New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21
THE LETTER TO THE ORTHODOX WIFE"


Let me stop at an intermediate procession
spoke of the letter written him in 1868 written in
his declining ,ays-et stop at intermediate stage
on Valentines Day, 1867, when this man wrote TO his
wfe-a wife who loved him and loved her Savior wife
who loved him and loved all wife who loved him
and loved those innocent chldrenin strain OF mockery
that we could readily imagine laughing the sneering
lip of VOltaiIe:
MY DEAR ORTHODOX WIFE have been specializing
considerably Lately ON the chaiyler ana eaIos, "a 1gs
ana wonder whether You Will DE shochei When nGh-
ton one of Inr meditatOns. II il this How would lie
have appeared IN the character OF -
He don't write IL /" Theodore Tlton :" he writes IL
a married manl Certainly TO your reverential and
adorig view of Him God manifested IN the flesh;
He consented 10 ne born of woman. why might He not
have consented 10 be married To woman And II lie
been the Father Of mortal chilii He loved some Of His
disciples better than others as, for instance gohh ne
undoubtedly loved some rev women, perhaps PAS
sionately.
Mr. Tlton-Read it correctly, Mr.. Porter.
Mr.. Porter-Do | nOti
Mr.. Tilton-NO Sir.
Mr. POrter-HOw is It'll
Mr. Tlton-You omitted devOtedly."
Mr. Porter-I beg your pardon. ITO the juryJ Mr..
Tlton properly suggests that omitted u word III my
haste, OF course not designedy:
He undoubtedly loved some few women dev0iedly,
perhaps W amSpg those S women
whom He might have poured the whole funess OF Ills
bear RI
ring making her indeed like the Church the !rlde OF
Christi" confess that II new historic investigation
instead of an minated Of all the world would see
an additional glory in the most wonderful OF All hsorc
characters. -
The God TO whom Won and l. in last hours will ad-
dress our last PRAYER from parched lips, and when the
death sweat is on brow that Is the God OF whom
Theodore TIlton 10 the wife who adores Him. uses Ian
cnt re like this. a. hstoTiciGod!"
Nor do know Of any evidence to show that He was
If either Mary or Martha or any other sanity woman,
had beer His wife, the fact would prooaDy nave oeen
rnei tioned and vet what would have known OF Ills
friend Peters wife except for the fact that her mother
was once sick Of fever Mems wives are not necessa-
rily known 10 history.
let me tell him. his viii be and he has created the
cessity.
OF course the probability is that Jesus was never mar
ried yet this Is by no means certainty Ana a. mere
on 10, e If Peter tone of His disciples might there
have enioved the still sweeter cOpanlOnhhp VI a
wife of his own
II he did does believe that it was wife who would
lie for Him. who would the witness Of His innocence II
He had committed the Nathan murder he told Mrs Ov
ngton this woman wOuldi 81 know"-not what the God
who fashioned and who provided him 80 richly with ply 81
cal and gfts-no what that God says for that
Is OF no account him" know tat even Renan'-thc
fndel even Keenan, that authority who rises above the
crown Of the OmniscienV and who wrote book more
worthy 10 be cited than that which he LAID bis Aad
when he sw0re tlat ne WOuiu uo' nahe i"i'o
AGAINST the wife OF his bosom and Henry Ward Beecher!
Itnovv thar even Renan SAYS Jesus never married -
Even admitting the fact however this does not deny the
nro.rietv OF His marrying II he had chosen ~ marry
Rpt n Jesls had taken wife and fathered family
heIeye that this fact would have completely human
1ed Him I'm the ewes all the world that He never would
have been regarded God, the only begoten son Oh
God.
And that accounts for it. gentlemen OF the Jury why
this man. who talks about his /" crown, ana ns mylne
of the crown" and saying to Bowen God save the
KING has never been recognized the rival OF your
Savior and mine. He proceeds:
He never would have been regarded as Cod or the
ONLY begotten Son Of God. And yet, H. ~ the son Oh
MARY He mad the husband Of Ganiean gir anu
these ain had dwet III cottage by the Lake OF Genes
saret and them had been born children IKE ose VI
whom He said suffer them To come unto Me- let me
inquire whether not you would love the character Oh
Jesus any less than you love 1t now Answer iouI
heterOdox husband, THEODORE iiLioN'
These were the teachings in Christian household 10
the mother OF the children Of whom he told Bessie Iur
ner that but one was legitimate.