The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-10
FOR HUSBANDS.

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FOR HUSBANDS.
Yor are a husband. Your wife
is absolutely at your mercy. She
may not have known this when
she became your wife, but she has
been compelled to feel it since
that eventful moment. However
neglectful, unkind, cruel or Pc
nuriously oppressive you may
be sure she has no redress. To
publish her woes to the public ia
her disgrace; to return your con-
duct in kind is only to increase
your injustice to her. 1t may be
that both your success in life and
your ability to earn food for the
children she has born to you, de-
ponds upon her skill in hiding
from the public your conduct to
her in private. She has to smile
before the world to conceal the
wrongs she has to endure, and she
is compelled to silence in private
lest these wrongs may be in
creased. She has left everything
to devote herself to you and you
have never indicate your appre-
ciated of her action. She has
planned, toiled and exhausted the
resources of head and hand to
your comfort and advance your
interests, but not a word of graft
tude has ever escaped your lips.
She has been confined to hearth
and home all day long, to piece
out your income, to beautify and
bless your home and to bring forth
to rear and to mould the minds of
your children, but never an en-
couraging word has been spoken
in her ears. She has shown by
everything since she left the tears
and tenderness of a devoted
mother, that you are the one who,
next to her Lord, occupies the
most sacred place in her heart;
but you have not spoken the en-
dearing word, nor given the gen.
tie touch of election since the day
she became your wife. You gave
en- ough of these-aye, too much
when you wooed in order to wed
but after the wedding the wooing
c eased and the wife has wept in
secret, her whole nature has been
| st arved and her whole life, that
ought to have been in the perpet-
ual bloom of the month of May,
has become a bleached and blast.
ed desert of dry land. All this
has come to pass for the lack of
tn ose trifing attentions, those lit
tie marks of affection those deli
cate acts OF appreciation that con-
stitute the food and life of a wom-
ans soul. A true woman feeds
upon the outward attentions that
come from the heart of the hus-
band she loves. Your wife has q
right to expect that she would
learn much of the depth the ten
derness and the constancy and
of her Lord by the love of her hus-
band before her eyes, but she has
been grievously disappointed.
The husband-the Christian hus-
bands to love his wife as Christ
loved the Church and gave him
self for it. But alas, has not
your conduct been a caricature oil
the action of Christ toward the
, church? What a rare chance
what a distinguished priviledgs
to glorify Christ and to comfor'
, the wife OF your heart and home
you have let pass by! But it il
: not toe late. Go to her low and
: owning the failure of the past, be-
, gin your home life over again from
3 the divine point of view with nev
l ideals and new motives. Yo,
. may yet reveal the heart of Chris
: to the heart of your wife an,
. make your home on earth a mod
: flied miniature of your Father
home in Heaven. Will you do it
81 have been somewhat costiv
. but Doan's Regulets gave just tn
~resu1ta deairO1 Thev act midi