- pathize, to counsel and to endure than the highest
qualities of the hero or the saint. It is by this alone that the married life attains its full perfection."
And when we hear, as we so often do, of the
complete failure and deplorable disaster attending
many marriages, let us look for the root of the evil
at its foundation,—namely the decay of home life,
the neglect and avoidance of home and home
duties,—the indifference to, or scorn of home influence.
For whenever any woman, rich or poor,
high in rank or of humble estate, throws these
aside, and turns her back on Home, her own natural,
beautiful and thrice-blessed sphere of action, she
performs what would be called the crazed act of a
queen, who, called to highest sovereignty, casts
away her crown, breaks her sceptre, tramples on
her royal robes, and steps from her throne, down;—down
into the dust of a saddened world's contempt.
