under the stress of dire disaster. She is called the weaker vessel;
but all profane as well as sacred history attests that, when the
crisis comes, she is better prepared than man to meet the emergency.
How often you have seen a woman who seemed to be a disciple of
frivolity and indolence, who, under one stroke of calamity, changed to
a heroine. Oh, what a great mistake those business men make who never
tell their business troubles to their wives! There comes some great
loss to their store, or some of their companions in business play them
a sad trick, and they carry the burden all alone. He is asked in the
household, again and again, "What is the matter?" but he believes it a
sort of Christian duty to keep all that trouble within his own soul.
Oh sir, your first duty was to