The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-01-22

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made for each other, and are
very often brought together by
a Providence they cannot ac-
count for, and they can never
be separated in their souls any
more. A young man goes into
q room Of an evening with a
heart as free as an minated
swallow, and comes out of il
sixty minutes after, a captive
for life, and the maiden knows
what the youth knows, and hel
heart says amen to the revela.
tion, though it may take hel
some time to say it with hel
lips.
81 have a friend," says a
credible writer, "a man Of great
intelligence, who told that he
was in the middle of the Pacific
on a voyage, he saw a face in
a dream, and it was the face of
his future wife. He went thro'
many adventures after that,
was away about seven years,
came back, went home, went
to a quarterly Quaker meeting
in Totterham, and there saw in
a Quaker bonnet, for the first
time with his human eyes, the
face he had seen in. his dream.
The maiden became his wife,
and | never saw a happier pair
on the earth, or a sweeter home
or children, and | have no
doubt of the perfect truth of
the story"
All true marriages are made
in heaven.
Any true observation Of the
life we are living will bring the
assurance that marriage of this
sort are by no means so few as
cynics and satirists would like
us to infer. n
''If," says a most respectable
clergyman, "from thirty to forty
years of intimate observation,
in two widely separate sections
of society-two worlds, and the
intimacy of a minister beside
can be of service in forming an
opinion, it is mine that a great
preponderance of the men and
women who become husbands |
and wives, find their matches
the one human being they need
to make up the full measure,
so far of their life, in the man
or woman they marry. 1t is
possible they may not find what
L may call their ideal man or
wOman-the wonderful persons
the rOmances can make so
much better than the Lord of
Life makes us, as the pictures
of a fashion plate are finer than
the portraits of the masters.
When we form our taste on
this sort of standard, we are
likely to be disappointed, and
ought to be-"
The possibility of husband
and wife falling out is in some
way to be expected-in what
we cannot we'll foresee, and it
is not best we should. 1t may
be health, or temper, or habit
It is no matter, there must be a
rial of our faith in each other,
rs there is of our faith in re-
ligion. No man or woman has
any business to enter this init
mate oneness of life and soul
without such an expectation.
When the lark scars and sings
over a mountain tarn, his sha-I
low is as deep in the water as
lis soaring is as high in heaven.
Wise old Bishop Taylor says:
Marriage has in it less Of
beauty than single life, but
more of safety. 1t is more
merry, but alas! more sad. 1t
s fuller of joy, but also Of sOr-
'ow. 1t lies under more bur-
lens, but is supported by the
strength of love, so that these
,urdens become delightful.
Something like that is to be
in the very nature of
hings. 1t is to be found as !
he shadow cast by the truest :
nd purest light that ever
hines in a home. The sweetest T,
life that ever lived has said
lings to her husband scores Of :
mes that she would allow no :
Iher human being to say about 7.
i'm. or. once for all. that third d