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that Christ and Christianity have done

that Christ and Christianity have done
for q woman. she can so again and again
20 hear such assaults she Is an awful erea-
tare, and YOU had better not come near
such reeking lepress She needs 20 be
washed. and for three weeks 20 he soaked
in carbohe acid. and for a whole year
fumigated before she Is ft for decent
society. While IL is not demanded that a
woman be a Christian before marriage,
she must have regard for the Christian re-
ligion or she IS a bad woman and un-
worthy OF being your companion IN life
charged with such stupendous solemnity
and vicissitudes.
What YOU want, q man! in a wife, is
not a butterfly of the sunshine, not a
giggling nonentity, not painted doll.
not a gossiping gadabout. not a mixture of
artificialties which leave you IN doubt as
70 where the humbug ends and the woman
begins. but an earnest soul, one that can
not only laugh when YOU laugh, hut weep
when you weep. There will be WIDE. deem
graves IN your path OF hfe, and YOU viii
both want steadying when you come 20
the verge of them, ] tell you. When your
fortune fails YOU will want some one 20
talk of treasures in heaven, and not charge
upon YOU with a bitter, Il told YOU so. y
As far as | can analyze II, sincerity and
earnestness are the foundation OF all
worthy wifehood Get that. and YOU get
all. Fail 10 get that, and you get moth.
ING but what you viii wish you never had
got.
Don't make the mistake that the man
Of the text made in letting his eve settle
the question in which coolest judgment
directed hv divine wisdom are all-im-
portant He who has no reason for his
wifely choice except a pretty face is like
a man who should buy farm because Of
the dahlas IN the front dooryard Beauty
4 4. 1 Il
tends n as a henedlctlon upon a woman's
face. When the good Princess Of Wales
dlsmounted from the rail train last sum
mer, and | saw her radiant face, I could
understand what they told me the day
before that, when at the great military
hospital where are now the wounded and
the sick from the Egyptian and other
wars. the Princess passed through, all the
sick were cheered az her coming, and those
who could be reused neither bv 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"
But how uncertain is the tarrying of
beauty i'm a human countenauce! Explosion
of a kerosene lamp turns IL into sacri6ca.
vitriol may dispel IT, or Time will drive
his chariot wheels across that bright face,
cutting II up in deep ruts and gullies. But
there is an eternal beauty on the face of
some women, whom n rough and ungal.
lant world NAV criticise as homelv; and
though their features NAV contradict all
the laws of Lavater on physiognomv, yet
they have graces of soul that will keep
them attractive for time and glorious
through all eternity.
There are two or three circumstances
in which the plainest wife is a queen OF
beauty to her husband, whatever her
stature or profile. BY financial panic or
betrayal of business partner, the man goes
down, and returning TO his home that
evening, he SAYS: 81 am ruined: | am
IN disgrace forever; | care not whether
! live or die II is an agtated story he
Is telling in the household that winter
night He says. THE furniture must
GO, the house must go, the social
position must go' and from being
sought for obsequiously they must be
d-shoudered everywhere. After he
ceases talking, and the wife has heard all
in silence, she SAYS: "1s that allS Why.
you had nothing when | married you, and
you have only come back to where you
started. If YOU think that my happiness
and that of the children depend on these
trappings. YOU do not know me, though
we have lived together thirty wears. God
is not dead and the National Bank of
Heaven has not suspended payment, and
u You don't mind. / don't care cent
What little we need of food and raiment
the rest of our lives we can get, and |
don't pronose 10 sit down and NOPE and
groan. Mary. hand me that darning.
needle | declare, I have forgotten to
set the rising for those cakes, And while
she is busy at i he hears her humming
Newton's old hymn. Tomorrow"
The husband looks up in amazement,
Ill q.
est woman ] ever saw. | thought you
would faint dead away when | told YOU"
And "a 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 plainest
wife is a queen of beauty TO her husband.
She has done the work of life. She has
reared her children for God and heaven,
and though some Of them may be n little
wild thev will yet come back. for God has
promised. She is diving. and her husband
stands by. Thev think over all the years
of their companionship, the weddings and
tho burials. the ups and the down, the
successes and the failures. They talk
over the goodness of God and His faith
fulness 10 chiidren's children. She has no
fear about going The Lord has sustained
her so many years she would not dare 10
distrust HIM now. The lips of both OF
them tremble as thev say good-by and en-.
courage each other about an early meeting
in a better world. The breath is feebler
and feebler. and stops. Are you sure OF it,
just bold that mirror at the mouth. and
see If there is any vapor gathering on the
surface Gone, AZ one Of the neighhors
takes the old man by the arm gently and
says Come you had better go into the
next room and rest he says wait
moment; ! must take one more look at
that face and at those hands" Beautiful.
Beautiful,
Nv friends I hope YOU do not call That
death That is an autumnal sunset That
is a crystalline river pouring into n crys-
tai sea That is the solo OF human life
overpowered bv hallelujah chorus. That is
queens coronation That is heaven
That j. the way my father stood at eighty.
two. seeing my mother depart at seventy.
nine. Perhaps so your father and mother
went / wonder II we will die as well
Prayer.