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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 22, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 25.

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Supported His Wife

By J. H. Hartog

A YOUNG man marries. He promises to love and support his wife. His father tells him to take of his weekly wage and hand it to her to buy food and clothes.
Monday morning his father asks him, “Have you fulfilled your promise?”
“Yes, father.”
“Have you fulfilled your duty?”
“Yes, father.”
“Very well, my boy! That is right.”
“O, but,” says the boy, “next week I do not have to give her any of my money, do I?”
“Why, of course you do,” replies the astonished father. “What makes you talk such nonsense?”
“Why, father,” answers the son, with a knowing smile, “you admit that I have ‘fulfilled’ my duty and my promise, and you told me that when Jesus fulfilled the law, He ‘did away with it.’ So then if that is the meaning of ‘fulfill,’ why, by your own argument, I do not have to support my wife any more.”
Poor father! He would not have much of a reply to make, would he?
J. H. HARTOG.