Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-12-15

to my meeting, and especially to my
husband accompanying me. He re.
fused to 60, on the ground that he
had not been invited to commune, and
as I sank in the deep waters of af-
fiction, did so need the pulpit teach
ings of my old pastor, which seemed
to lift me and set my feet upon a
rock. One day I walked the seven
miles and back, when the family car
riage went to take two preachers to
an appointment; three horses stood
in the old stone barn, and my hus-
band at home with his mother. This
gave great offense as the advertise
ment of q grievance, and was never
repeated.
During all my childhood and youth,
I had been spoiled by much love, if
love can spoil. I was non-resistant
by nature, and on principle, believed
in the power Of good. Forbearance,
generosity, helpful service, would,
should, must, win my new friends to
love me.
Getting me into the house with my
mother-in-law, was so important a
part Of the plan Of salvation, that to
effect it, I was left without support
teacher, tailor, dress-maker, for my
husbands family. He visited me once
or twice week, and ignored my moth
| er's presence, while she felt that in
this, as in any church. joining conflict,
only God could help me, and stood
alOOf.
To me the sun was darkened, and
the moon refused her light. I knew
that jealous Cod who claimed the
Supreme love of his creatures, was
scourging me for making an idol and
bowling down before it-for loving my
husband. I knew it was all just and
chung to the Almighty arm, with the
old cry, Though he STAY me, yet will
I trust in him." To my husband I
chung with like tenacity, and could
not admit that my suffering was thru
any fault Of his.
The summer after my marriage,
mother went for a long visit to But
Ter, and left us in possession Of her
house. My husband bought a village
property, including wagon-maker' q
shop, employed q workman and sent
him to board with me. He also made
some additions to dwelling on it,
that we might go there to live, and
the workmen boarded with me, while
{. my mOther-in-laW furnished prOvis
ions and came or sent q daughter tc
see that I did not waste them. Hel
reproofs were in the form of sug
gestions, and she sought to please me
: by saying she had ALLOWED James
to get certain things for me; but hi
did not visit me any oftener thar
when mother was at home, and ,whe1
: she returned in the autumn, the pota
i toes were frozen in the ground, hl
apples son the trees, and the COW
stood starving at the stable door.
Then ( learned that had been ez
mother's lot, and this was not un
reasonable, for had married a Penn
sylvania farmer, and their wives an,
sisters and daughters did such worl
often, while the men folks" pitche
Vitality. Lack Of strength wassno#ree
son why woman should fall ID he
Eduty, for when one fell at her pos
There was always another to take he
lplace. ...-~s
r. Up to this time mother had left m
] to settle my troubles, but now, sh
told me l must turn and demand ju,
tfce; that generosity was more tina
thrown away; that I never could hv
Il with my husband and bear his net
lect and unkindness and that Of hi
y family. I must leave him, defend m.
i Eseif, or die. That I should have bee
4 respected to gather apples and DE-. p,
Itataas, filed her with indignation: Sh
Iadv@ed me to stay with her and +,
4 |fu16 to see him, but shuddered Z
think II had come to this IN one ak61