Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-21

| the feminine " Affection" When there is q true
spiritual affinity between the two, then the design is
accomplished sFt
Premature marriages are among the greatest evils
of the times and it will not be bad idea in these
days of reforms, if an marrying-in-a hurry
society" were instituted. Now a-days, people leap
into the magic circle with more consideration
than they would partake of dinner-litte thinking
that when once in, they are there ill their end
comes There is little sometimes no mutual anaIy-
sis of dispositions and comparison of taste anu al
fections They to fancy that if there are any
discrepancies the fatal Grodian knot, which can be
seldom cut and never untieG will harmonic at ALL
The numbers who have felt this truth-the num-
bers still feeling it to their hearts core-are ncacu-
liable. They recognize it as the great mistake OF
their lives. The chain is not to them silken one,
but cable of iron, that tightens around them more
and more, crushing all hope and energy, SUBSTITUTE
ing hate for love, and eating out with its rust the very
inner life of the soul.
BOYS and girls marry to a greater extent
than ever before instead of waiting till they become
full grown and matured and women The
young dandy, he cts out of short Jackets
and finds little trze gathered on his upper lip,
and the young Miss soon as they emerge from
the nursery and abbreviated rocks, think they are
qualified to assume the most solemn responsibilities
Of life. And so, if " Pa and " Ma" won't consent,
they post off to Gretna Green, and there take
obligations they will cease bitterly. to repent
Marriage should never be the result of fancy. The
ballroom and the evening party rarely develop char
Under the eXhlarating influence Of the dance
the glaze of the lights, and the merry squib and joke
the dissoiutc young man may appear ainlabc, and
the sattcrnly Scoid lovcable Matches made at such
places, under similar circumstances, are not of
the class that originated in Heaven. They more
generally conceived i'll the opposite place, and
bling forth only inquiry. The true way to learn
each other is at home in the paror, in the kitchen,
and occasions that test the temper. We see the
result of these unions in the almost daily divorces
that taking place. in the running away of huS
bands, leaving their wives and children to starye,
and the copment of wives Not only this but the
broken-sprited men, made old in the prime OF life,
struggling on for mere food and clothing and shell
ter, and in women cross, dirty, sutsh, and wrir:k-
led.
1t would be quite impossible for us to depict faith
fully the multitude of physical and moral evils that
result from these sinful aliiances-f0r sinful they
They ruin the body, corrupt the morals, stul
tify the mind. And the result does not stop with
husband and wife. There the children; they
partake Of the fcebleness and vices of the parents,
both physical and moral and so out into the busy
world stunted and gnarlcd God pity them!
We would not be understood speaking against
the institution Of marriage 1t is holy beautiful and
benefcent. But let every one take his mate none.
Let not The brave eagle pair with the stupid owl,
nor the gentle dove with the carrion crow. Like
should have like 1t is glorious sight TO two
old people, who have weathered the storm and baSk-
cd in the sunshine of life together, go hand in hand
lovingly down the gentle decivity of time, with no
anger, no jealousy, nor hatred garnered up against
each other, and looking with hope and joy to that
everlasting youth of heaven, where the shall be
Ole forever. That is true marriase-for it is the
marriage of spirit with spirit. The love is woven
into woof of gold that neither time nor eternity
sever. Tie E2ectic.
THE TRIUMPH BIG WORDS AID VKruE.-'' I'ir-
tue rW Triumph" is the title of an Grafton 3" de-
liv ercd by w. l.. SymonS, ESQ., Of the " Cyrikogian
Society,"" of the village of Mount-Vernon, Ohio,
the occasion of 4 contest between the - Excelsior"
and the Cyrilogian" Society aforesaid both of
that place. We give the opening passage, which,
model of perspicuity and simplicity of language
we have aIey seen approached much less equaiied.
Mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the following.
1t is presented cerJain ct EtcrutiD ct unctUutin,:
In observing the pending crisis of the world, and
searching for theme appropriate to the present
caslon, the most expressive presents itself
&" Virtue trW 1riamph."' This has been dwelt up
on as theme of peculiar interest. Orators have
exhausted their spacious fund of rolling genius in
delineating the ncomprchensible vicissudes of Vr.
tue. Wise and pruden philosophers, with tacit i'll
tcrgationS, have levied upon it the proioundes pow
ers of the mind while the world, in anxious num-
berS attracted by inherent curiosity, turns it
socitous eye. RetroSpectivey waiting mental
visions back upon the stream of time, all along the
regular routine of provdcntial jurisdiction behold
the approximate determinations of morality, the
arious aboica javelins of Satanic influence malic-
iously hurled upon the Jealous indicators of truth,
the procrastinating comperendinations and the
aguations Of the liquid stream of eternal liie the
somniferous lethargy and stupeaction of the most
inveerate defenders of justice, the laundering vol
canoes of sin, exhaling the smoke and dark
malaria of their suberranean cavities, projecting the
fiery meeors of destruction high into the moral at
mosphere while the obstinate of melted lava
vehcmenty dash, with furious precipitancc down
the rugged prccipce etfrmnating, breaking down,
and overwhelming the vcrdant forests which
spread the volcanic slopes, Immediately bearing every
vestge of moral goodness from their respective stu
atoms, sweeping them down and suffocatng them
beneath the Heterogeneous aggregatons Of concu-
piscence and immortality below This, ladies and
gentlemen, is epitomzed panorama Of the cpcu-
rcan performances at which phanthropists, patri-
OTIS, and Christians have reluctantly gazed for many
of the last anterior centuries of the world; and
earths most fiery hels haye boon tcrriically un-
capped, and the pestential stream has rolled down
happifying Edens, propagating Internal dragons,
naked devils, and hot dannation, until philanthropy
lists have inferred their benecen motives of univer-
sal liberation, and themselves have sunken down in
to unvel sal gloom amorous patriots have been dis
turbed lest their voluntary immoations should not
be responded. while Christians, with hearts bent
with anxious solicitations have watched
the approaching gloom. But this chroncal routine
of affairs in the moral world is to be revou-
tionized, and q" Virtue aoiU Triumph"
The foregoing, if we'll doubled up and judgmati- !
cally thrown, would overset all Sevastopol. |
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