DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON Does Religion Pay ? “Godliness is profitable unto all *Lirgs. hav. {og promise of the life that now 18, and of that which is to come.'—1 Tim, 4 : 8. A Harpy NEw YrEAr toone and atl There is a gloomy and passive way «of waiting for the events of the open- ing year to come upon us, and there is a heroic way of going out to meet thew, strong in God, and fearing noth- ing. When the body of Catiline was found on the battle-fleld it was found far in advance of all his troops, and among the enemy; and the best way is not for us to lie down and Jet the events of life trample over us, but to go forth in a Christian spirit determined to conquer, The papers were made out, and some of you have just entered into business partnerships, and others of you take higher positions in the commercial es- tablishment where you were engaged, and others have entered upon new en- terprises, and there were last week in these cities ten thousand business chunges. You are expecting prosper- ity, and I am determined, so far as I have an) thing to do with it, that you shall not be disappointed, and, there- fore, 1 propose, as God may help me this morning, to project upon your at- tention a new element of success, You will have in the business firm, frugal- ity, patience, industry, perseverance, eooncin y- A VERY STRONG BUSINESS FIRM, but there needs to be one member ad- ded, mightier than they all, and nota silent partner eitlier—the one intro- duced by my text: *‘Godliness, which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now 1s, as well as of that which is to come.” I suppose you are all willing to ad- mit that Godliness is important in ils eternal relations; but perhaps some of you say: ‘‘All I want is an opportun- ity to say a prayer before I die, and all will be well,”” There are a great many pecple who suppose that if they can finally get safely out ot this world into a better world, they will have exhaust- ed the entire advantage of our holy re. ligion. They talk as though religion were a mere nod of recognition which we are to give to the Lord Jesus on our way up to a heavenly mansion; as though it wera an adnussion ticket, of no use except to give in at the door of Heaven. Aud there are thousands of people who have great admiration for a religion of the shroud, and a religion of the coffin and a religion of the hearse, and a religion of the cemelery, who have no appieciation of a religion for the bank, for tbe farm, for the factory, for the wu shop, for the broker's office. Now, while I would not throw any slur on a post-mortem religion, 1 want this worning to eulogize an ANTE MORTEM RELIGION, A religion 102% 13 of no use to you while you live, will be of no use to you when you die. *‘Godliness is profitable uato is to come.” And I have always no- ticed that when the grace is very low in a man’s heart be talks a great deal in prayer-mectings about coffins, and 1 have no tian, the man who is living near to God, and is on the straight road to Heaven, is full of jubilant satisfaction, | and talks about the duties of this life, | understanding well that if God helps | him to live right He will help him to | die rigiit. ! Now, in the fist place, I remark that | gtdltness is cond for ‘a man's physical | healéh. I donot mean to say that it will restore a broken-down constitution or drive rheumatism from the limbs, or | neuralgia from the temples, or pleusisy from the side; but I do mean to say that it gives one such habits and puts one in such eondition as 18 most favor- able for physical health. That 1 be- lieve, and that I avow, Everybody | knows that buoyancy of spirit is good | physical advantage, Gloom, unrest, dejection are at war with every pulsa- | tion of the heart, and with every re- spiration of the lungs, It lowers the vitality, it slackens the circulation, while exhilaration spirit pours the very balm of heaven through all the cur- rents of hfe. The sense of insecurity which sometimes hovers over an unfte- gererale man, or pounces upon him with the blast of ten thousand trum- pels of terror, is most depleting and most exhausting, while the feeling that all tirings are working together for my good now, ail for my everlasting wel- fare, is CONDUCIVE TO FUYSICAL HEALTH, You will observe that godliness in- “duces industry, which 1s the founda~ tion of good healt, There is no law of hygiene that will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab bim, erysi- pelas will burn him, jaundice will dis- color him, gout will cripple him, and the intelligent physician will not pre- scribe antiseptic, or febrifuge, or ano- dayne, but saws and hammers and yard- stieks and’ crowbars ‘and pickaxes, There is no such thing as good physical condition without positive work of some kind, although you should sleep on down of swan, or ride In carriage of softest upholstery, or have on your table all the luxuries that were poured from the wine-vats of Ispaban and Shiraz. Our religion says: ‘Away to the bank! away to the field! ‘away’ to the shop! away to the factory! do some- thing that will enliet all the snercies your body, r one of them shall get the religion of the Lord Jesus Clirist in his heart, and the other shall not get it, the one who be- comes a son of the Lord Almighty will live the longer, “With long life will I satisfy thee, and show thee my salva- tion. "? Again I remark that godliness is GOOD FOR THE INTELLECT, [ know some have supposed that just as soon as aman enters into the Chris- tian life, his 1utellect goes into a be- dwarfing process. So far from that, re- ligton will give new brillianey to the intellect, new strength to the imagina- tion, new force to the will, and wider swings to all the intellectual faculties, Christianity 1s the great central fire at which Philosophy has lighted its bright- est torch, The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is the fountain out of which learning bas dipped its clearest draught, The Helicon poured lorth no such inspiring waters as those which flow from under the throne of Gud clear as crystal. Religion has given new en- ergy to Poesy, weeping in Dr. Young's * Night Thoughts,”’ teaching in Cow- per’s **Task,” flaming in Charles Wes- ley’s hymns, and rushing with arc an- gelic splendor through Milton's **.iri- dise Lost.” The religion of Je Christ has hung in studio, and in gui lery of art. and in Vatican the best pic- tures Titian’s * Assumption, »’ Raphwml’s “Transfiguration,” Ruben’s, “Descent from the Cross’ “Burning Bush,” and Augelo’s ‘Last Judgment.” Religion has made the best music of the world—Haydn's **Cre- ation,” Handel's **Messiah,”” Mozart's “Requiem.” Is it possible that a re- ligion which builds such indestructible monuments, and which lifts its ensign on the highest promontories of worldly power, can have any effect upon a man’s intellect but elevation? Now, I commend godliness as tie best mental discipline~better than belles lettres to purify the taste; better than mathematics to harness the mind to all intricacy and elaboration; better than logic to marshal the intellectual forces for onset and victory. It will go with Hugh Miller, and show him the foot- prints of the Creator in the redsand- stove. It will go with the botanist, and show him celestial glories encamp- ed unuc. curtain of a water-lily. It will go with the astronomer on the 18 flock of worlds that wander on the hills of heaven, answering His veice as Ie calls them all by their names, GOOD FOR THE DIS ’i that disposition, went ints a great offer this prayer: great POSITION. iit i1iness is Lord Again I remark, profitable tor one’s Ashley, before he battle, was heard to “0 Lord, 1 shall be very busy to-day; forget Thee, forget me not.” With such a Christian disposition as that, a man is mdependent of all cir- cumstances, Our piety will bave a tinge of our natural temperament, If a man be cross and sour and fretful naturally, after be becomes a Christian he will always have to be armed against or Zon ture; it has turned fretfulness lato | i DBROV- been | wade pliable and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not | effect the change. It takes a mightier arm and a mightier hand to bend evil habits than the hand that beat the bow than ever held the buffalo on the prairie, A man cannot human weapons and contend success. fully against these Titans armed with uptorn mountain. But you have | known men into whosa spirit the influ. ence of the gospel of Christ came, until their disposition was entirely changed. | So it was with TWO MERCHANTS IN NEW YORK, They were very antagonistic, They | had done all they could to injure each | other. They were in the same line of | business, One of the merchants was | converted to God. Having been con- | verted, he asked the Lord to teach ham how to bear lmmself toward that busi- go forth with any with the fact that it was his duty, when a customer asked for certain kinds of goods which be had not, but which he knew his opponent had, to recommend him to Jo to that store. I suppose that is about the hardest thing a wan could do; but being thoroughly converted to God, he resolved to do that very thing; and being asked for a certain kind of goods, which he had not, he said: “You go to such and such & store, and you will get it.” After a while, merchant number two found these customers coming so sent, and he found, slso, that merchant number one had been brought to God, and he sought the same religion. Now they are good friends and good neigh- bors—the grace of God entirely chaug- ing their dispositions. ; “Oh,” says some one, ‘I have a rough, jagged, impetuous nature, and religion can't do anything for me.” Db you know that Martin Luther and Robert Newton and Richard Baxter were impetuous, all-consuming natures, yet the grace of God turned them into THE MIGHTIEST USEFULNESS? A manufacturer cares but very little for a stream that slowly runs through the meadow, but a strong torrent that leaps from rock to rock, and rushes with mad energy through the valley, and out toward the sea. Along that river you will find fluttering shuttles and grinding mill and flashing water wheel, And a nature the swiftest, the most rugged, and the most tremendous, that 1s the nature God turns into great. est usefulness, Ob, how many that have been Jugnicious, and hard to please, and irascible, and more bother- ed about the mote in their neighbor's eye than about the beam like ship-tim- Ba 1b thes ro: eho Ba — y the grace o have I out that “Godliness is pr fitable for the life thal now is as well as for the life to come,” . «. 4 | Again I remark that religion is GOOD FOR WORLDLY BUSINESS. theory is, the more business the less jon; the more re- ‘the Jess busi ot so thought grew in grace the last six years of his life more than at any time in his life; during those six years he bad ore business crowding him than at any other time.” In other words, the more worldly business a man has, the more opportunity to serve God. Does re- ligion exhilarate or retard worldly busi- ness? is the practical question for you to discuss, Does it hang like a mort- gage over the farm? Is it a bad debt on the ledger? Isita lien against the estate? Does 1t crowd the door through which customers come for broadelothy and silks? Now, religion will hinder your busi. ness if it be a bad business, or if it be a good business wrongly conducted, If you tell lies behind the counter, if you use false weights and measures, if you put sand in sugar, and beet-juice in vinegar, and lard in butter, and sell for one thing that which is another thing, then religion will interfere with that business; but a lawful business, law- fully conducted, will find the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ ITS MIGHTIEST AUXILIARY. leligion will give an equipoize of spirit. It will keep you from ebullitions of temper—and you know a great many fine businesses have been blown to atoms by bad temper; it will keep you from worriment about frequent loss, it will keep you industrious and prompt, i it will keep vou back from squandering and from dissipation, it will give you a kindness of spirit which will be easily distinguished from that mere store courtesy which shakes hands violently with you, asking about the health of | to know sick! many dozen cambric pocket-haovdker- It will prepare you for the practical duties of every-day life. I do not mean | cially rieh, but I do say that It wil | give us, it will assure us of, a comfort- able sustenance at the start, a comfori- able subsistence all the way through, business matters, and to make the most of vast importance, glorified by Chris- | tian principle. In New York City | there was | A MERCHANT, HARD IN HIS DEALINGS | with his fellows, who had written over | his banking house, or his counting { house room, “No compromise,” Then { when some merchant got in a crisisand | went down—no fault of his, but a co { junction of evil circumstances, and all { the other merchants were willing to | compromise; they would take seventy- | five cents on the dollar, or fifty cents, or | twenty cents—coming this man last of all, he said: “No compromise; I'll take one hundred cents on the dollar, and I can afford to wall,” Well, the wheel turned, and after a while that man was in a crisis 6f business, and bh fle i i i 1 i to ©" ana | the agent said to the merchants: “Will | you take fifty cents on the dollar?” “No,” *Will you take anything?’ “We'll take one hundred cents on the lollar.. No eompromise.” And the who wrote that inscription over house door died in destitu- want more of the Kind- and the spirit of love 1g file Rigs tion, Uh, we ness of the Gospel have iound in the tical many there are in this could testify out of their own experi- ence, that godliness is profitable for the that now is! There were times iu their business career when they went young men How who help? HOuss to-day life they knelt before the Lord erying for them, polis—a village bank-—an officer could accounts, He had worked at them day after day, night after night, and he was sick nigh unto death as a result, He knew he had not taken one farthing from that bank, but then, the accounts wouldn't balance, The time rolied on, and the morning of the day when the books should pass un- der the inspection of the other officers arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril, conscious of his own integrity, but unable to prove that integrity. That morning be went to the bank early, and he knelt down before God and told the whole STORY OF MEXTAL ANGUISH, right; 1 have preserved my integrity, but here I am about to be overthrown, unless thou shouldst come to my rescue, Lord, deliverme,’’ And for one hour he continued the prayer before God, and then he rose and went to an old blotter that he had forgotten all about. He opened it, and there lay a sheet of figures which he only needed to add to another line of figures—some line of figures he had forgotten, and knew not where he had laid them-—and the ac- counts were balanced, and the Lord de- livered him. You dre an infidel if you do not believe it, The Lord delivered him. God answered his prayer as He will answer your prayer, OU man of busi- re in every crisis, when you come to 1. Now, if this be go, then I am persuad- ed, as you are, of the fact that the vast majority of Christians do not fully test the value of their religion, They are like a farmer in California, with fifteen housand acres of good wheat land, and culturing only a quarter of an acre. Why do you not go forth and make the religion of Jesus Christ a practical affair every day of your business ile; and all this year, beginning now; a to-morrow morning putting into practi- cal effect this holy religion, and demon strating that godliness is profitable bert Be wall a get has ithout this ow ean you w religion? Is your physical health so good you don’t want this _ DIVINE TONIC? Is your mind so clear, so vast, so com- prehensive, that you do not want this divine inspiration? Is your worldly thorough that and deliverance of of men in crises of And if what I have tens of thousands Runidly rouble? Dr. Hans, in his Biography eta Chris fan Merchant,” when he says: “le : y 4 , bi Ie Fa de eset pd Tad hg | what 8 adjourns to life's expiration the uses of religion. ' A man who postpones relig- ion to sixty years of age gets religion fifty years too late. He may get iuto the kingdom of God by final repentance, but what can compensate him for a whole lifetime unalleviated and uncom- forted? You want religion to-day in the training of that child, You will want religion to-morrow in dealing with that Western customer. You wanted religion yesterday to curb your temper, Is your arm strong enough to beat your way through the floods? Can you, without being encased in the mall of God’s eternal help, go forth amid the assault of all hell’s sharpshiooters? CAN YOU WALK ALONE across these crumbling graves and amid these gaping earthquakes? Can you, waterlogged and mast-shivered, outlive the gale? Oh, how many there have been who, postponing the religion of Jesus Christ havejlunged into mistakes they never could coir. ct although they lived eighty years ufter, and like ser- { pents crushed under cart-wheels, drag- | ging their mauled bodies under the rocks to die; so these men have fallen | under the wheel of awful calamity, | crushed bere, destroyed forever, while a | vast multitude of uthers have taken the i religion of Jesus Christ into every-day | life, and first, in practical business { agairs, and secondly, on the throne of heavenly triumph, have illustrated, while angels looked on and a universe approved, the glorious truth that **God- liness 18 profitable unto all things, hav- i as well as of that wh ch is to come,” BE . —————— WOMEN WITH BEALILDS. fias Com: to the of Sach Afflicted OUnes, sn | | How Science Asa reporter sat in a cable car re- enter. Pretty, stylish and trim from head to foot—only one blemish, that a decided, un humiliating one, youth of 20 would have envied her. | Everywhere that one goes, churches, theatres, this disfigurement is | noticed, 1s there | women will re | method to rid th-mselvea of superfluous | halr, Scissors, tweezers, yes, even razors 1 i i i § i | with additional strength, There are { many fortunate cases, A young woman | had a few straggling hairs on her face, | she noticed them much more than any- | one else, and grew actually morbid on the subject. One day while having her hair shampooed her hairdresser noticed {them and told ber he could remove { them. He produced a small stone, and i i i § off, leas blush { ing from the [riction, j that if they ret ined they would be { much areely be Instead, ina few duys they appeared, i and to her horror ound they were { very much worse than before. In her | despair she again used the stone which her hairdresser had persuaded twiy. This practice she Kept up d until her face was io a frightful co tion. However, a remedy found in electricity. “It is the only way on earth to effect- ually kill this parasite,’’ said well known physician to the reporter. “Any | physician of repute will assure you of that fact. Sipgeing, cutiin pulling out by tweezers or depilatocies only make them coarser, rougher and more bristling. The follicle must be Killed, then the hair falls ont of itself.” “Does it ever return?”’ | “Rometimes a few of the hairs com back, but they are always black aud extremely easy to kill the second tune,” { “is it a painful operation?’ “Well, sometimes, That depends a ing ber face smooth and $11 liner, ® to observed, she f has 3 a Ki i ] | the skin, and the nerves of the patient. {I find, though,” he adds laughingly, the ladies will endure it bravely—in thereby she 1s to be made better look- ing.” The reporter then asked permission to was granted. The patient sits in a re- | lining chair and holds a bowl of water the eords from the battery. To the other is attached the finest possible needle, The operator gathers up the flesh about the obnoxious hair, plunges the needle in deep, the patient dips two or three fingers in the water, says “Oh,” and waits, After a few seconds the needle is removed and the hair is deftly picked out by the tweezers. The face is left a little sore from the operation, but camphor freely applied will heal it. Camphor is much better than any oily substance like cream or vaseline, for they havea tendency to make hair grow, There, is therefore, no need for any woman to carry about this hideous blemish, which sometimes ruins an cihierwise faultless complexion. Women Who Work in Iron Mills, The fact is net generally known that women fre alseady occupying places and doing wock in iron mills and in manufactories of wire, Three years ago the men in a Pittsburg bolt manu- factory gave so much trouble that they were displaced by women. The ven. ture proved to be a marked success, so that the employers could not be Induced to go back te men and boys. The wire mill which was established about that time, took up with the idea, and again everything worked satisfactorily. Then a hinge tactory was opened to them and once more the women proved better workers, more reliable and less trouble- some than their male rivals, How far are winning their way and by and by the boys will have to agitate for equal rights, When all are left aman running ahead.of big ticket does not get there General Lyle ‘wrote his beautiful and » SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Buspay JANUARY 27, 1340, Forgiveness and Healing. LESSON TEXT. Mark 2: 1-12. Memory verses, 10-12) LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER! Myghty Worker, Jesus the GoLpeEN TEXT FoR THE QUALTER! Believe me that I am in the Father. and the Futher in me: or else belweve me for the very works’ sake. —John 14 : 11, Lesson Toric: Forgiving the Sin. {. The Beneficent Saviour, v8 1, % The Forgiven Sinner, vi, 8.1, 8. The Coavineed Caviicrs, VA & GoLDEN Text: Who forgiveth all thine tnigui‘wes: who healet’ all thy dis eases. — Psa, 103 1: 3, Day Hou READINGS: M.—Mark 2: 1-12, sinful, --Matt, 9 :1-8, lel narrative, Luke 5 : 16-20, J narrative, Psa, 23: forgiveness, F.—Isa, 43:1 Lord, S.—Rom, 3 : 19-31. forgiveness, S,—HRom, 5: forgiveness. Lesson Outiine: ° 1% the Forgiving P, Matthew's paral- 1-21. e——— a 1.EBSON ANAL I. THE BEXEFVICEN1 I. Seeking Men: He entered again into ( {1}. Jesus abou villages (Matt, Go after that which is lost, until he find it? (Luke 15 : 4). The Son of man came save {Luke 19 : 10). Ye did no choose me, but 1 chose you {John 15 : 16}. Il. Sought of Men ; Many were gathered togethe Where is he that is born King dews? (Matt, 2: 2). And behold, all the city came 44 meet Jesus (Matt, B : Y SiS. SAVIOUR, t all the cities and the { J wort Went 53M to seek and to d see Jesus (John 12 : 21 { 12 : 21 oir, 3 wou IL Teaching Men: Vé word unto them to He spake the The Lord ha good tiding Seeing the multitad mouth and taug He anointed me i 4: winted me . . he opened ‘Matt, ; : 1, 2) peas 3 ’ - 4 {ise If. THE FORGIVEN 81 rought to Jesus: ¥ COe, bringing the palsy (35. » him hither to me (Matt. 17: 17) they brought unto him Little fren (Matt, 19 : 13). Behold, men briog on a bed a man was palsied (Luke 5 : 18), He brought him unto 1:43). 11. Forgiven through Faith: Jesus seeing their faith salt y sins are forgiven (5). believed, unto thee { Matt, 8 : 13). taddi (John Jesus 3 Rig + = » th 3 i { i you (Matt. 9 : 20), is justified by faith (Rom. 3: Let him afk in faith, nothing doubling (Jas. 1:6). 111. Forgiven of God: Who can forgive sins but one, even God? (7h. Who forgiveth gil thine iniquities (Pra. 103 : 3). There is forgiveness with thee (Psa. 130 : 4). I.even 1, am be that blotieth out thy transgressions (Isa. 45 : To the Lord our God belong. . . .forgive- nesses (Dan, 9 : 9). HL 25}. 0) man.’ (1) The man’s forlorn condi. tion: (2) The bearers’ generous faith; (3) The Lord’s gracious wel- come, 2, “Son, thy sins are forgiven.” (1) The Father's tender address; The son's accumulated sins: ( The Father's forgiving assurance. 83. “Who can forgive sing but obe, even God?” (1) Man's greates. necessity; (2) God's greatest boon. 11, THE CONVINCED CAVILERS, 1. Doubt Rebuked: Why reason ye these things in your hearts? (8). Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? (Matt. 9 : 4). W hareioue didst thou doubt? (Matt, 14 : 81). Neither be ye of doubtful mind (Luke 12 : 29), He that doubteth is condemned if he eat (Rom. 14: 23. IL. Demonstration Granted: But that ye may know. ...(bhe saith in the sick). ...Axiss (10, 11). Take it by the tail:....that they may believe (Exod, 4 : 4, §). thee. ...And God fire, let him iy we | “re a) They were all amazed, and God (12). : v Aaron. ...did «ve And the L$ 20, a0, Ee. a Thomas. . . .said unto him, My Lord and my God (20 : 28). 1. “Why reason ye these things in your hearts?’ (1) Evil reasonings indulged: (2) Evil reasonings de- tected; (3) Evil reawnings rebuked; (4) Evil reasonings transformed, 2. “Whether is easier?” Christ's om- nipotence (1) Displayed in material works; (2) Claimed in spiritual affairs; (3) Felt in personal ex- yer Hoes, 3. *We never saw it on this fashion. The peerless deeds of Jesus: (1) In working miracles; In saving souls, 4 4 {i} {=} ce s———————— LESSON BIBLE READING, FORGIVEX ESR OF BINS. {LL Howat is Portrayed Forgiving transgressions { Psa RBewmoving transgressions (Pasa, 12} Blotling out transgress ous (Isa, 4 20% 44 ;: 20 Covering sin {Ps 4; Je i von 1 iit 2 How it is Fro i) » “ + 4 Necared n God alone Ti po 5 + 31 . Through Ch 28 3 Hom, & Acenrding ¥ pert TO118r3i bundantly (Isa : Freely (Isa. 55:1 ; Rom. 3 : Through faith (Mark 2 : 5 = . 1 3 5 de se ———— LESSON SURROUNDINGS, | The interval between the present les | son and the brief i: | “after some days’’). this point in i the history the Matt ew Is most remarkable in its variation from ironological order. The aceount sustains the order of Mark. { The place was Capernaum (Mall.: | “his own city”). The time, according was immediately before he second Passover (the only interven o the call of Matthew), of April, 781, ews, the . in the iast one was At account of iY. 5 { the cl © { of Luks $ Rol . ’ WOR nsaon, as if the beginning « cording 0 J i ts few weeks late: of the same year. sm A MOSS SE 0 Beauty on Women's Face. to cosmetics are so capable of en- beauty as the smile of good cmper and a desire to please, Deauty , more than ther form of loveliness, capable of cultiva- tion, A woman may! h iy regular features, but her face will be so lit up with the beauty of goodness that she cannot fail to please if she some such which may be according to % v of expression is any « f 100 have periecls * Susan born Resieedt # BiLrives 10 obey Lhe spin ol ¥ mui particular cases: Learn to gover @ nt x f YOurse:i tempers, especially i, Irritation and by prayer i id * Hy ifg ¥ Comings and our $1 ¥ lie wall i y All aved over your words ial valuable f ¥3 flen : 3 wr i idl eC) 5 is Lha more “ i. Slience 18s © too much from forbear and forgive, as you warance and forgiveness not expect fort rseif, 6. Never retort | word, it is the | makes the quarrel, i sia | ye a sharp or angry second word that 7. Beware of the first disagreement. 8. Learn to speak in a gentle tone of voice, 9 Learn to say kind and pleasant | things whenever opportunity offers, 10, Study the character o! each and | sympathize with all in their Lroubles, | however small 11. Do not neglect little it they can affect the comfort of others in the smallest degree, 12. Avoid moods and pets and {ts sulkiness, | 13. Learn to deny yourself and pre- i fer others, | 14. Beware of i | 1 i Liangs, of meddlers and tale Arers. ! 15. Never charge a bad motive, if a good one is conceivable, 16. De gentle and firm with child- ren. The last rule refers often a husband is far d'flicult to manage. If, 1onever, a wile can Keep her temper, an persevere in her efforts | to please, Coe Wil iu the end conquer by Mess, ¢hildren, but Badae —— ASA What a Wile Should Dao. | A wife must learn how to form her | husband's happiness; in what direction the secret of his comfort lies; she must wot cherish his weakness by working upon them, she must not rashly run counter to his prejudices, Her motto must be never to irritate, She must study never to draw largely upon the small stock of patience in man’s na. ture; nor to intreass his obstinacy by trying to drive lum; never, if possible, to have scenes, 1 doubt much if a real quarrel, even if up, does not loosen the bond between man and Wife, Sid some Hues, wtless the affec- tion of both be very sincere, lastingly. If irritation does occur, 4 WOmAn must
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