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Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his countenance shall be cheerful 
at all times.”* 
Therefore, if thou hast a wife according to thy soul, cast her not off. 
“Husbands,” says St. Paul, “love your wives as Christ also loved the 
Church, and delivered himself up for it.So also ought men to love 
their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. 
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth it and cherisheth 
it, as also Christ doth the Church.”-—Ephes. v., 25, 28-29. 
“Let (therefore) everyone love his wife as himself; and let the wife 
fear her husband.”—Eph. v, 33. 
A poet sings: 
Take her, but be faithful still, 
And may the bridal vow 
Be sacred held in after years, 
And warmly breathed as now; 
Remember His no common tie 
That binds her youthful heart: 
His one that only truth should weave 
And only death can part. 
The joys of childhood’s happy hour. 
The home of riper years; 
The treasured scenes of early youth, 
In sunshine and in tears; 
The purest hopes her bosom knew. 
When her young heart was free,— 
All these and more she now resigns, 
To brave the world with thee. 
Then take her, and may fleeting Time 
Mark only joy’s increase; 
And may your days glide sweetly on 
In happiness and peace. 
— Anon. 
♦Ecclus. xxvi 1-4. 
