The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-04-19
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Their Relation Defined by Rev.
Robert Coilyer.

New York Herald.
Every seat in the Churca of the
Messiah Was occupied last night and
many people went away unabie TO
obtain places. Marriage was the sub
ject of the evening discourse, and in
introducing il the Rev. Robert
CoIlyer took for his tex: Hebrews
Kill. 4-"Marfiage is honorable.
The lecture was ANNOUNCED rs being
intended for young men and young
women, and that night have been
one of the reasons why So many came
to hear the preacher speak on SD in.
teresting a subject. After announcing
the text, Mr.. Coiiyer said The most
sacred relation of human life is tina;
of wife and husband. Wife and
husband stand for more than father
and mother or parents and children,
because their blended life is the toun-
tain from which all three relations
spring; aud changing the mere man
and woman into these sacred names
makes that glory which is otherwise
a shame. According &c tire Bible il
is relation as old as cur human
history, counting tina. history, as yoa
know the Bible does count it. from
the time when man ceased to he a
mere wild ~anderer and began Ia
plant things and dress himself. aud
came to tine knowledge of good AMI
evil and began 10 be aware Of the
presence of God in his life. And
nothing outside of the Bible con-
tradicts this testimony. Other ancisn:
books cast the matter into ether forms.
as they themselves ara the product Of
other races. But the whole story
amounts to this, when it il toi!-that
in the beginning the divine power
made the man and woman aud set
them on the throne of the world, sni
gave them the grace 10 become nus
band and wife, ard TO fead IA each
other the counterpart and completion
of their own being and the true conii-
tion through which ws people the
world forever with new lie. SO. while
the creation, over which man was
given dominion, followed its special
instinct, sought its lair or made lis
nest, brought forth their ycu"g, and
before another sprirs kasw them
no moro for their own than if they
We're on another continent. Ths
husband and wife made themselyes,
reared a family and were faithful 10
them, not for few months, bu. fer
a lifetime; sent them out to 40 as
they had done. but still counted
them As their children, born OF their
body and intimately one of the old
homestead. And SO il is that this
human race has never evenced itself
touching IFS ofsp,;n., with the beasts
that perish. In the grossest savagsry
as a rule is as rude and bru-
tai as possible. As We rise in :he sca:e
Of life il takes a noo!e ani better f,fm,
and on the summit OF iise il is
the trueSi sacrament |
know of, and the sure.t. il we take
il unworthily. TO living di;nna;ion.
THE ESTIMATE OF MARRIAGE.
A true marriage is always re-
isious act itself, because religion
means the binding of one 10 the
,ther in pure and true union. 81
he Scriptures never command this
relation 20 far rs | cen remember.
hey only recognize and guard and
bless it. The man and woman in 4
rue wedding become husband and
wife because their Creator made them
or each other. Just as he made Adam
or Eve ond Eve for Adam in the 1
.arden. say the true match is the /
uls, ard liz the vas; majority of
instances those who come to be husband
md wife were made to be husband
md wife. Yes. and very often in the |
ace Of our sins and folies, and not at
III in our Discerning, the great
acred gift is given which makes a
Heaven for us when We would make
for ourselves. To believe.
IS some do, that disappointment and
Misery come of most marriages is
'ery much like believing that in this
world the devil has dominion over
most souls. Thomas and Mary sit in
heir home and wonder now John and
'usan manage to get along on So small
stock of esteem. and Thomas and
larry shake their heads over John
nd Susan. But you fiad that some
ow there is better with the worsa. as
here is worse with better. Very
ander and true they are apt to be
hen sickness takes the children very ,
IRE. They weep together over the ,
title graves. We see only the sur ,
ice, we note only tine dissousnce. Ii ,
like the chimes Of Trinity which ,
III so sweetly about the life below.
lat those to whom they are but the 3
of life do not heed ,
lem and are but dimly aware they ,
re pu;sing through the busy msrts.
mt LET them strike harsh discard :
I'D thousand faces viii be turned :
Trinity srire in wonder. They :
ear that, and that is truth about our :
fe. Still go on to say that what |
,u are saying to yourselves just now $
quite true; there is great deal of !
ouble in this land of ours, rising d. 4
city out of this relation of husband
I'd wife, and trouble that cannot be
ought within the lines that | have
led to draw, but breaks out aud C
'mes up in quite an internal way v
fore the world, so that we have to O
< sometimes what We are coming 10 a
I'd whether there lie not a threat In g
G air o: disruption of this sacred a
cial ordsr-liberty running to d
,ense, love driven from her throne y
; lust. and this new world of ours v
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