A Moment With Your Minister...
I want to begin this column by extending my congratulations to Dan and Tracie Carter who were united in marriage yesterday. Marriage was ordained by God Himself and is one of the greatest blessings that He has ever provided for mankind. My prayer for them is that God will bless them with many happy years of marital bliss. I know that He will, if they will follow the instructions He has given in His holy word pertaining to the duties of husbands and wives.
Secondly, since this is the holiday in the USA on which we honor “fathers”, it seems timely to reprint the following:
TEN COMMANDMENTS...
For Wives!
(1) Honor thine own womanhood that thy days may be long and happy in the house which thy husband provideth thee.
(2) Expect not thy husband to give thee as many luxuries at first as thy father hath given thee after many years of hard labor and economies.
(3) Forget not the virtue of good humor for verily all that a man hath will he give for a woman’s smile.
(4) Thou shalt not nag.
(5) Thou shalt speak well of thy husband.
(6) Remember that the frank approval of thy husband is worth more to thee than the sidelong glances of many strangers.
(7) Forget not the grace of cleanliness and good dressing.
(8) Permit no one to assure thee that thou art having a hard time of it.
(9) Keep thy home with all diligence for out of it will come the joys of thine old age.
(10) Commit thy ways unto the Lord thy God and thy children shall rise up and call thee blessed.
For Husbands!
(1) Remember that thy wife is thy partner and not thy property.
(2) Do not expect thy wife to be wife and wage earner at the same time.
(3) Think not that thy business is none of thy wife’s business.
(4) Thou shalt hold thy wife’s love by the same means that thou won it.
(5) Thou shalt make the building of thy home thy first business.
(6) Thou shall co-operate with thy wife in establishing family dis-cipline.
(7) Thou shalt enter into the house with cheerfulness.
(8) Thou shalt not let anyone criticize thy wife to thy face and get away with it; neither thy father nor thy mother, nor thy brethren, nor thy sisters, nor thy children.
(9) Thou shalt not take thy wife for granted.
(10) Remember thy home and keep it holy.
For Parents!
(1) Thou shalt love thy child with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, but wisely.
(2) Thou shalt think of thy child, not as something belonging to thee, but as a person.
(3) Thou shalt regard his respect and love, not as something to be demanded, but something worth earning.
(4) Every time thou art out of patience with thy child’s immaturity, thou shalt call to mind some of thine own mistakes attending thine own coming of age.
(5) Remember, that it is thy child’s privilege to make a hero out of thee, and take thought to be a proper one.
(6) Remember that thy example is more eloquent than thy fault finding and moralizing.
(7) Thou shalt strive to be a signpost on the highway of life, rather than a rut out of which the wheel cannot run.
(8) Thou shalt teach thy child to stand on his own feet and to fight his own battles.
(9) Thou shalt help thy child to see beauty, to appreciate kindness, to love the truth, and to live in friendship.
(10) Thou shalt make of the place wherein thou dwellest a real home–a haven of happiness for thyself–for thy children–for thy friends and thy children’s friends.
Author Unknown
I want to begin this column by extending my congratulations to Dan and Tracie Carter who were united in marriage yesterday. Marriage was ordained by God Himself and is one of the greatest blessings that He has ever provided for mankind. My prayer for them is that God will bless them with many happy years of marital bliss. I know that He will, if they will follow the instructions He has given in His holy word pertaining to the duties of husbands and wives.
Secondly, since this is the holiday in the USA on which we honor “fathers”, it seems timely to reprint the following:
TEN COMMANDMENTS...
For Wives!
(1) Honor thine own womanhood that thy days may be long and happy in the house which thy husband provideth thee.
(2) Expect not thy husband to give thee as many luxuries at first as thy father hath given thee after many years of hard labor and economies.
(3) Forget not the virtue of good humor for verily all that a man hath will he give for a woman’s smile.
(4) Thou shalt not nag.
(5) Thou shalt speak well of thy husband.
(6) Remember that the frank approval of thy husband is worth more to thee than the sidelong glances of many strangers.
(7) Forget not the grace of cleanliness and good dressing.
(8) Permit no one to assure thee that thou art having a hard time of it.
(9) Keep thy home with all diligence for out of it will come the joys of thine old age.
(10) Commit thy ways unto the Lord thy God and thy children shall rise up and call thee blessed.
For Husbands!
(1) Remember that thy wife is thy partner and not thy property.
(2) Do not expect thy wife to be wife and wage earner at the same time.
(3) Think not that thy business is none of thy wife’s business.
(4) Thou shalt hold thy wife’s love by the same means that thou won it.
(5) Thou shalt make the building of thy home thy first business.
(6) Thou shall co-operate with thy wife in establishing family dis-cipline.
(7) Thou shalt enter into the house with cheerfulness.
(8) Thou shalt not let anyone criticize thy wife to thy face and get away with it; neither thy father nor thy mother, nor thy brethren, nor thy sisters, nor thy children.
(9) Thou shalt not take thy wife for granted.
(10) Remember thy home and keep it holy.
For Parents!
(1) Thou shalt love thy child with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, but wisely.
(2) Thou shalt think of thy child, not as something belonging to thee, but as a person.
(3) Thou shalt regard his respect and love, not as something to be demanded, but something worth earning.
(4) Every time thou art out of patience with thy child’s immaturity, thou shalt call to mind some of thine own mistakes attending thine own coming of age.
(5) Remember, that it is thy child’s privilege to make a hero out of thee, and take thought to be a proper one.
(6) Remember that thy example is more eloquent than thy fault finding and moralizing.
(7) Thou shalt strive to be a signpost on the highway of life, rather than a rut out of which the wheel cannot run.
(8) Thou shalt teach thy child to stand on his own feet and to fight his own battles.
(9) Thou shalt help thy child to see beauty, to appreciate kindness, to love the truth, and to live in friendship.
(10) Thou shalt make of the place wherein thou dwellest a real home–a haven of happiness for thyself–for thy children–for thy friends and thy children’s friends.
Author Unknown
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