Excerpt from Words in Season But, as the marital union, if it is to be lastingly happy, imposes sacred duties upon the man as well as upon the woman, exacts faithfulness and devotion from the husband as well as from the wife, so does a union between a ministerand his congregation involve serious and responsible duties on the part of both, if it is to prove fruitful to each of them as well as to the community at large. Not one who has studied the conditions that make for success or failure in marital life, but knows that where there is no husband's love there cannot be a wife's lasting affection, that love is the necessary element of a woman's life, that to live she must love, and to love she must be loved in return, that with a husband's love there is no sacrifice within a wife's power of which she is not capable, no duty, no matter how trying, which she is not ready to perform, that without a husband's love and cheer and encouragement their home is built on quicksand, that with them it is built on rocks which neither time nor circumstance can move. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.