HUSBAND AND WIFE by Sel.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 26, 1869

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

By Sel.

PRESERVE the privacies of your house, your marriage state, and your hearts, from father, mother, brother, sister, and all the world. Between you two let no third person come to share the secret joy or grief that belongs to yourselves alone. Do you two, with God's help, build your own quiet world, not allowing the dearest earthly friend to be the confidant of aught that concerns your domestic peace. Let moments of alienation, if they occur, be healed and forgotten in after moments and years of faithful, devoted love; but never let the wall of another's confidence be built up between you and your wife's or husband's heart. Promise this to yourselves, and to each other. Review the vow at every temptation; you will find your account in it; your souls will grow as it were together, and at last become as one. Ah! if many a young pair had, on their wedding-day, known this all-important secret, how many marriages would have been happier than, alas, they are!—Sel.