Milford chronicle., 1904-06-10
Ca(maQe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, DID.

days Of widespread separation and di
voree, and when the integrity of the
home is assailed from without and
within, the advice of the preacher who
takes love for his theme may help to dis
pei the clouds that now overhang many
household. The text is Ephesians
v 20, Husbands love your wives"
Two startling facts about Paul's per-
sonality have always vividly impressed
me. The one is the estimate of his
physical personality formed by his en-
emies in the COrinthian church who
had sat under his ministry and there
fore knew him well. Paul himself
tells us that they said, His bodily
l ence is weak and his speech con
temr' Bile Chrysostom, according to
Albert Barnes, declared that "Paurs
stature was low, his back crooked and
lis Le.rd bald" According to Nice
phorus, Paul was little man with
cu"Fature of the spine and a pale
countenInce. long and wrinkled. and
with % Lead like Julius Caesar, noted !
for its scarcity of hair Whether these I
descriptions are true we know not:
but it is little likely that the Corin-
thians would have spoken of him as 1
they did and that writer's so near his /
own time as ChIysOstOm and NicephO-
rus would have so described him. if
this intellectual and spiritual giant had
possessed an imposing personality. And
yet all through the Pauline writings.
figures Of speech bristle with the
symbols Of the athletes arena. The
runner, the fighter, the gladiator, the
struggle with the beasts Of Ephesus !
all have their Inspirations and gospel
teachings
The second fact, which stands side
by side with the first, about the per q
sonality of Paul is this: Paul was a j
bachelor. 1t has been contended that t
he was a member of the sanhedrin L
and. if so. must have been married. o
but the expression in Acts XVI. 10. on a
which the theory Of his membership d
Is based, is vague and may have h
10 no more than the testi. st
mony Of q witness. On the other hand. | ri
his argument in | Corinthians tx. ,. ',
clearly implies that both he and Bar p
laDas were unmarried. This condi- Il
ton, however, by no means indicates ca
hat he was deficient in the affection v;
lte side Of his nature. His letters HI
nov that he lavished on his children ~
n the faith the love that other men NJ
1--WE 10 their offspring and that he was tn
IN exceedingly affectiOnate. warm pl
earted man. He taught parents that
hey should love their children and tri
hildren that they should care for their We
arents. wives that they should honor l
heir husbands and husbands that they ge
lould love their wives It is I'm refer IN;
nee to this last commandment that I WI
.ould speak today. ad
Marital Affection. me
There is special reason at this time an
'r showing the need of a husband cal
eng truly devoted and loving to his J
ife, because there seems to be a pop. sue
ar theory abroad that the old fash cot
ned idea Of a family home is gone wO
III gone forever. But. instead of be- fine
wing that the old fashioned idea OF anL
We should be done away with. 1 be- up
we that like the garden beds which dor
ed to be planted in our ancestors thr,
Dnt yards. they should be cultivat. up
more and more Marital affection WI
~ be old fashioned. but believe If DO
one of the nOblest. finest most beau a b
nj things in life. What could he self
're tender, more pathetic, than the coll
'fds uttered by the great DR.. Thomas mar.
Wit when, struggling with un me
liable grief. he stood by the open won
I'VE In which he had Just laid the peri
rtal remains of his beloved Wife: men
said; Farewell. my beloved and WhC
iored and faithful wife. The tic way
I united Us is severed. Thou ar, lowe
"a Jesus in glory, and he is with cam
by his grace. | shall soon be with now
- Farewell" The Holy Book de perie
'es. Whose flndeth wife findetb abou
d thing" 1t is no part Of my pur alwa
TO tell young men how they 'JohI
lld proceed in trying to win the and
ctionS Of the girls they desire =, succC
ry. NV design rather is 70 r-,, | my
ried ucn to show their wives m, own
e. Difference, the same love and de
on. that characterized them befor, k
twain stood at the marriage altar tathe
ing and saying the solemn word. Know
'h made them one flesh. was
by is the true wife's value above Ialm
price Of ruhies. as King Solomon moth'
'rCd: She is her husbands busi. reterc
parturr' her husbands equal in can s.
. aS well as in heart power. She TO the
with him. in a financial way the SO
great battle of life: therefore. like we Ia
.uS5aud. she has a right to expec. owe IL
ame rewards for her labors thai gained
IS for his. 1t has been the habh Men
me cynics TO represent a wife a, going
re- parasite. a hanger on. cling sacrlh
ine barnacle or a human leecl ON,
ng ont the life's blood of her mas full d
: partner. Polygnotus. the grea. her
in artist, painted her 426 B. c money
our legged beast in THE Rope o. is yer!
=" devouring all the labors Of be, out yol
I'd, while he works on and op own pl