Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-06-11

Naomi go with her husband where ne
went and lodge with him where he
lived and make his people her people
and his God her God. Therefore II
man who has won his bride upon the
nromissory note of love does not fuihi
his contract he is a swindler as well as
an ingrate; deceiver, falsiner, per-
iurer as well as one whose IDEAS oi
Gratitude are as monstrous and dls-
torted as that Of the wayward son.
who would trample upon molher
bleeding heart and turn upon his Ia
ther's love. You believe q merchant Is
dishonest who through the bankruptcy
court would repudiate debt he eouiu
nav. Why will you not say husDanu
is dishonest and contemplate wpo
would repudiate the obligation OF
lifetime love, which he accepted wheii
no pledged himself to the young glri
bv his side on his wedding day, when
they stood amid embowered orange
blossoms!
This swindle in reference to prom
iead affections which q husband some
times practices upon a wife Is the more
contemptible because in one sense the
wife is absolutely helpless after the
perpetration Of the fraud. say wha'
Won will. argue as you may, talk glow
ingly and POLITICALLY and grandiloquent-
" about woman's opportunities,
wife's opportunities have always been
and nearly always Will be circuin-
scribed by the four walls OF her nome
The husband has his outside business
relationships. He has his mercahtlIe
friends as well as his store friends. he
meets men on the street, in the cars, III
the office. behind the counter. lie can
get away and does get away from tne
home But for the most part the wire
is anchored to the kitchen, the ped
room and the nursery Of home by the
children. Therefore IL he fails her ana
defrauds her Of his promised love sne
is absolutely helpless and must suner
more than he can realize. she mas
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 ana
qoes forth to meet the world as an IN
dependent woman, then the world IT.
self will turn its back upon her. JUST
before l began my Chicago pastorate a
very prominent Pittsburg lady VINO
was divorced said to me: ION account
of the neglect and the inhumanities OF
brutal husband, for the protection OF
myself and children, got legal sepa'
ration. But IL | had 1t all to do over
again I would bear any injustice ano
suffer every brutality rather than ge'
a divorce. The outside world does no.
look into the causes Of family dis
ruption. but heartless people will al
ways look upon a divorced wife as OF
one who has a black mark upon ne
brow" Oh, We faithless, unloying hus
bands, will you not be honest to your
selves and honest to your wives anC
nav the promissory note Of love whicl
YOU made when the minister pro
nounced you and your wife one unit
death do you partT
Broken Hearted wives.
Can you not hear the waiiings AM
sobs Of broken hearted wives In ID
words of the poet Of old:
Before 1 trust my fate to thee
Or place my hand In thine,
Before let thy future give
Color and form to mine,
Before l peril all to thee,
Question thy soul tonight for me-
Does there within thy dimnes
dreams
A possible future shine,
Wherein thy life could hencefort
breathe,
Untouched, unshared by mine?
II so, at any pain or cost,
. Oh. tell me before all Is lost.
) In the death knell Of a husband
! love | also hear the sobs of the broke
: heart of a mother as well as OF VIII
t The great dramatlst wrote, ION, sharl
| or than a serpents tooth it is to have
J, thankless childw Many mother BIZ
n learned this by bitter experlenc
Y through her husbands conduct. III
o love that the child naturally feels II
y the mother withers and dies under Il
noison that comes from witnessing II
fathers contempt for the mother IL
y tie likely is a child to reverence u
/ mother after hearing the blame al
IS vituperation hurled at her by her hu
n band. In the Venetian museum Is
Y fatal instrument, invented by Tibalo
n called 1.-The key of death" 1t was
'e kew having in its handle a small III
is den spring, which inclosed neeo
n, filled with deadly poison. When IL
n KEY was pressed by the hand the ne
re die would spring forth, inject the p
'e son into the hand Of the holder, a.
death would always follow the tou(
ye So in many a home there is a key
le death" 1t is nearly always fatal to
81 child's love. 1t is the key which ope
" the chamber Of horrors" in whi
Or rattles the grinning, hideous skelet
ne Of a husbands dead love. If bru
at father systematically continues TO n
Ae fault with his wife, If he neglects n
ei and ridicules her and sneers at h'
IT, he sets an example which his childr
10 are only too prone to follow. His es
IL mate Of their mother, often coarse
NJ and bluntly expressed, is likely to
1o come theirs, and their natural affectl
10 for her turns to indifference and
III gratitude. Oh, my friends, VINO q
'h' husbands and fathers, you know hC
he sanctifying and purifying is the INF
al ence that has come to you from 20
IN mothers graves. Your love and rev
Ve ence for your mother have kept you
as many an hour of temptation. Let yo
lt children have the same benehcent inf
r. ence Never by look or thought
lis word weaken the influence your W
ID. may have over your children. WI
b" you are untrue to your wives, you
~ untrue to your children.