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do not interfere in their behalf. By so doing 
you teach them to set her authority at nought. 
But time would fail me, were I to attempt 
giving directions in every particular relative to 
the proper conduct of married persons towards 
each other, and towards their children. The 
Word of God abounds with instructions as to 
our mutual duties; I shall therefore conclude 
with this piece of advice. 
"' Husbands, love your wives, and be not 
bitter against them ; ' ' live with them according 
to knowledge, for no man ever yet hated his 
own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, 
even as the Lord the Church.' * Rejoice with 
the wife of thy youth, and be thou always 
satisfied with her love; for she is thy com- 
panion, and the wife of thy covenant.' 'Go 
not after a stranger; and let none deal treacher- 
ously against the wife of his youth.' 
" 'Wives, be in subjection to your own hus- 
bands; that, if any obey not the word, they 
also may without the word be won by the con- 
versation of the wives ; while they behold your 
chaste conversation coupled with fear.' 'For 
after this manner in the old time the holy 
women, who trusted in God, were in subjection 
to their own husbands: even as Sarah obeyed 
Abraham, calling him lord; whose daughters 
ye are, as long as ye do well.' 
"And for your comfort and commendation, 
and to induce in you a deportment in conformity 
with the will of God, remember it is expressly 
said, 'A prudent wife is from the Lord. The 
heart of her husband doth safely trust in her; 
