To be near unto God - pagina 489

father and mother can suffice for the mixed family, and where either of the two falls away, the task of the remaining one of making due allowance for the difference of nature and disposition of son and daughter is extremely difThis applies as well to man and wife ficult. especially when one has made farther advances The in the way of salvation than the other. pious wife who longs to win the hesitating husband defeats her own purpose, when she aims to graft her feminine soul-life upon him likewise the husband who for the sake of winning his wife for God tries to drive her in the spiritual yoke of his own masculine life, is himself the cause of ;

The husband should indeed strengthen the wife spiritually, and accustom her to storm and fire,, and the wife should refine the husband spiritually, and accustom him to the sound of gentle stillness, but the fundamental trait of the proper soul-life of each must remain inviolate. The wife lives near unto God differentl}' from the husband. his bitter disappointment.

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a period of against everything that desecrates God's covenant. But after victory is won, there comes a time of calm and peace, of quiet work for God's Kingdom, in the struggle against sin, misery and woe. And it is frequently observed, that men who in the first period nobly persevered, and showed in themselves men full of the Holy Ghost, in the next period of rest and peace, visibly retrograded, and deserted their former spiritual vantage-ground. 485

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