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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3096, 31 May 1881, Page 4

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■5r Yancey delivered a sermon on mar- ! Pfage, in Louisville, Ky., recently, with the following remarks under the head of. ' Com- I panionship ': ' Marriage is the association of husband and wife. They should be together, except when separated by duty. No company should bo so delightful to the wife as her husbandjS, and the husbr.nd should seek the company of none with the same pleasure as bo seeks tbat of his wife. This is the obligation of marriage. Companionship is help. Husband and wife have a mission to perform, and in accomplishing this mission each has a part. The wife has her domestic duties; the husband his business affairs. Both are essential to success. Each is to be interested in his own sphere, and also in that of the other. God said : 'It is not good for man to be alone ; I will make an help meet for him'—a help worthy of him. A good wife is man's best helper—a helper in his business, a helper in adversity, in poverty. The prevailing notion is that a man is not ready to marry unless he has enough to support a wife. And there are young ladies who would not think of marrying a nun who has no money. Bffgone with all such miserable perversions of marriage! About a hundred years since there lived in London John Flaxman, a young artist of great promise. At 27 years of age, John Fl'ixman married Ann Denman, a cheerful, noble woman. A friend of Flaxman, and an old bachelor, who, of course, was expected to have no better views of marriage, sairl : ' So, Flaxman, I am told you are married ; if so, sir, T tell you you are ruined for an artist.' Going home, Flaxman, taking a seat by his wife, with her hand in his, Baid : 1 Ann, Tarn ruined for an artist.' How so, John ? What has happened, and who has done it ?' 'It happened,' he replied, 'in the church, and Ann Denman has done it.' He went on to tell her what his friend had eaid, how that if an artist would excel, he must bring all his powers to bear on his work, and that if he would become a great artist, he should visit Rome and Florence, and study the great works of Raphael and Michael Angelo and others. ' And I,' said Flaxman, ' would be a great artist.' * And a great artist you shall be," said hiß wife, * and visit Rome, too, if that he really necessary to make you great.' ' But how ?' asked Flaxman. ' Work and economise,' was the reply, ' I will never have it said that Ann Denman ruined -Tohn Flaxman foi an artist.' 'T will go to Rome.' said lie, 'and show the ''»■ i' nl it \vf Uoi ki* for ii man's iroorl i| 1 l| \MI "h il' p ->> t 11 I I If ' an 7 tun DemouT n i hi- pmn i lo of t ih\o wivfw, ] m't fiuget \nn