The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-04-24

ness. How can. any nuIndn DeluS, VIM
knows neither of the two parties as God
knows them. and who is ignorant OF the
future. give such directions as you re-
quire at such a crisis:
Take the advice of the earthly match.
maker instead of the divine guidance, and
YOU may some day be led to use the words
of Solomon, whose experience in home life
was as melancholy as it was multltudlnous.
One day his palace, with its great wide
rooms and great wide doors and great
wide hail. was too small for him and the
loud tongue of woman belaborlng him
about some of his neglects, and he re.
treated to the housetop to get relet from
the fungal bombardment. And while there
he saw a poor man on one corner o! the
roof with a mattress for his only furnl'
ture, and the open sky his only covering
And Solomon envies him and cries out:
1T is better to dwell IN the corner OF the
housetop than with a brawling woman IN
a wide house. And one day during the
rainy season the water leaked through
the roof of the palace and began to drop
in pail or pan set there to catch 1t. And
at one side of him all day long the water
went drop! drop! DROP while on the
other side a female companion Quarrellng
about this. and quarreling about that; the
acrimonious and petulant words falling on
his ear in ceaseless peiting-drop! drop.
drop! and he seized his pen and wrote:
"A continual dropping in very RAINY
day and a contentious woman are alike.
If Solomon had been as prayertul at the
beginning of his life as he was at his
close. how much domestic ln1eIcity lie
would have avoided!
But prayer about this will amount to
nothing unless you pray soon enough.
Wait until you are fascinated and the
equilibrium of your soul is disturbed by
magnetic and exquisite presence, and then
YOU will answer your own prayers, and
YOU will mistake your own infatuatlon Tor
the voice OF God. -,
Ii YOU have this prayerful spirit you will
surely avoid all female scoffers at the
Christian religion: and there are quite a
number of them in all communities. 1t
must be told that, though the only IN
fiuence that keeps woman from being
estimated and treated as a slaye-aye. as
a brute and beast of BURDENS Christi
anity, since where it is not dominant she
is so treated; yet there are women VINO
will so far forget themselves and forget
their God that they will go and hear lee
turers malign Christianity and scott at the
most sacred things of the soul. A good
woman, over-persuaded by her husband.
NAV 90 once to hear such TRADE against
the Christian religion, not fully knowing
what she is going to hear; but she Will
not go twice.
A woman, not Christian, but re-
specter of religion. said to me: u was
persuaded by my husband to go and hear
an infidel lecture ence, but going home
I said to him: My dear husband,
would not go again though my decllnatlonIl
should result in our enforcement forever,
And the woman was right. III after all
that Christ and Christianity have done
for woman, she can go again anu again
to hear such assaults, she Is an awful crea-
ture, and YOU had better not come near
such a reelsing lepress. She needs to be
washed, and for three weeks to be soaked
in carbolic acid. and for a whole year
fumigated. before she is fit for decent
society. While it is not demanded that
woman be a Christian before marriage,
she must have regard for the Christian re-
ligion or she is bad woman and un-
worthy of being your companion IN HE
charged with such stupendous solemnlty
and vicissitudes.
What you want, o mantoin a wife, IS
not butterfly of the sunshine, not a
giggling nonentity, not painted doll:
not gossiping gadabout, not mixture Oh
artifcialities which leave you in doubt as
begins. but an earnest soul, one that can
not only laugh when you laugh, but weep
when YOU weep. There will be wide, deep
graves in your path of life, and you will
both want steadying when you come to
the verge of them, tell you. When yorr
fortune fails You will want some one to
talk of treasures in heaven. and not charge,
upon YOU with bitter, Il told you So
Don't make the mistake that the man
of the text made in letting his eye settle
the question in which coolest judgment
directed by divine wisdom are all-im-
portant. He who has no reason for his
wifely choice except pretty face Is ike
man who should buy farm because OF
the dahlias in the front dooryard. Beauty
is a talent, and when God gives 1t lie m
tends it as benediction upon womaEs
face. When the good Princess OF Wales
dismounted from the rail train last sum,
mer, and l saw her radiant face, | could
understand what they told me the day
before, that, when at the great military
hospital where are now the wounded ana
the sick from the Egyptian and other
wars. the Princess passed through, all the
sick were cheered at her coming, and those
who could be reused neither by doctor nor
nurse from their stupor, would get up on
their elbows to look at her, and wan and
wasted lips prayed an audible prayer:
God bless the Princess OF Wales. Doesn't
she look beautiful
The husband looks up in amazement,
and saws. "Well, well. you are the great
est woman / ever saw. / thought You
would faint dead away when told you"
And as he looks at her all the glories OF
physiognomy in the Court OF Louis XIV,
on the modern fashion plates, are tame as
compared with the superhuman splendors
of that woman's face Joan of Arc, Mary
Antoinette, and La Belle Hamilton, the
enchantment Of the Court of Charles III,
are nowhere.
There is another time when the planest
wife is a queen of beauty to her husband.
She has done the work OF hfe. She has
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