Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-02

IN two years mors their comfortable
fortune had been diSsipatsd by him
and they had moved out Of their Pre-
tenement house. He continued to como
left him, not with any idea Of securing
. divorce from him. but because she
felt that * the means she employed 70
bring him to realisation Of his wrong
doing was good It would sooner have
borne fruit. She thought q different
means might accomplish results be-
cause inducing in him q sense Of lose
loss OF her and their children.
Two years IL long time for wife
to put up with q drunken husband. To
sit thru the long day and the long
hours Of the night waiting for him to
come home and then to open the door
to him beastialized Is not q thing call
culated to inspire faith in his rsdemp-
ton. And yet this woman had the
faith. She felt the presence Of God
who was good and just and msrc1ful
and she knew that this visitation must
be accompanied by good somehow.
| sometime. somewhere. She chung to
her faith in God and thus to her faith
In her husband ana found support In
her misery In the belief that In the end
he would be restored to her in moral
! strength greater than he had possess-
ed before.
Leaving him. she went to work to
support herself and their children, Of
whom there were three. in another city.
And her husband. finding his home
empty. thereafter slept where oppor-
tunity offered. In she'd or barn or In
jail. He found the depths and drink
! besotted staggered supplied in them.
It 10 not a pretty picture. yet one true
withal And for many It would end
here. marking the relations OF this
wife and husband.
But because she had faith and with
faith love. the picture Is incomplete ia
/ IT'S present stage. Having come to the
point where the shades Of blacklist
night were drawn there was a single
logical thing to do and that to wait.
Yet how few there are that coming to
this pass would confront the future
with confidence ia what It would BRING
forth! IN their impotence with af-
fiction people censure God and re-
nounce Him for his seeming abandon
ment Of them. daring to put above
| His INFINITE wisdom their faliibie tudE-
ment, daring to question and contra :
dict and doubt Him. and having the
eH-ontery TO take themselves out OF
His hands and turn deaf ear to HIS
counsels. But she looking into blacklist
darkness, worked, and waited for the
dawn. 1t was not long walt as the
span Of life goes before there came to
her report that her husband had stop
ped drinking and that he was poor and
pale and emaciated. There came other
reports from time to time OF his con-
tinued sobriety. Of his engaging in
business in . small way. and finally he
came himself 10 ask her to return to
him. And she. without acrmony and
without rebuke and csnsre, said thai
she would 60 back TO him with the
children when he had given earnest
OF his purpose by longer abstinence
from drink forever thereafter not to
use 1t. In time they were restored to
each other. and on the ruins OF theii
former life they builded anew. And
the structure Of their rearing was bet
ter than the one which crumbled down
for In the now structure was the
strength that faith imports. the peace
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the charity that suffering bexets. the
sympathy Of understanding it induces
the university OF love II inspires.
without tho stan Of faith to lean up
on men and women make sorry mess
OF their ifves out Of which they crowc
the brightness Of happy days. The,
turn from the materialism OF science
from the spencers and the Huxleys IND
cry out. Whore Is your proof?" Poor
blind fools that DO not see the proof or
every hand. Under tho microscope
they put the fructifying seed. but they
can not explain the mystery of the
!ecorn and the oak. Yet the acorn anc
the oak are there before them. The
soil 10 turned and the corn planted anc
despite the farmers inability to tel
on what day rain shah fall or the sur
shsil shine ana nourtsh the seed. the
faith IN his that there will be harves
eompensa,ing for his labor. And there
Is harvest. Yet when mon apply THU
faith to the spiritual elements science
brands it "superstition!" and those o.
little faith give ear to it.-biind lead
ers Of the blind!