Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-10

er subjects of complaint than the poverty
of q large proportion of the clergy, and the
all but universal cause of this is to be found
in imprudent marriages. The harm that
clergymen does by allowing himself to
become very poor, is hardly to be told. lu
the first place, he acts one of the worst and
also one of the most conspicuous of bad
examples. A man may preach self-re-
straint and self-denial as long as be pleas
es, bnt if, by reason of his own self-indnl-
gence, he owes money to the butcher, the
baker, aud the tailor, he will preach in
vain; nor will this be all, for he will ex-
hibit to every laborer and mechanic in the
parish practical violation of all these
rules, the observance of which is the indis-
pensable condition of their own respecta-
bility end independence.
Perhaps there is no other walk of life
in which the absolute necessity of reason
able comfort in money matters is proved
so clearly and by so many different though
uncurrent forms of experience, hnt illus
trations of the same principle are to be
found in every walk of life. Lawyers
ought not to tsemble before their clients
nor onght doctors to be afraid of their
| patieats: but if their livelihood and that
of their families entirely depend upon
them, it is not in human, nature to do
otherwise, and the whole nature OF the
relationship is injured in consequence.
SUCCESS IN LIFE.
1t may be observed that, for obvious
reasons. the Importance of prudence in
regard of marriage, to success in any oI
the higher callings in life, is likely to be
moderated. The cases which come before
the world are, of course, all the other way.
II, by dint of great energy, great talent,
or great good fortune, man attains
eminence in his profession, though
he may have married rashly, he is ma
turally and even justifably proud of it;
but the fact that man has sacrificed in
early life honofabte affectionto honorable
ambition, or to sense of duty, is known
to himself alone, and is not one of which
he is likely to boast and'the correspond
ing fact, that, by reason of contracting a
happy marriage, man Shas condemned
himself to n life of obscure. drudgery, and
has given up for daily bread, or suffered to
lie altogether idle, talants that might have
done great and permanent service to man
kind, is one on which it would be invidi-
Gus to insist.
1t does not, however, require any very
wide experience of life to have met with
such cases. 1t would be as easy ms it
would be brutal to mention many of them.
Many an enterprise of great pith aud mo-
ment has been gently smOthered by hap
py marriage, and large family of fine
children. Many vigorous career, both
in action and in speculation, has been cut
short by baby fingers There are things
which many men for their childrel's sake
dare not do, and there are subjects of the
deepest Importance on which they dare not
think, because they cannot take the respon-
sibility of teaching their children tue re-
suits softheirthoughts. Almost every intlu-
ence of our day tends to discourage such
enterprises, and to make individual hap
piness the one object for which men should
live. The higher and purer the ideal of
scuh happiness becomes, the larger is tue
numher and the greater the calibre of the
mind which it enslaves. If mere sensual
enjoyment were put forward as the object
OF life, no one but sot would be misled
by it. Ifmere intellectual greatness were
chosen, it would not affect one man in n
hundred thousand, but domestic happiness
is so beautiful an idol that it will never
want worshippers, and there is great fear
that they will become so numerous and so
Jealous that all other shrines may be de-
serted. 1t thus becomes highly important
to insist upon the fact, that whatever may
be the case with few persons of rare en-
ergy and hexibilityl of mind and body, the
great masses of educated men must accept
as one of the trials incidental to their po-
sition, the chance of. conflict between
their feelings and one of their most impor-
tant duties-the duty of producing some
permanent good effects proportionate to
the lnbor aud self.denial that procured
for them the advantages bywhich they are
distinguished from the rest OF the world
IL is surely unwise to weigh the scale Of
feeling and inclination, ana to stigmatize
the discharge OF one of the most painful
duties ms an act of eowardly Difference TO a
vulgar admiration of wealth.