New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-23
" HOME. SWEET HoME"-A LECTURE BY THEo-


"HOME, SWEET HOME"-A LECTURE BY THEo-
DORE TTLToN.
If MIR. Tilton's lecture last evening at Amity
Chapel In one-hundreda twenty eighth-st, did not
convert the respectable people OF Harlem 70 MS own
peculiar views regarding the fra tenure OF the marriage
tie 1t at least startled the and Furnished abundant
food for and discussion Mr. Iton uttered
his theories with rather profuse apologies to
an audience which had not advanced 30 rapidly a. be
had In the doubtfully lighted path Of social pro
gress, and he illustrated them at times with en-
barrassing plaInness and disregard OF the sacred
desk. which he 60 violently belabored. Tho
speaker promised BY saying that no had
been sgnatizedi In hundred newspapers and DIS name
had been kicked about like football, but he compa-
Gently assured his hearers that football which received
the rebu Of a feet generally bounded clear over
their heads He did not by any means deduoe ron tnn
that hrs own reputation was preparing Onx az
sired hoist his cause out CT the re INTO WHOM SoeSo
MT TfItoa defined bis ideal of homo as homo not
made with hands but built in the heart iS corner s
stone without which may DC oge. mouse Ss rSe 70 n
and an iron key that shuts It, The name OF the one
marriage and the name OF the 9tner dSoree
he wrong but he going 10 see what the Cnntcn
and the State said about T. He went on W snow Ina
which an acute social taste and career OF extended oo
servation warranted him in defining az true MARRIAGE
The one called It sacrament and the other, dspuung
called 1t civil contract 1t certainly was not Sacra
mont because the derivation Of the term meant mil
tary oath and It's application, foreshadowed battle
and strife AS TO bcing civil contract such contract
is one that can be dissolved by mutual consent Whe In
marriage the parties are irreVocably bound.
How could a man before the altar to love and
honor a woman when he did not know that sac would
continue to be lovabe and honorablei Natures ioeai
marriage was the monogsmio union Of one man aud one
woman through love- Without love II was not marriage,
and when love ceased to exist then no moro marriage
a6ides between them. He enumerated the many and
yariOus grounds there for divorce In tho dtneren
states and asked how was 1t known which waS rFnt
Mr. nton's own method Of avoiding these olmonIueS
cannot better be- explained than In his ewn words:
do not mean that there should be no regulation or spn
iation mean no prohibition, no tyranny; want the
emblem Of the law to be liberty not its symDole chain
would have marriage be OWL contract put IN writ
Ing aligned by the parties and By Witnesses with terms
reIidous terms Decuniary. terms Industrial, Whatever
else may be shought desirable It should be dissolved
ike any other VII cont-aotby mutual eoneent II only
one desires tLsn the Coura a. In other con.
tracts ha 70 boom beaten with club for weeks past
because have thrown out these suggestions upon the
public mnG. John Milton says; Liyorce Is not 70 DO
treated By law but by conscience A law forbiddinA
divorce attans 10 good end but rather muttphes evil
In conclusion Mr. Hilton quoted from the writings 0!
John stuart MILL and instanoed the life OF Mr. Mill and
his wife as illustration Of true marriage, where her
oath did not make them keep their marriage but Where
their marriage made them keep their OATH