. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . f the letters of Robertson, of Brighton, he tells of ;ilady who related to him the delight, the tears of gratitude 15 2IO HOW 70 BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. vrhxch. she had witnessed in a poor girl to whom, in passing, 1gave a kind look on going out of church on Sunday. \Vhat alesson ! How cheaply happiness can be given ! What oppor-tunities we miss of doing an angels work! I remember doingit, full of sad feelings, passing on, and thinking no more aboutit; and it gave an hours sunshine to a human life, and light-ened the load of lif
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . f the letters of Robertson, of Brighton, he tells of ;ilady who related to him the delight, the tears of gratitude 15 2IO HOW 70 BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. vrhxch. she had witnessed in a poor girl to whom, in passing, 1gave a kind look on going out of church on Sunday. \Vhat alesson ! How cheaply happiness can be given ! What oppor-tunities we miss of doing an angels work! I remember doingit, full of sad feelings, passing on, and thinking no more aboutit; and it gave an hours sunshine to a human life, and light-ened the load of life to a human heart for a time! If evena look can do so much, who shall estimate the power of kindor unkind words in making married life happy or miserable ?In the home circle more than anywhere else— Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heavens light upon their wings ;Every word has its own spri^, True or false that never dies ;Every word mans lips have uttered Echoes in Gods CHAPTER XXIII. PULLING TOGETHER. AVIicn souls, that should agree to will the same,To have one common object for their wishes,LooU different ways, regardless of each other,Think what a train of wretchedness ensues ! AID a husband to his angry wife: Look atCarlo and Kitty asleep on the rug; I wish menlived half as agreeably with their wives. Stop ! said the lady. Tie them together,and see how they will agree ! If men and•women when tied together sometimes agree very badly what isthe reason ? Because instead of pulling together each of them■wishes to have his or her own way. But when they do pull•together what greater thing is there for them than to feel thatthey are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labour,■to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other all pain, to be one with each other in the silent unspeakablejnemories at the moment of the last parting ?
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