The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-01-19

All grief and doubt and unbelief
Flee where mother is
Hope and faith and sweet relief
Come where mother is.
Mother. mother, name most sweet,
Heaven guide my weary feet.
Home where mother is.
N.
To those whose school days are
over, We would say, enter into
your lile'S ork and stick to it.
Do not dodge from one thing to
another continually, if you do
you will never amount to any
thing. Be a useful, law abiding
citizen. Try to make a part of
the world better by having lived
in it. DO not make getting mar.
ried your chief aim in life or go
around hunting some one to fall
in love with, but when love comes
TO you be sure it is love and not a
passionate fancy, and accept 1t as
a blessing sent from God.
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Study to make the best of what
you have Too many fail to use
the talents they have because
they have not more to put with
them. Don't look for too grand
things and deny yourself and
your family the things you might
enjoy, simply because you cant
give them greater ones. The man
who gives his family the benefit
of good, convenient well ar
ranged home with fruit and
flowers and good books and we'll
, chosen periodicals for reading
and cultlvating the mind, who
gives each such education as his
means will allow, and who is
kind and cOnSiderate toward
those who are in large degree
dependent Oh him for love and
protection, has done a good work
which, coupled with true Chris
/ tian life, will entitle him to the
blessed welcome: "Well don ,
thy good aud faithful servant,
enter into the joys of thy Lord"
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When man gives his hand in
marriage to woman. lie SAYS by
his act among all women, that
he has for her deeper and ten
derer affection than for any other
human being. AT the marriage
altar he solemnly pledges the con
tinuance of that love until death.
When beauty has faded from her
face, the bright flash from her
eyes, when age has brought wTin-
kleS to the brow, and sorrow has
traced its burrows in the cheeks.
the faithful husbands love is to
remain as deep and true as ever.
His heart is still to choose his
wife among all women and find
In her its truest delight. Gods
word gives the measure of this
love. Husbands love your wives,
{ even as Christ also loved the
church and gave Himself for it.
There is no earthly line long
V enough to measure The depth of
Christ's love to the church, and
! no man can love in the same
: degree. And yet that love is to
I be the type of conjugal love.
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1t has been said chest men are
moulded ont of faults" but it is
Nnot every wife who has the ingre
dents in her makeup to do the
moulding. The main difficulty is
: that people demand of marriage
all OF the universal virtues of a
patent medicine, warranted to
cure all intirmities. The marriage
ceremony does not remove a
womau's faults, or mans crook.
ed disposition. They are exactly
the same people that they were
before they were married, only
little more so. Do we not
know this world? Have we not
measured it in the pint cup of
our experience and found out
many things which our youth and
lnexperience iondly disbeIieved?
Have yon ever found perfection
In literature, weather, climate,
your friends, or anything in this
worldF Then why demand it of
marriage more than of these
other things? Behold the limo
cence of the young lady who told