The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-22
CHE Aymietta Sunrual,
Marietta, Georgia, September 20, 1871
COMFORT FOR THE DOUBLE /;
OR,
SINGLE LIFE versus MARRIAGE.

Happiness is the end and and ain
of life. 1t is natural feeling per
vading each mortal breast. All man
kind are engaged in the pursui: of it
and by divers means and ways are
they endeavoring TO seek and to fine
it. There are different fields il
which happiness may be attained
but all points to domestic as the goa
of all earthly happiness; and this
state of felicity is the married state.
To establish and maintain that the
marriage life is happier than the
single, it is only necessary to open
the pages of sacred history, and
therein we shall find that marriage
is an ordinance Of God, deoreed for
the comfort, the benefit, and the
happiness of the human race,
''It is not good that man shall live
Alone" are the words of Divinity,
and they find an echo in the breast of
every man that is not blinded by ig-
norance and prejudice. 1t is not
good that man should live alone in
this vast world without some gentler,
some lovelier, purer being to soften
the asperities of life; to participate
in his joys, and to sympathize in his
sorrows. How beautiful does Camp.
bell express this in his pleasures
of Hope:
''The world was sad, the garden was wild,
And man the hermit sighed, till woman smiled"
That the marriage state is happier
than the single, is attested by the
almost universally of matrimony.--
Mankind would not be so universally
led into this state as they are, if they
did not think and know that grea-
ter degree of happiness was to be
found there in than in a single state.
Why is it that the young man so
willingly gives up his gay associates,
his youthful pleasures and disaipating
enioyments, and with joyous feelings
and buoyant hopes enters the mar
riage state? Simply and solely be-
cause he is convinced that greater
degree of happiness is to be attained
therein than an imaginary "single
bliss" 1t is not so much the desire
of gaining wealth or ascending the
ladder Of fame that animates the
breast of youth, as it is the desire of
winning some fair one upon whom
his hearts affections centre, and thus
crown his future happiness in life
This hope is present and with him
amid the turmoils and struggles for
success, and is mingled in all his
plans and designs.
In order to substantiate clearly that
the marriage state is far happier than
the single, let US contrast the two
Domestic happiness is the only bliss
of Paradise that has survived the
fall. Anxieties and cares pervade
the human breast. 1t is the nature
ofman since sin en- tered the world
but we contend that in the marriage
state there is a solace incompatible
with a single one.
The married man, after the tolls
and cares of the day, returns to a
cheerful home, and is gladdened by
all the comforts and delights Of do
nestle life. He is met by joysome
children, who, with gleeful voices,
welcome home their sire-chasing
away all harassing thoughts, and is
soothed by an affectionate wife,
Amidst the felicity of such a scene
all the trials of life are sweetened
and made smooth and he goes fOrtl
again to the battle with an energy
and will to perform the great duty
of life.
How different with the ferlorl
single man. He, after day of bus
ness perplexities and anxieties, re
turns to an abode of gloom and cheer
lessness no welcome greetings, NJ
tread of fairy-like feet are hearC
pattering in his deserted and silen
rooms; no sounds of musical voices
He eats his dinner or sips his tea il
silence, and sits by fire-side tina
has never been gladdened by the Joy
of domestic life, ponderiug over tht
gains and losses of the day, until hi
brain becomes racked, with none tt
comfort him, and under the inAuenc,
of disappointment his energies be
come paralyzed.
IA bachelor friend, after readinl
the above, became convinced tina
celibacy is an error of judgement
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