The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-07-22

wife.
In short, if this ancient record has
any lesson for our day it is that the
voice OF duty shall be needed quite as
cordially as the behests of passionate
love. However beautiful the palace
of love it must be built on the rock Of
duty. With solemn sort of irony
Mr.. Hardy has shown that one may
live happy though married but that
will prove to be far more than face
tious remark if the claims of homely
duty are ignored. If day by day hus-
band and wife are forgetful of the re.
quircmcnts Of duty their love VOWS
will echo in their lives like pcrjurles
aud the gorgeous plant of love shall
have worm at its root. But nothing
on earth is moro beautiful than to see
how Duty, when she has led US we'll
up the hill Of life, will turn and smile
and 10, it is love.
II. The second statement of the
text IS stout assurance that the true
wife when found will prove to be
good thing. Let us see what the char
acteristics we're Of this young woman,
Rcbekah, who is to become the mother
OF the chosen people Of God.
She was beautiful. There is no cf-
fort on the part of the inspired Book
to disparage the power of female beau
ty. Everywhere men love fair face,
and refuse to be reasoned ou, Of their
fondness for beauty, and without apol.
ogy they render homage TO female
loveliness. If woman has a lovely
face che should humbly esteem it a
divine gift for which she must render
an account to the great Giver. This
young woman in Mesopotamia was an
Industrious woman. She was at the
we'll for pitcher Of water. Ever 80
must be the good wife. "Her hus-
band shall have no lack Of gain No
man ever prospered without the con-
sent Of his wife. 'Her husband is
known in the getes when he sittetll
among the elders of the land" The
position of honor of every public man
is in no small way ascribablo to his
wife. Her interests are all bound up
iu his success. While Disraeli was
speaking in the House of Commons
holding his comreers by the magic
spell Of his elequence, looking now
aud then toward the gallery to receive
inspiration from the eyes Of one he
loved, no one there but herself knew
that as they were getting out Of the
cah her GnseT had been crushed by the
awkward driver in shutting the door.
She stifed dovn the pain lest the
knowledge Of her suffering might keep
her husband from making his best ef-
fort at that crucial hour. That was
heroism worthy of an angel, or, to
say the highest thing that can be said,
it was the unfaltering devotion of a
true wife. Heaven must have spe-
cial roll Of honor for these unselfsh
heroines who find their chief Joy in
walking in the sequestered vale that
their husbands may stand on SUMMER
heights. What husband is there who
has attained to any degree of success
who has not sometimes said to him.
self, with his heart in his mouth as he
looked at his wife:
"And she's a the world TO me-"
III. The last thought of the text is
the best Of all, and refers to the bless
ing which the Lord adds to the man
who inde the true wife. He siobtain.
eth favor Of tho Lord Can we not
all agree that such wife az is de-
scribed by the text is the gift OF the
Lord ? Then all men should 20 to
Providence for their wives. The in
formation we seek will not come in a
miracle, but means should be used
such as was done in finding Rebekah
There should be confident watching
for the pointings Of Providence. The
stewart might have asked for come
superstit. .ous sign by which he might
know the oung woman who was in.
tended for his Lord, such as the TAX.
ing of the one who might stumble on
the steps Of the we'll but rather he
asked for sign that would reveal the
character of tho young woman, such
as industry in coming to the we'll, an
accommodating spirit in drawing va.
ter for the camels, hospitality to stran.
gers and @ oompanionable nature.
There is no reason to doubt that nov
as then that the good Lord, who mum.
bers the hairs Of our head and marks
out the pathway Of life, will guide the