ecome neglectful of the comfort,
welfare and happiness of the wife. She in her tender, sympathetic nature
seeks for attention and delights in being loved. Do not therefore be
sparing in your attention toward her. The fond, affectionate wife will
meet the duties, trials, afflictions and responsibilities of life without
a murmur does she but know that she is loved. Enter into her joys and
sorrows with a regard. "Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the
wife of thy youth.... Be thou ravished always with her love." Prov. 5:18,
19. Malachi exhorts the husband to faithfulness. "Yet ye say, Wherefore?
Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth,
against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and
the wife of thy covenant." Chap. 2:14. Such are some of the duties of a
husband, and he who has cast aside regard for such duties, is a stranger
to the covenant of grace.

Duties Of The Wife To The Husband.

It is a just cause of lament that so comparatively few wives have a
perfect knowledge of their rightful position in the domestic circle. We
will briefly give a few texts from the Holy Book showing the wife her true
place in the family and her duty toward her husband, trusting God to give
her a desire to be all that a wife should be. The fundamental principle is
love. Without sincere, conjugal love she can scarcely fill the mission of
wife. When woman becomes a wife she takes a position fraught with the
greatest responsibilities. Oh, how many idle dreamers take such positions
with little feeling, thought or comprehension of its responsibilities, and
pass through life away below the true mission of a wife. The instruction
of the inspired apostle is that the young women be sober, love their
husbands, love their children, be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,
obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:4, 5.

Such are the demands of the young wife made by the Word of God. The demand
made of the aged wives is that they set a proper example in all these
things. When they do not fill these demands the Word of God is blasphemed.
When wives professing to be Christians and a light in the world are
neglectful of home, of husband and children, they bring Christianity into
disrepute. Wives are commanded to be sober. Instead of sobriety how often
we see them gay, silly, foolish and worldly-minded. Their thoughts are
trashy, and their c