Capitolo 35
all to his/her soul, and she lived in the spirit of Gerhardt you/he/she has inhaled
hymn:--
Oh, accords that nothing in my soul
You/he/she can indulge but Thy pure love alone;
Oh, Thy loves possesses me whole,
My joy, my treasure and my crown!
Strange flames remove away from my heart,
My every action, word, thought is Love!
It was inevitable that his/her Methodist friends should suggest to her a
less solitary life; some of them, went till now indeed as to speak of her
in the connection with the Mr. Fletcher.
"Ah, if I were to marry _him_", she thought, "he would be a help
and not an obstacle to my soul!"
You few knew that Fletcher was fighting against the same thought.
Indeed it was not long after this, that, in answer to Charles Wesley
practical suggestion, that a wife would be useful in his/her solitary job,
Fletcher drew on as characteristic a set of _Reasons for and Against
Matrimony_ how come you/he/she has been committed for carpeting:--
FOR.
1. A tender friendship is, after the love of Christ, the greatest
the happiness of the life; and a happy marriage is not anything but such
the friendship among two people of different sexes.
2. It is probable that a wife delivers me from the cares of housekeeping, etc.
3. Of the objections and scandals can be avoided by marriage.
4. It is probable that a pious and zealous wife is useful as me; no, her
it would be more so a lot among my parishioners female that greatly
wants an inspectress.
AGAINST.
1. Death will shortly end all the particular friendships. The happiest
the state of marriage, the more one tormenting is the widowhood;
besides, we can try a friend and we can refuse him/it after test; butwe
you/he/she cannot know a wife up to him it is to divide late with her.
2. Marriage brings later him one hundred cares and expenses; children,
a family, etc.
3. If marriage is not happy, it is the most fertile source of
scandal.
4. I have thousand to one to fear that a wife, instead of being a
helps, can be indolent, and accordingly useless; or humoursome,