The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-12
A possible future shine,
Wherein thy life coula henceforth

possible future shine,
Wherein thy life coula henceforth
breathe
Untouched, unshared by mine2
If so at any pain or cost,
oh tell me before all Is lost.
In the death knell of husbands love
also hear the sobs of the broken heart
of a mother IS we'll as of a wife. The
great dramatist wrote, "Oh, sharper than
a serpents tooth 1t is to have thank
less childp Many mother has learned
this by bitter experience, through her
husbands conduct. The love that the
child naturally feels for the mother WITH
ers and dies under the poison that comes
from witnessing the fathers contempt
for the mother. Little likely Is the child
TO reverence the mother after hearing
the blame and yltuperation hurled at her
BY her husband. In the Venetian museum
is a fatal Instrument, invented by TIDAL
do, called 1.-THE key of death. IL was
KEY having in its handle a small hlaaeh
spring, which inclosed needle fliled win
deadly poison. When this key was pres
cd nv the hand the needle would spring
forth. inject the poison into the hand OF
the holder. and death would always iol-
low the touch. So in many a home there
is a .skev of death" 1t is nearly always
fatal TO a child's love. It Is the key Wnlch
onens the "chamber of horrors, III When
rattles the grinning. hideons skeleton u
husbands dead love. II brutal ia'neI
systematically continues to ina lanil
with his wife, If he nesleets hef anu riu7
Icrles her and sneers at her, he sets an
80 ,,,,lo which his children are only too
nrone TO follow His estimate OF their
mother often eoarsely and blun'iy eN
nressed Is likely to become theirs anu
tbeir natural affection for her turns 10
Indifference and ingratitnde on, ns
friends. who are husbands and la,hers,
Won know how sanctifying ana p'iiAsin i,
Is the influence that has come ~ -,
from your mothers graves, W. -
and reverence for your mother nave Mp
az, y, many an hour of temptation. Lei
your children have the same pehe,iesn
;,,f1t,anca Never by look or thousht ~
word weaken the influence your WI" VIZ,
r,ay have over your children, Nheh you
ore untrue to your wives you are u'i'i ue
to your children.
"Iove Your Wives
Rut there is still another anu nv
far reaching reason why American mn nv.
should love their wives, even as 1hll9s
also loved the church and gave ~. ~
for 1T" Not only is the home p"' ele
community and the nation, Duii1eu upo ~
~ cornerstone of the love which nus
etatinp this fact too emphaticallY. WIZ
90 further and say that the salvation Vi
Tho world itself Is dependent upon tiia'
nurified love What does the Blbie 80 y,
s.coa setteth the solitary In tamiiles'
rhe unit of society is not the man VINO
casts as vote the white SIP ol Papsa
into the ballot box. 1t Is the man anu
the woman Joined together AT lhe M
riage altar as one. If that union u M
maintained in the spiritual sense tneh
there Is no union, and there Is no slaoie
community ro.
why was the first settlement Of James
town, va. failure and the tirst settle
ment of Plymouth rock success Neie
the old Plymouth fathers any prayef hlsn
than the Virginia plantersY Was nv, NJ
John Smith of as heroic mold as Miles
Standish2 The reason of the fallnle. u
the jamestown colony was due 10 me
fact that these southern colonlzefs uiu
not bring their wives along with tnehi
while the Plymouth fathers stuck 10 Ply,
mouth rock because they were anchoreu
there by Plymouth mothers. Why W
men herding together as class dtssnst
ate morally. mentally and physlealis
Because they lack the moral ana SD ~,
nal leaven which comes from nopie
wife's love. Therefore. brethern, II as
men YOU would be true to your country
true to your city, true to your chllaren
80 - vo,,rsalf and true to your Christ
YOU will be true to your wives NUS
bands hear We not the far-reaching com
mandment. Love your wives
Respect and Difference.
How shall we love our wives? BY CIV
ing them few silly compliments? On.
no. Not that A wife is quick TO detect
insincerity In such inanities. But you
can show her your respect and Difference.
You can prove to her by your pleasure
| IN her society, by the little attentions
| that when you were a lover came nat
urally to you and by your preferences iH'