The Secret of Brotherly Love by Andrew Murray

TWENTY-NINTH DAY.
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" My brother ] onathan: very pl~asant
hast thou been unto me : thy love to
me was wonderful, passing the love of
women."-2 SAM. i. 26.
OD created man in order to show
G what the power of love is, when
a man strives for the welfare of others,
and even gives up his life for them. He
created woman to show what tenderness
and quiet endurance are, when she
sacrifices herself for the sake of others.
A little child, during the first years of its
life, is dependent on the mother. It is
not only that the child may learn to
love its mother, but that the mother
herself may be trained in the school of
self-sacrificing love, for her greatest
adorning is, " the ornament of a meek
and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of
God of great price" (1 Pet. iii. 4) .
The tendency nowadays in public life
is to place woman on an equal footing
with man. This is only right in many
cases. But one must not forget that
the best ornament of a woman is a meek
and quiet spirit, which is of great p1ice
in the sight of God, and of man, and which
makes her a blessing in her home. It
is the suffering, prayerful, all-conquering
love of the wife and the mother which
secures the happiness of a people.
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