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In life’s toilsome way let the husband and father “lead on softly,”
as the companion of his journey is able to endure. Amidst the world’s
eager rush for wealth and power, let him learn to stay his steps, to
comfort and support the one who is called to walk by his side....
Let the husband aid his wife by his sympathy and unfailing affec-
tion. If he wishes to keep her fresh and gladsome, so that she will be as
sunshine in the home, let him help her bear her burdens. His kindness
and loving courtesy will be to her a precious encouragement, and the
happiness he imparts will bring joy and peace to his own heart....
If the mother is deprived of the care and comforts she should have,
if she is allowed to exhaust her strength through overwork or through
anxiety and gloom, her children will be robbed of the vital-force and
of the mental elasticity and cheerful buoyancy they should inherit. Far
better will it be to make the mother’s life bright and cheerful, to shield
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her from want, wearing labor, and depressing care, and let the children
inherit good constitutions, so that they may battle their way through
life with their own energetic strength
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