Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-22

Ell aversion 10 tne 'nOlV estate OF natrl-
mony." Doubtless there arc some, while
there are more who do not marry be-
cause they have not found, as yet, those
who could gain their love, and to many
without being able to give the heart
with the hdnd is abhorrcnt to their ma
lures. Others there are, who are true
to some love that has cntranced them
in the Past-somc old sweet memory, to
which they cling so fondly that they
cannot disengagc themselves from the
spell that holds them with resstlcss
power Some deny themselves the pos
sible happiness of the marriage relation,
that they may minister to the comfort
of those whom Providence has made
dependent upon them for care and hap
piness. | know of an angel of this class
who, as daughter and sister, has sacri
feed the usual aspirations of youth to
her sense of duty, and has grown old in
her beautiful devotion to those to whom
she has given up her life in scll-sacri-
ficing and heavenly ministration.-
Marriage is honorable" but it is by no
means "the chief end Of man" or wo-
man either. 1t has almost unboundcd
possibilities of happiness, and of misery
likewise. When two are united, who
have found themselves "all the world'
to each other, words can but clumsily
describe their enjoyment. If, on the
contrary, they, though legally one are
morally twain how can any body
tell the misery implied in their appar-
ent union
The number of disappointed ones
among the single is very small, even
proportionately compared with the dis
appointed, disguised and really broken
hearted among the married.
Bear this in mind, you, whom in de-
rision, mischief or merriment the world
heartlessly call "old maids.N You are
not as "old," very likely, as you would
have been, if you had been married.
Your hearts have not been worn out by
unrequited affection. You have not
been the slaves of selfish, eXacting, UNI
approaching tyrants. At all events,
you have not thrown yourselves away
upon unloved and unworthy husbands
just to escape the irritating epithet old
maid, as multitudes ofyour sisters have
done. You know just as well as | do,
that girls without number. are every
year married to men they do not, cam
not love just to escape the senseless hon
or of being "old maids" destined to
weep or worry their poor lives away in
unavailing regrets, signing vainly for
the bliss you have too much wisdom
and delicacy to resign. Some marry
for home. You have not done that.
If pleasure withholds from your path
any one, to whom you cannot give oil
yOur heart, and who, withal is worthy
of your love, remain as you are Mar
rage belongs to this life. 1t is the most
delightful of earthly relations, when all
its conditions are fulfilled, but, at best,
it is temporary. ''In heaven they are
neither married nor given in marriage"
and do not know as we have any rea
son to believe that Paul is less happy
there than Peter. Married people in
dulge the pleasing delusion that, though
separated by Death, fora time, they will
renew their relation and go to keeping
house" again, in the other world. Well
they 'front.'. There will be many sweet
reunion, but not as husbands and a0ices,
will they meet and live together there.
They will not be even mate and female
in heaven. They will be like the 'an-
gels"
1t is probable that you are peculiarly
fitted to make happy wives. You have
just ideas of the marriage relation. Be-
cause the right one has not found you,
you are unmarried. If you had had as
low an estimate of the relation as many
of your married sisters had, you, like
them, would have thrown yourselves
away upon some miserable scamps and
been among the lost where there is
wailing and crashing of teeth.'
BE true to your high and holy Ideal
The world has need of your sweet chart
ties. Opportunities of divinest influence
abound on every hand. Let CHEEKY
radiance hallow and brighten your pres
ence, and whether your earthly smile
ripen into the Heavenly while you are
still young, or after you have passed into
to the "sere and yellow leaf" you will
be loved and finally mourned as an
angel sister of whom "the world was
not worthy
! BENEDICT.
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