Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-15
MARRIED FOLK MUSTN'T
HAVE SECRETS, SAYS
MONDAY PREACHER
"Concealment Is Mother of Sus-
picion and Builds Impassable
Barriers" Asserts the
Rev. |. C. Hoffman
"HoMEs POWER is LOVE"

There must be no secrets between 9
married pair " thu expect TO abide II
.happiness, according to the Rev. l
Chantry Hoffman. In a Lenten sermon to
day at old st Johns Church, Race street
near Sixth.
"Concsalmcnt.Y said Mr.. Hoffman. "is
the fertile mother OF suspicion and sus
picion ~ dsath tn confidence. Secrecy
is q builder of impossible barriers, SC
that husband and wife find It Impossible
10 Pass over into the shining plains OF
MUTUAL understanding.
MIR. Hoffmon offered the cheering in.
formation that mot all husbands fuss
and fight"
"The mighty majority" he said, are
never mentioned In the court news. They
live peacefully and prosperously. They
establish their homes and maintain them
according to the admonitions Of the Word
OF God
"The miracle-working power in the
home is love. This fulfls all OF the
marital law. This does not mean mere
emotional fervor nor sentimental fond
ness"
AFFECTION AND SACRIFICE
Mr.. Hoffman then drew vivid word
picture of the methods NJ the successful
married pair.
"Affectlon between husband and wife,
he said. "manlfest1 itself in self-dcnal
and brings the acceptable Offering OF the
hearts sacrifices. The partners in the
matrimonial venture give their choicest
and their best Nothing is withheld. All
the possessions of the body and mind and
soul are placed on the altar of the home.
God honors the gifts and the heavenly
blessing is enjoyed.
"Conildence is absolutely necessary to
the realization of the marital ideal. Hus-
bands think too often that the wife is
only a poets dream and is not fitted to
aid In the solution of what he calls his
problemg These husbands are mistaken,
and their experience is oftentmes costly.
If woman's reason appears to lack in
certain emergencies, her intuition Is to
be trusted Her advice is unselfish. with
out Interior motive, and generally is safe
and sane.
LOVELY BLOOMS FOR HOMES.
"Gentleness, tenderness. thoughtfulness
and forgiveness are the beautiful flowers
that must grow In the garden of the heart
Of the husband and the wife II the home !
Is to be filed with the fragrance of their
In the stress and the strain |
Df the calling of the man and in the worry !
and the weariness of the work of the |
there Is little inclination to cul- |
.ivate these lovely blooms.
'Impatience and misunderstanding and |
allure to appreciate each other are frosts !
4 winter that kill with chilling blast the ,
lelicate blossoms of marital love. Dis
agreements and dsappointments and !
lesolation are the weeds that choke the
lowers.
How lovely is the home in which there
s the outward exhibition of the inward
harmony of the mind and soul of the hus-
band and the wife This home is Gods
porch to His heavenly palace"
SERVICES AT ST. JoSEPH'S.
The Rev John d. Butler, S. j., said
oday In n monday Lenten sermon at Old
IT, Joseph's Church that II people realized
hat they were in this world to serve
iod and save their souls, many of our
o-called social problems would meet with
n early solution. Mr.. Butler took for
lis text, THE House Built Upon Rock
Il. Matthew, vii 24-27.
I'VE are not living principally to be-
ome rich or enjoy ourselves said Mr.
Butler. "It is not absolutely necessary for
Is 10 succeed in our business, or in our
profession, or to gain the praise of men.
We are here to serve God"
BISHOP WILLIAMS SPEAKS.
The Rev. DR.. Charles D. Williams
Bishop of Michigan, deplored the popular
in some quarters that reason
md religion are irreconcilable. He deliv-
red Lenten sermon in st. Stephens
Episcopal Church. 10th street near Chest
tut.
There Is the notion" he said. reg
lant unfortunately in many an American
louth. that red-blooded, virile manhood is
with virtue, that it is smart
o be fast and stupid TO be temperate, So
,er and chaste, and a fool to be good, par
icularly 10 be pious; notion for which,
certain types of piety give
ome ground
.Plato declared that all sin is ignorance
md knowledge and virtue are one. The
Whole OF the Scripture seems to me but
me comment on that fundamental theme"
DIR. ToMEdNs TALKS ON MAN.
Man is a type of heaven" said the Rev
lloyd w Tomkins. ID. D., at the MONDAY
ervice at Old st. Pauls Protestant Epis-
opal Church. Sd street below Walnut
AS man lives on earth and serves and
ives. so viii he at last live forever God
,ants the complete manhood. He de-
iands not a part of life, but the whole.
Vhen a man works at a profession on
arth he has to give his whole being to
i. so 1t ought TO be with Christianity.
,ody, mind, soul and spirit are a unit.
Vhen any one is astray the whole man
affected, but they must move In har-
lony and balance, for IL the body fights
gainst the spirit, or vice versa, there is
rouble A square man is an honest man.
ut honesty demands loyalty to God as
Tell as loyalty to self, truth and fellow
len. Hence the necessity OF a complete,
alanced and consecrated manhood"