Plain but Wholesome Words.
THE late R. J. McGhee, of Dublin, in his lectures on the Ephesians, has this passage: "I have known some wives, making confession of Christ and married to ungodly men, who have made religion odious to their husbands by the way in which they acted towards them, thinking that because they were religious and their husbands not, therefore they should regulate and order everything their own way. Let a woman remember that her husband's character, as being a believer or an unbeliever, does not change her relation, nor consequently her duty, to him. She should, if possible, be only the more scrupulous and careful in the discharge of that duty. It is a grievous evil when the effect of religion is to lead its professors to neglect of duty or an unamiable temper. I have known, on the contrary, a pious woman married to an ungodly man so to adorn the doctrine of Christ that she made religion sweet even to those who knew it not. She caused them to honor the influence of religion in her, though they did not honor it for its own sake.—Christian Intelligencer."