Such be your gentle motion Till life's last pulse shall beat : Like summer's beam and summer's stream A calmer sea, where storms shall cease; WHE THE HELPMEET. Brainard. HEN on her Maker's bosom No sin his face defiling, The heir of Nature stood; And God, benignly smiling, Beheld that all was good. Yet, in that hour of blessing, A single want was known, A wish the heart distressing; For Adam was alone. Bishop Heber. THE THE ABSENT ONE.. (HE sigh that rises at the thought of a dear one may be almost as genial as his voice. It is a breath that seems rather to come from him than from ourselves. Landor. I LOVE VERSUS AGE. FEEL that I am growing old for want of young as ever. Charming falsehood! There IV. THE BERYL. MUTUAL LOVE. The most admired displays a softened beam, THE BERYL. DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES. HUSBANDS, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Let every one of you, in particular, so love his wife even as himself. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh. Husbands, love your wives; even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church. Let the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ye wives, be in subjection to your own hus |