Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Our subject is the mutual duties of husbands and wives. As individuals we are fragments. God makes the race in parts, and then He gradually puts us together. What I lack you make up; what you lack I make up. I have no more right to blame a man for being different from me than a driving wheel has a right to blame the iron shaft that holds it to the centre. John Wesley balances Calvin's "Institutes." The difficulty is that we are not satisfied with the work that God has given us to do. For more compactness, and that we may be more useful, we are gathered in still smaller circles in the home group. And there you have the same varieties again. If the husband be all impulse, the wife must be all prudence. If one sister be sanguine in her temperament, the other must be lymphatic. Mary and Martha are necessities. The institution of marriage has been defamed in our day. Attempt bus been made to turn marriage into a mere commercial enterprise. 1. My first counsel to you who are setting up homes for yourselves is, — Have Jesus in your new home; let Him who was a guest at Bethany be in your household. Let the Divine blessing drop upon your every hope and expectation. 2. Exercise to the very last possibility of your nature the law of forbearance. Never be ashamed to apologise when you have done wrong in domestic affairs. 3. Do not carry the fire of your temper too near the gunpowder. 4. Make your chief pleasure. circle round your home. 5. Cultivate sympathy of occupation. 6. Let love preside in your home. (T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Can two walk together, except they be agreed? |
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