Smyrna times., 1871-02-01
Happy Marriages.

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Marriages are happy where they take place
from pure love, betweca two persons who are
already thoroughly acquainted with each other,
and who are thoroughly content with each
other as they then are.
First, love must be the motive Marriages
of convenience, as they are called, almost
always turn out to be anything but convenient
and, on.the contrary, exceedingly inconvenicnt
Ii people marry for mOney,-even if the
money be Obtained, the husband or wife who
is taken with it, is Of course and necessarily.
regarded merely as an incumbrance, to be en-
dured Tor the sake of the more highly prized
pecuniary acquisition. Then, if it chance that
the coveted money be not received or that il
be subsequently lost, the situation is still more
deplorable, for the incumbrance alone remains
without the compensation calculated upon for
It's Indurance, and becomes all the more unen-
durable.
If people marry for what is called position,
they marry for something that cannot be OBJ |
tanned in that way. A sound title to position .
can only be got by merit, never by matrimony |
Secondly, happy marriages can only take /
place between people who are well acquainted /
and who are satisfied with each other as they /.
are.
Young persons who are so blinded by love
that their Judgment is rendered torpid, who
are unable to perceive each others faults, and
who marry, in real fJrm, an imaginary chardc-
ter, are soon and sadly undeceived by the ex-
perience Of married life; and such matches
are most miserable.
SO OF those who marry, not because they
are satisfied with each other as they now are
but who are quite confident of their ability to
change the character Of the person they we'd
Such hopes prove delusive. Do not be deceived
by the idea that you can re-mould a character
already cast, In consequence of assuming the
matrimonial relation The probability is, that
the Objectionable, or disagreeable qualities
which YOU already perceive will increase, and
not dlmlnlsh, after marriage; while the posi-
blllty OF discovering new ones always exists.
The suggestions may be needed with advan-
tage by the endless procession continually
moving toward the gates Of matrimony.-
| Western paper.
LECTURE OF a PRIEST IN WUMINGTON on
" LUTHER AND THE KEFoRMATIoN. Father
|. T. llecker, of New York, editor of the
C0thoiic World. and superior Of the order of
PauliSts, lecturcd at institute Hall, Whining
ton last week under the auspices Of the Catho-
lie Literary Association. The following is a
synopsis of his remarks: He proposed in
opening, to inquire the cause of the separation
OF so many millions of Christians from the true
Church, in the 10th century. There were
good reasons for dissatisfaction with the
AnuiCH; At tIdJ IlIIc, anu Il EcluTudllOn was
certainly needed. The Church had then, as
now, two sides, one divine the other humane,
and as in the days Of our Saviour, 50 in all
times, errors must attain to the human side.
The Priests, Prelates and Popcs, were men,
, not celestial beings dropped from heaven into
their placeS-hence their imperfection.
The speaker, while admitting the sins Of the
church, in the 10th century, paid high COM
plimcnt to Luther, and stated that from his
, piety and worth, as well as from his rare ac-
complshments as a public speaker, and scIOl
, ar, he was just the man to render the church
) eminent service by laborng within its pale for
its needed reformation; but in an evil hour,
forgetting the divine promise . Lo, am with
you alway, he left the church, and usurping
divine authority, pretended to create another
church. This was Luher's sin. If Luther
! had a right to make church, so had Henry
, VIII, SO had Calvin and Knox, so hand George
, Fox, so had Anna Lee, (the founder of the
Shakers so had John Snooks. The errors of
! the church, however, were thoroughly eradi-
, cated by the council of Trent and in proof of
this we had the testimony of reliable writer's
both Catholic and Protestant. The speaker
) referred at some length to the granting Of in
G dulgences, that being the act at which Luther
e especially directed attack, and concluded with
! an appeal to his hearers to engage heartily in
e laborS for the advancement of the church.