Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-10-20
FOES OF MA TRIMONY.
DIR. TALMAGE MAKES AN ON
SLAUGHT.
FIRING ANOTHER SHOT AT PoLYdAMY-
THE SAD CONDITION OF HIM WHO HAS
MORE THAN ONE WIFE.

iisu ilNuNSb OhlSluAibE1 Nan NuO ull
nouncement with which DR.. Tamag,
closed his exordium at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle Sunday morning on tht
marriage of Adam and Eve. He con
tinued "Away with the gross notior
that marriage is merely civil con
tract, it is a paradisiaoal six-thousand
year. old divine institution All The
laws slnco Blackstone or before Black
stone can't properly marry two heartl
unless the Lord Almighty has frs
married them. What are the foes, The
bitter enemies, of the marriage rcla
tion2 The first foe discern is polyg
amy. There are now in this country
more people than ever who believe in
polygamy. Some believe in it under
another name; some practice it under
no name. When it is asserted that
the Bible sanctions polygamy or plu.
rahty OF wives there is not one Chris.
tian in five hundred thousand who can.
not reiute the slander. The Bible rec.
ognizes polygamy Just as it recognizes
all other styles Of sin, but in no case
sanctions it. Wherever in the Bible
you find man who has more than
one wife you find him up to his neck
IN trouble. Laughter.] David and
Solomon were previously punished for
their sins. David mourns 'out OF the
belly of hell Solomon says: There
is no good thing under the sun. Van
ity Of vanities all is vanity. Good
for him If he had 999 wives less he
would have taken q more cheerful
view of things [Great laughter.1 God
said, Il will make helpmeet ior man.
He did not say helpmeets. II God had
intended plurality OF wives, instead
of taking one rib from Adams side lie
would have taken more, until Adam
would not have had a rib left, [Great
laughterl Then, how was it at the
Deluge? How many of each kind
were there Each man had one wife.
lfpolygamy had been right they would
have had twenty wives each, and thus
have saved multitude from drown.
ing The history Of the world shows
that men and women have almost al.
ways been equal in number Where
there has been any exception the wo.
men have been m the majority. The
Bible is not more thoroughly against
theft, blasphemy, and murder than it
is against polygamy. Where polyga-
my exists there may be q large house,
a splendid house, but no home. Sup.
pose twenty women tried to occupy
the throne of Victoria, how much
prosperity would there be in England
Just as much as in any home where
more than one wife tries to be queen.
God intended woman TO be mans
equal. But in polygamy that is i'm.
possible, because it presumes that il
takes ten, twenty or thirty women to
equal one man. All that poetry about
man being the oak and woman the
vine is fiat, and stale and untrue.
"In tens of thousands of cases, men
who have met commercial disaster,
who have gone homo discouraged,
ready to give up the struggle, wishing
they were dead, have found sympathy
and encouragement in wives who have
oheered and led them up to CONNER.
cial prosperity. Who now is the oak,
and who the ivy? | like the ring OF
that New York merchant who, after
declining a subscription to project he
disapproved said to the applicant
You may call upon my wife; perhaps
she may take a different view of the
subject Such beautiful thing as
that could not have occurred IN polyg.
amy.
again, all those entertainments
which take men majority Of even.
ings from home are enemies of do
nestle relation. Imake no indiscrimi.
nate assault on Clubs. Indeed, if ]
should seek out the best Club could
find and join it. But when a man
likes any place better than his home,
look out for breakers. Laughter. |
You can tell whether a man likes his
homo by noting whether he stays
there. But the average Club house is
the foe to domestic life in New York
and Brooklyn.
"Who fiji the Club house 7 | Ianswer,
in many cases, women woman is sur.
prised that she has not so much atten.
tion paid her now as before marriage.
1t would be very different if she would
take as much pains to make herself
attractive as she did before marriage.
That ia where women make n mistake,
when, because they are married, they
give up all those little arts which,
though indescribable, go to make up
womanly attractiveness. Too many
women make their charms net for
making one haul. After they have
made one haul they throw the net
away. Before marriage you played
like Thalberg or Gottscball; now you
cannot play at all. How do you spend
your evenings2 Is it complaining
about the servants? Do you put your
you are the Professor You ought to
make home small heaven for your
husbands perturbed spirit. Unwisc,
fretful, jealous women have filled one.
half the Club houses OF America.
"Let the women of the country read
newspapers and books, if only ten
minutes q day. Lot them study the
questions OF the hour, and be able TO
bold q good stout political argument
as to the merits of Hancock and Gar.
field. Laughter and applause.1 Then
home will be Club house to which
many more will flock. One intelligent
woman has more attractiveness than
twenty intelligent men.
"Another foe Of the domestic rela.
tions is Free Love. All advocates of
il without exception, get to be lbor.
tines. They first break up their own
homes and then they break up other
homes. Free Lovers are frequently
Spiritualists. They get the people Of
this world so mixed up with those Of
the other world that they do not
know who belongs to them. Free.
lovesm and Spiritualism are twin els.
ters. But they are 40 bankrupt in
morals that they don't pay one per
cent. Of righteousness.
"Another great evil Of domestic life
is easy divorce. How many, enter
the marriage relation recllessly ? In
France the laws were made easy for
divorce, and there were 10000 di.
vorces in year in Paris, There were
$4,000 children carried into the found.
ling hospital and kindred institutions
$4,000 foundlings in year When
law let's down the bars, all the cattle
of beastliness break into the garden of
home. While Rome was moral there
waa only one ease of divorce renorted