Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

Important Leap Year Advfce-Rev. M H
 AOuShtOn Tells About Mmr. Iags am.
 Homes and Pays His Respects DivOrc
 Eeformers.
 Considering the fact that this is leap yea
 there was B surprisingly small number.e .e
 young ladies present at the Church ,6uyh
 Messiah last evening where Rev. Sn .srhe
 ton had been advertised to preshalI marry
 future of our homes-Ht however. and
 "no" i'" Ventss'men were there get
 iAfge numoer or &arriage question. The
 'ins p0in'S oh 1 Substance: While the sub-
 eer S11Rnounced is somewhat novel
 Fall endeavor to treat it in such
 as to make it profitable. In Proverbs ,ou will find the text, "Forsake ye not my law" Tht re are those who maintain that in no distant period Christian institutions will cease to exist. being crowded out by science. However it may be. it is certain that there are facts, principles, laws of nature which we can never overcome or set at naught with impunity. What shall have to say shall svripg largely out of what understand to be Christian principles. I shall take up this theme in reference to the home and to marriage. There is a false doc rine abroad that it matters not much how we come into this world so long as beaven's doors are open to when we pass from this world. If this is true 1t doesn't make any difference whether s man is born fool or philosopher. We have lived too long in the old way believing that it doesn't make any difference whom we marry or how we live so that the Holy Spirit rules within us. Is it not the fact, if people | are ill-suited to each other, all the pray Jers of all the white iplied angels In heaven cannot | sweep away the barriers? There Is not one in | the house who had any thing to say whether | they should be born with blue eyes or none, | esith one hand or two, with high concep- ion of the moral law such 0 low one as to be a criminal. We find our selves here often handicapped h the the beginning It's hard enough to battle against the world if born under the most fav .rable circumstances It was preached for 1 400 years t1at the meaner man was and he more he suffered here the greater he uuld b.. in heaven I ant to speak then. just of our homes. Our homes should be the I,lsasanrt SC spot on earth. Our chief supply If happiness should come from them A lusn thinks every hing of his girl, tells her housand sweet things that proved to be lies six months after marriage. He goes abroad venings and the last place he thinks of get lag enjoy meDt from IS his home- ths hOme $ necessarily place of luxury Ho" .0all Ve make our homes happy In the frs t,la @ man should get the right kind of Il vie. We must know what We are by nature by temperament, by disposition Too frequently we think enly If present enjoyment MarriagS is more important than baptism, joining a church or choosing profession l bel1eve nat there are men and women made for each other and they should be selected by taste | and the laws of our human and divine nature Id then we shall have homes that God will | mile upon If you find vital difference UetwGeu yourself and wife get out of ths scrApe soon as Sou can don't believe IL the doctrine that two people should live to 4,e her if they are unsuited for each other. ion'I believe iu all this namby-pamby non- seuse that the divorce reformeIs tell you and 1 would say the same if I stood befor' the whi,e throne of God At d when you ar. married keep on courting the girl and don' .rt love ois out Coidness creeps in, unhap piness gets in and separation tollowt from carolessness There is nothing sweetsI 1 home than sweet healthy child. Ho" ,ad to see one of those gifts of heavel -ro~iLg up with the seeds of disease in | planted in it's bosom. Misery and crime are 1 astened upon many by the errors of the pa | rents. Too many born criminals. Ma. he time come when all homes shall be suz formed that no such children shall be born The future of the nation depends ol IL. Let us try to so live that we may do all l ae can to help along such 8 state Of things AS loL g aS we are pure and honest no outside tufueuce can really hurt us Let us have the l truth of God that shall bind our homes to- 1 gether and make them the harbingers of gooo ] for this nation.