onversation the same; talking about one another,
busybodies, no depth of thought or feeling of their mission in life, but
are concerned more about the fashions and society than the duties of home.
Such characters disgrace the cause of Christ. True love will manifest
itself, and where the wife loves the husband, home is her dearest place.
Her great life work is to make home happy and attractive. She has a deep
regard for the comforts of her lord, and love lightens all her labor for
him. The true wife loves her children, which will also find its
manifestation.

Among the coarse and vulgar we have heard mothers in provocation speak
thus to their children: "Haven't you any sense?" "You are the foolishest
thing I ever saw." "I'll box your head off." "I'll beat you to death." "I
wish you were dead," and other like expressions. Such is awful language,
but it has escaped the lips of many a mother. Before the public they like
to appear gentle, mild and sweet tempered, while in the privacy of their
homes they are snarly, snappish and cross. When it pleases God to remove
one of their little ones to a more peaceful home above they mourn most
bitterly; more because of remorse of conscience than from a fountain of
pure love. There is, however, many a mother who longs to be tender and
kind to her loved ones, but because of her bondage to the tyrannical power
of an ill, impatient temper, she utters, under provocation, unfeeling,
inhuman speech toward her little ones. In her calmer hours she weeps
because of bondage. To all such we would say, There is help for you in
God. Jesus can set you free. Yield yourself to him. He will pardon your
sins and sweeten your life by his grace. To be discreet, wise, prudent,
selecting the best means to accomplish a noble purpose is the wife's
mission in her home.

The wife is a type of the church. "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give
honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made
herself ready." Rev. 19:7. "Come hither, and I will show thee the bride,
the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God." Rev. 21:9, 10. The husband is to love the wife as
Christ loved the church; and as the church reverences and obeys, is
faithful and subject to Christ, the wife is to reverence, obey and be
faithful and subject to her husband. "Nevertheless let every one of you