ould say
in conclusion, and I mention it last as being the most important, let
your choice of a wife be a subject of earnest prayer to God, and when
your choice has been made, and your love pledged one to another, let it
be a subject of mutual prayer that each may help the other to live to the
glory of God, in the station of life in which he sees fit to place you.

HUSBANDS.

The headship of a family carries with it heavy responsibilities. We may
shrink from them and avoid them, but still they remain. A good husband
and a good father makes a happy home and honest children. Drunkenness is
too often the destruction of home. If the head of the family can rule
himself in this as in other matters then he may reasonably hope for a
happy and comfortable home, but if drink is allowed to take the place of
wife or children, drink will rule the household and swallow up its peace
and prosperity. Nevertheless, drunkenness is not by any means the only
fault or indeed the beginning of the break up of a home. It is very
often the result of a home made miserable by other and easily avoided
faults. Many I suppose start their married life with the full intention
of realising their ideas of a happy home. The picture is very pleasant,
the reality is too often quite the reverse. Why? Very often because of
a want of mutual forbearance. It takes some little time really to know
one another, and unless there is a spirit of mutual forbearance the
little differences will become great quarrels. The husband is to rule,
but he is not to be a tyrant. The wife is not bound to give a blind
obedience to all his commands, and the husband is bound to respect his
wife's wishes. It ought to be a rule that in matters of importance,
where either feels it to be a question of duty, that if they cannot agree
neither should endeavour to force the other to act against their
conscience.

My first piece of practical advice to husbands would be to have a proper
understanding about money matters, and to be liberal therein. Give your
wife a regular sum per week, and let it be clearly arranged what expenses
she is responsible for.

Secondly, do not have any friends that you cannot or do not care to bring
to your home, and let no one come between you and your wife, or draw you
away to enjoy yourself apart from her.

Thirdly, do your church-going together as far as you can, and when that
is impossible arrange one with the other, so that each may