. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . criAPTErs. I. HOW TO CE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. • How delicious is the winningOf a kiss at loves beginning,When two mutual hearts are sighingFor the knot theres no untying ! —T. CamphcH. Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creaturein this world can receive, namely, to be free from all is not like the hill Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.—Fuller. jOW to be happy tJioiigh married. This was thequaint title o
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . criAPTErs. I. HOW TO CE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. • How delicious is the winningOf a kiss at loves beginning,When two mutual hearts are sighingFor the knot theres no untying ! —T. CamphcH. Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creaturein this world can receive, namely, to be free from all is not like the hill Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.—Fuller. jOW to be happy tJioiigh married. This was thequaint title of one of Skeltons sermons, whichwould certainly cause a momentary cloud ofindignation, not to say of alarm, to pass overthe minds of a newly-married couple, should they discover it when skimming through a collection of old volumes on the first wet day of their honeymoon. Two young persons thrown together by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, and go home to dream of each other. Finding themselves rather. 2 HOJV TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. uncomfortable apart, they think they necessarily must be happytogether. But there is no such necessity. In marriage themeasure of our happiness is usually in proportion to our deserts. •* No man eer gained a happy life by chance,Or yawned it into being with a wish. This, however, is just what many novices think they can do\\\ reference to matrimony. They fancy that it has a magicl)Ower of conferring happiness almost in spite of themselves,and are quite surprised when experience teaches them thatdomestic felicity, like everything else worth having, must beworked for—must be earned by patient endurance, self-restraint,and loving consideration for the tastes, and even for the faults,of him or her with whom life is to be lived. And yet before the first year of married life has ended, mostpeople discover that Skeltons subject, How to be happythough married, was not an unpractical one. Then th
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