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The mother too often meets with cold reserve<br />
from the father. If everything does not move off<br />
just as pleasantly as he could wish, he blames the<br />
wife and mother, and seems indifferent to her cares<br />
and daily trials. Men who do this are working<br />
directly against their own interest and happiness.<br />
The mother becomes discouraged. Hope and<br />
cheerfulness depart from her. She goes about her<br />
work mechanically, knowing that it must be done,<br />
which soon debilitates physical and mental health.<br />
Children are born to them, suffering from various<br />
diseases, and God holds the parents accountable in<br />
a great degree; for it was their wrong habits which<br />
fastened disease upon their unborn children, under<br />
which they are compelled to suffer all through their<br />
lives. Some live but a short period with their load<br />
of debility. The mother anxiously watches over the<br />
life of her child, and is weighed down with sorrow<br />
as she is compelled to close its eyes in death, and<br />
she often regards God as the author of all this<br />
affliction, when the parents in reality were the<br />
murderers of their own child.<br />
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