Milford chronicle., 1904-06-10


: sacrifices of life in the golden coin o
=, minted love.
% Marriages. PrOmissOry Note.
!. But there is a promissory note con
l. nected with every marriage certificate
e which should compel a husband to give
= his love to his wife as well as his graft
/ tude for what she does. 1t was on ac-
8 count of this loving promise which he
. made to her that She a young girl. was
t 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
man who has won his bride upon the
promissory note Of love does not fulfill
his contract he is a Swindler as well as
an migrate; a deceiver a falsifier. a per
jurer, as we'll as one whose ideas of
gratitude are as monstrous and dis
7 torted as that Of the wayward son.
who would trample upon a mothers
/ bleeding heart and turn upon his IA /
/ theirs love. You believe a merchant is 1
dishonest who through the bankruptcy
court would repudiate a debt he could /
pay. Why will you not say a 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 embowered orange
blossoms:
This swindle in reference to prom
ised affections which a husband some
times practices upon Il wife is the more
contemplate because in one sense tile
wife is absolutely helpless after the
preparation of the fraud. Say what
you will, argue as you may. talk glow !
ingly and poetically and grandiloouent-
" about woman's opportunities. {
wite's opportunities have always been {
ana nearly always will be circum- J
'cribed by the four walls Of her home. Y
fhe husband has his outside business r
He has his mercantile y
riendS as well as his store friends. He
meets men on the street. in the cars. in
he office, behind the counter. He can g
'et away and does get away from the .
iome. But for the most part the wife d
anchored to the kitchen, the bed Ii
Dom and the nursery Of home by the d
hildren. Therefore If he fails her and "
efrauds her Of his promised love she IL
absolutely helpless and must suffer 10
lore than he can realize. she has F'
ractically no redress. for she has Civ w
a up her all for him If, however. on ke
count Of her husbands neglect SIT
lie turns her back upon him and 10
les forth TO meet the world as an in en-
pendent woman. then the world it. We
II will turn its back upon her. Just be
fore l began my Chicago pastorate a Ia
'ry prominent Pittsburg lady who Hl
ls divorced said to me: ION account 10y
the neglect and the inhumanities Of IN
brutal husband. for the protection OF We
vSelf and children. got a legal sepa- est
ton. But if ! had it all to do over the
ain | would bear any injustice AMI 10y
ner every brutality rather than get tin
iivOrce. The outside world does NOT lie
'k into the causes Of a family dis .ea
ption. but heartless people will al "A
Us look upon a divorced wife as on low
who has a black mark upon her pie
wv Oh, We faithless. unloving hus- so
lds. will yOu not be honest to your- love
YES and honest to your wives and chu
the promissOry note of love which
made when the minister pro
lnced you and your wife one until
tn do you part?" .
Broken Hearted Wives.
an you not hear the wailings and
Of broken hearted wives in the
'ds Of the poet Of Old:
Before I trust my fate to thee A
or place my hand in thine.
betore let thy future give Il
Color and form to mine.
Before peril all to thee. T
question thy soul tonight for me
Does there within thy dimmest
dreams L
possible future shine.
wherein thy life could henceforth L
breathe
Untouched. unshared BY mine9 81
II so, at any pain or cost
On. tell me before all is lost. A
the death knell Of a husbands -
i also hear the sObs of the broken u
Of a mother as well as of a wife
great dramatist wrote, '-Oh. sharp- The
AN serpent's tooth it is to have clerg,
kless child" Many a mother hos we
led this by bitter experience. Decat