Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04
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THE FOES OF MATRIMONY.

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THE FOES OF MATRIMONY.
TAIMAGE MAKES AN ONSLAUGHT ON THE EN-
EMIEs OF MARRIAGE.
married the second Tuesday morning in
Nav, of the year l, Adam, the first man, and
Eve, the first woman, High Heaven oficia-
ting" was the announcement with which DR..
Talmage closed his exordium at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle yesterday morning on the mar
riage of Adam and Eve. He continued {:
Away with the gross notion that marriage is
merely civil contract; it is a paradisiacal
six thousand years old divine institution. All
the laws since Blackstone or before Black.
stone can't properly marry two hearts unless
the Lord Almighty has first married them.
What are the foes, the bitter enemies, of the
marriage relation? The first foe I discern is
polygamy. There are now in this country
more people than ever who believe in polyga-
nv. Some believe in it under the name !;
some practice it under no name. When it is
asserted that the Biblesanctions polygamy or
plurality of wives, there is not one Christian
in FIVE hundred. thopsapd who cannot refute
the slander. The Bible recognizes polygamy
Just as it recognizes all other styles of sin, but
in no case sanctions it, Wherever in the
Bible you find man with more than one
wife you find him up to his neck in trouble.
GLaug ghter] David and Solomon were griev-
ously 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 from
him If he had 500 wives less he would have
taken more cheerful view of things Great
laughter.] God said, i will make a helpmeet
for man. He did not say helpmeets. If God
had intended q plurality of wives, instead of
taking one rib from Adams side He would
not have rib left. [Great laughter Then,
how was it at the Deluge? How many of
each kind were there? Each man had one
wife. If polygamy. had been right, they
would have had twenty wives, and thus saved
multitude from drowning. The history of
the world shows that men and women have
almost always been equal in number. Where
there has been any exception the women have
been in the majority. The Bible is not more
thoroughly against theft, blasphemy and MUIR
der than it is against polygamy. Where po-
lygamy exists there may be large house,
splendid house, but no home. Suppose twen-
ty women tried to occupy the throne Of Vic
toria, 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 impossible, because it
presumes that it 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
home discouraged ready to give up the strug-
gle, wishing they were dead, have found SYM
pathy and encouragement in wives who have
cheered and led them up to commercial pros.
perity. Who now the oak and who the ivy?
I like the ring of that New York merchant
who, after declining subscription to project
he dsapproved, said to the applicant: You
may call; upon my wife; perhaps she may
take different view of the subject Such a
beautiful thing as that could not have occur
red in polygamy.
again, all these entertainments which
take men majority Of evenings from home
are enemies of the domestic relation. 1make
no indiscriminate assault on clubs. Indeed,
if had no home, should seek out the best
club I 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 man likes his home by no.
ting whether he stays there. But the average
clubhouse is the foe to domestic life in New
York and Brooklyn.
"Who people the club-houses2 1 answer,
in many cases, women. A woman is surprised
that she has not so much attention paid to her
now as before marriage. Perhaps it would be
different if she would take as much pains to
make herself as attractive as before marriage.
That is where women make a mistake, when,
because they are married. they give up all
thoseilittle arts which, though indescribable,
20 to make up womanly attractiveness Too
many women make their charms net tor
making one haul. After they have made one
haul they throw the net away. Before mar
riage you played like Thalberg or Gottschalk !;
now you cannot play at all. Laughter.
How do you spend your evepings3 Do you
put your husband in an infant class Of which
you are the professor? You ought to make
home small heaven for your husb bands per-
turbed spirit. Unwise, fretful, jealous women
have filled one.half of the club. b.houses of
America.
"Let the women of this country read news.
papers and books, if only ten minutes day.
Let them study the questions of the hour,
and be able to hold good stout. political ar
gument as to the merits of Hancock and Gar
field. Laughter and applause. Then home
will be the clubh house to which many more
will flock One intelligent woman has more
attractiveness than twenty intelligent men.
UNWORTHY OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.
Mark Twain says eve left the train for
Switzerland, and reached Lucerne about ten
o'clock at night. The first discovery made
was that the beauty of the Lake had not been
exaggerated. Within day or two | made
another discovery: This was that the lauded
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