. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER HI. MARRIAGE-MADE MEN. A -wifes a mans best peace, who, till he marries,Wants making up. , , , She is the good mans paradise, and the badsFirst step to heaven.—Sliirky. Th ever womanlyDraweth us onward ! - -GodJie. This is well,To have a dame indoors, that trims us up,And keeps us tight.—Tennyson. F there be any 7nan—women are seldom anti-matrimonial bigots—who seriously doubts that\S\Q. pros in favour of marriage more than counter-balance the cons^ we commend to his considera-tion a few historical instances in which menh
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER HI. MARRIAGE-MADE MEN. A -wifes a mans best peace, who, till he marries,Wants making up. , , , She is the good mans paradise, and the badsFirst step to heaven.—Sliirky. Th ever womanlyDraweth us onward ! - -GodJie. This is well,To have a dame indoors, that trims us up,And keeps us tight.—Tennyson. F there be any 7nan—women are seldom anti-matrimonial bigots—who seriously doubts that\S\Q. pros in favour of marriage more than counter-balance the cons^ we commend to his considera-tion a few historical instances in which menhave been made men in the highest sense of the word bymarriage. We do not endorse the exaggerated statement of Richterthat no man can live piously or die righteously without a. MARRIAGE-MADE 21 Avife, but we think that the chances of his doing so are con-siderably lessened. It is not good for a man to hve alone withhis evil thoughts. The checks and active duties of marriageiire the best antidote, not only to an impure life, but to thedreaming and droning of a useless and purposeless one. Certainly there are some men and women who withoutwives or husbands are marriage-made in the sense of havingtheir love and powers drawn out by interesting work. Theyare married to some art or utihty, or instead of loving one theylove all. When this last is the case they go down into thehaunts of evil, seek out the wretched, and spare neither them-selves nor their money in their Christ-like enthusiasm foihumanity. But the luxury of doing good is by no meantconfined to the celibate. On the contrary, the man with zwife and children in whose goodness and happiness he rejoicesmay be much better prepared to aid and sympathize with theerring and the suffering. The flood-gates
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