences
that make us better men than we other
wise would have been or could have been
The last chapter of Proverbs recop-
Mes the good wife's influence when II
says, Her husband is known in the gates
when he stitch among the elders of tho
land"-that is, his apparel indicates FIAT
ne has some one to look after his ward
robe, and his manners show that he is
under refining influences at home. Rut no
one FULLY appreciates the sweet Influences
OF the wife until the dark day comes and
the slight symptoms become serious and
the serious phases of the disorder mass
into the fatal and the temperature is 1O6
aLd medical ingenuity is exhausted and
! you are told for your consolation that
While there is life there is hone" which
means that there is no hope at all. and
the precious life flutters and is gone and
you must put out of sight the one who
from the day she tosk the vow amid the
orange blossoms under the marriage baU
| Lad been to you more than all the world
besides. Then you realize as never before
( what had been the sweet influences.
sweet influences of friendship If We
nave behaved ourselves tolerablv we'll. wa
nave friends. In our days of mirth thew
come with their congratulations. In times
OF sorrow they come with expressions Of /
soiace' In times Of perplexity they come
WIN their advice. They are with us at
Weuulhgs and at burials. II there is any |
thing good in us, they find it out and onr
Irailues they overlook or excuse. If |
something appears against us, they sev |
wait till hear the other side" If dis. |
aster shall befall us, we know from
whom would come the first coincidence
family friends, church friends, business
friends, lifelong friends In our heart of
hearts we cherish them.
sweet influences of our holy religion.
surrounded as we are by all the ameni-
ues OF Christian society men and women
VINO nave felt the refining and elevatinp
power Of the gospel! Sweet influences Of
the Sabbath, ffty-two of them Ginning
their joy into every year! Sweet intlu-
ences of the Scriptures, with their balm
Tor all wounds and their light for every
darkness! When the heirs of vast es-
tate in England wished to establish their
claim to property worth 500 OOOOOO
they offered reward of $500 for the re-
covery Of an old Bible, the family record
of which contained the evidence reouisite
But any Bible. new or old, can help us to
vaster inheritance than the one spoken
OF, one that never fades away
The World of Reunion.
The sweet influences of the heavenly
world, which many wise men thought for
a long while was Alcyone, the center Of
the constellation of the Pleiades, world Of
our future residence. as we hope; world
of chorus and illumination. world of re-
union, world where we shall be everlost-
ingly complete, world where our old fac
ultles will be intensified and Quickened
and new faculties implanted world of
hlgh association with Christ, through =
whose grace we got there at all, and
apostles and pOets-Habakkuk and st.
John of PatmOs and Edward Young. his :
Night Thoughts" turned into eternal
day and Horatius Bonar of modern [
hymnology and Hannah More and Mrs. t
liemans and Mrs. SigOurney, who struck
thelr harps till nations listened, and Da-
wa the victor over Goliath with what =
seemed lhsuihclent weapons, and Joshua
of the prolonged day in Gideon. and
HavelOck, the evangelist hero. and those
thousands of men of the sword who
fought on the right side. What company
to move in! What guests to entertain!
What personages to visit! What choirs
to chant! What banquets with lifted
cnalices filled with ''the new wine of the
Kingdoms! What victories to celebrate! l
Inc stories of that world and its holy
nharties come in upon our soul some =
times in song, sometimes in sermon. some
times IN hours of solitary reflection, and
they are, to use the words of NV text
sweet influences. But there is one star
that affects us more with its sweet inAu-
ences than the center star, the Alcvone
OF the Pleiades, and that is what one BIZ
Gle author calls the Star of Jacob and an
Dther Bible author calls the Morning Star.
VI all the sweet influences that have ever
.Ouched our earth those that radiate from
Chrst are the sweetest. Born an Asiatic
'lllager IN mechanics home, living
more among hammers and saws and
planes than among books, yet at twelve
years of age cOnfOunding rObed eeclesias-
lcs and starting out on a mission under
which those born without optic nerve
took IN the clear daylight, and those af-
hcted with unrespOnsive tympanum were
made to hear, and those almost doubled
up with deformities were straightened
INTO graceful pOise, and the leprous be- =
came rubicund, and the widows only son
exchanged the bier on which he Law life,
ess for the arms of his OverjOyed mother. L
md pronouncing nine benedictions on the L
Mount of Beatitudes and doing deeds and II
speaking words which are filling the CEN a
uries with sweet influences. Christ start q
I'd every ambulance, kindled every cleo =,
nc ray, spread every soft hospital pillow
lnd introduced all the alterations and a
and rescues and mercies Of =
Ill time. He was the lOveliest being who u
ever trod our earth, more beauty in his y
'ye, more tenderness in his manner. moro =,
sentences in his fOotstep, more music in II
us voice. more dignity in his brow. more o.
gracefuness in the locks that rolled upon .
us shoulders, more compassion in his
soul
Sweet influences of the Holy Ghost
With all his Transforming and COMFORTING =
ind emancipating power. When that
lower is fully felt, there will be no more II
lns TO pardon and no more wrongs 70 4
orrect and no more sorrows to comfort
.hq no more bondage to break. But as =
he old time ship captains watched the Z
Using of the Pleiades for safe navigation
ND set sail in Mediterranean waters. bu+ =
we're sure to get back into port before n
ne constellation Orion came into sight.
he season of cyclone and hurricane, 50
mere Is time to sail for heaven. and r
nat is while the sweet influences are
pon us and before the storms overtale H
he delay. Open all your soul to the light
M warmth and comfort and inspiration
I that gospel which has already DeoDIed
eaVen with millions of the ransomed and
helping other millions to that glorious A
esunatlon. DO not postpone the things
God and eternity till the storms of life 81
woop and the agitations of a great I'm
ure are upon us. Do not dare wait until q,
ynon takes the place of the Pleiades
elgh anchor now and with chart unroll-
ana pilot on board head for the re-
mons and raptures that await all the
Duls forgiven. And they need no candle.
either light Of the sun, for the Lord God
lveth them light, and they shall reign
brewer and ever"