Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-04

Did Paul ever speak of money in ref
erence to the husbands duty to his
wife? No, he takes that for granted.
He says, Husbands, love your wives"
Bus that is not all. He gives his com
mandment in the superlative sense,
Husbands, love your wives even as
Christ also loved the church and gave
himself for it." All, could there be
any sweeter or more devoted or more
intense measure for 4 husbands af-
fections than that? 1t is love the true
wife longs for, as it is love the true
husband in the home should long for.
Not money so much as love, intense,
devoted. loyal, self sacrificing love.
Husbands pay your wives for their
sacrifices of life in the golden coin of
minted love.
Marriages. PrOmissory Note.
But there is a promissory note con-
nected with every marriage certificate
which should compel a husband to give
his love TO his wife as we'll as his graft
tude for what she does. 1t was on ac-
count of this loving promise which he
made to her that she, a young girl, was
persuaded to leave her fathers home
and turn her back upon her school
friends and, like Ruth, who followed
Naomi, go with her husband where he
went and lodge with him where he
lived and make his people her people
and his God her God. Therefore if a
man who has won his bride upon the
promissOry note of love does not fulfill
his contract he is a swindler as we'll as
an migrate; a deceiver, falsifier, a per-
iurer. as well as one whose ideas of
gratitude are as mOnStrouS and dis
torted as that Of the hayward son,
who would trample upon a mothers
bleeding heart and turn upon his ia
theirs love. You believe a merchant is
dishonest who through the bankruptcy
court would repudiate a debt he could
pay. Why will you not say husband
is dishonest and contemplate who
would repudiate the obligation Of
lifetime love, which he accepted when
he pledged himself to the young girl
by his side on his wedding day, when
they stood amid empowered orange
blossoms?
This swindle in reference to prom
ised affections which a husband some
times practices upon a wife is the more
contemplate because in one sense the
wife is absolutely helpless after the
preparation of the fraud. Say what
you will, argue as you may, talk glow
ingly and POLITICALLY and grandiloquent-
ly about W0man's opportunities,
wife's opportunities have always been
and nearly always will be circum-
scribed by the four walls Of her home.
The husband has his outside business
relationships. He has his mercantile
friends as we'll as his store friends. He
meets men on the street, in the cars, in
the office, behind the counter He can
get away and does get away from the
home. But for the most part the wife
! is anchored to the kitchen, the bed
| room and the nursery Of home by the
| children Therefore if he fails her and
| defrauds her of his promised love she
! is absolutely helpless and must suffer
more than he can. realize. She has
practically no redress, for she has Civ
en- up her all for him. If, however, on
| account Of her husbands neglect a
wife turns her back upon him and
| goes forth to meet the world as an in
| dependent woman, then the world it
self will turn it's back upon her. Just
before l began my Chicago pastorate a
very prominent Pittsburg lady who
was divorced said to me: ''On account
of the neglect and the inhUmanities, Of
a brutal husband. for the protection Of
myself and children, l got legal sepa-
ration. But if l had it all to do over
again 1 would bear any injustice and
suffer every brutality rather than get
a divorce. The outside world does not
look into the causes Of a family dis
rupti0n, but heartless people will al
ways look upon a divorced wife as On
one who has black mark upon her
Brow Oh, We faithIess. Unloving hus-
bands, will you not be honest to your
selves and honest to your wives and
pay the prOmissory note of love which
you made when the minister pro-
nounced you and your wife one until
death do you part?"
Broken Hearted Wives.
Can you not hear the wailings and
sobs Of broken hearted wives in the
words Of the poet of old:
Before trust my fate to thee .
Or place my hand in thine
Before l let thy future give
Color and form to mine
Before peril all to thee
Question thy soul tonight for me.
Does there within thy dinmest
dreams
A possible future shine
Wherein thy life could henceforth
breathe,
Untouched unshared by mine?
If so, at any pain or cost,
oh, tell me before all is lost
In the death knell of a husbands
love also hear the sobs of the broken
heart of a mother as well as of a wife
The great dramatist wrote, "Oh, sharp
er than serpent's tooth it is to have a
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