The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-09-24

who wants her carriage and horse
etc. Her wants make a constal
strain on her husbands slend.
finances. He loves her and wan
/. to crafty her wishes, is tempted
= Overdraw, or embezzle or steal; afte
!. while it comes to light; you a
; know the end; how often thes
4 things in their last analysis ar
: chargeable upon the wife, we wi
not say.
What can pious girl expec
a when she marries a wicked youn,
8 man7 Will he likely be up earl
, on Sunday to eat his breakfast AM
! let his wife get off to Sunday school
Will he want to accompany her tt
prayer meeting, or rather excus,
: himself for his club?
Often the Christian activity of {
young woman is neutralized by hel
young husband. / will not say that
parents should select partners fol
their children, but it were we'll for
children to listen to their parents
advice in this responsible undertak-
ing. eo...., f.-..- @ t...f
A mother at 40 has forty times
as much sense on the subject of a
suitable husband for her daughter
as has that daughter at 18 or 20.
| Young man, your mothers opin-
ion of "your girl" is worth its weight
in diamonds to you. Listen when
Ishe speaks. 'it-tt
But / am told glove is the feun-
dation stone in happy marriages,
love should decide this question.
Love is an affair of the heart and
Cupid is blind. Do you propose to
make marriage matter of conve-
nience--of cold, calculating fathers
and mothers?" Yes, love is the
source Of marriage bliss. Love is
an affection of the heart, people fall
in love with each other. Yes, l
admit all these things, but love is
like rose, it may be cultivated and
made to grow, and moreover, you
select your rose and then plant it
and cultivate it.
Why love an Absalom when it is
as easy to love Jonathan? Why
love a Delilah when Mary or a
Rachel or a Hannah may be wooed?
Better live and die in maidenhood
a hundred times over than to marry
a beer-guzzler, gamester, young
man who spends his Sunday after
moons at witnessing or playing base
ball, or dashing all over the country
with fast horse and buggy. Such
persons are not proper partners for
you, my daughters.
1t is the religious duty of parents
to marry their children Gin the Lord"
we'd them to Christians. Carlyle
and his wife are anillustration ofan
Unmatched pair. Both had charac-
ter, but their tastes and training
had been so dissimilar that all
through their lives they preserved
their polarity, and it was diamond
cutting and scratching aud grating
on diamond unto the end.
Much of Absalom' 8 sins are charg-
able to David. The father sinned
and the father and son both suffer
for it. 1o Ta= q. 5gs' 90 @ o
2. Absalom's early training was
neglected-This inference from the
story is natural and reasonable.
David was busy with the affairs of
State he didn't have time to give
to the training of his children =.
they were left to the mothers. He
had a plurality of wives; each had
children and kept an establishment.
David's pieus influence was wants
ing to guide the boys. The father
neglected his own family for the in
terests of the public. How many
Christian fathers are doing just like
David? Too much occupied with |
office, or store, or farm, sr shop, to |
look after the bright boys-left tod
themselves they go to ruin. You |
sing Where is my wandering |
boy to night ?"
Yes, where is he? Is hs here. at
your side? Or is he at home with
his mother, who couldn't come to
church? Where is he? Out on the
curbstone with "roughs'' putting
AID exchanging stale vul-
garity? Is he out with company
that you cannot approvea
I asked a Christian mother re-
Gently. "Where is your boy of Sun
day nights-does he go to church,"
She replied 81 don't know where
be goes he leaves home saying he
is going to church. / can't go out
at night don't know" / knew
be didn't go to church.
Alas, for boys whose fathers are
toe busy to look after them. And
mothers, "society; women" who are
too much taken up with fashion and
gayety to perform for their babies
The duties appointed by nature.
Foster mothers and servants have
5hese immortal gems left for them
20 mould and polish. What may |,
hey expect? l always rejoice to
greet mothers in the Sunday-school /,
md prayer meeting, if they can
,ons. but if they cannot leave their
children in safe hands, then let
hem watch over the children. To \,
Fitus Paul wrste: snTeach the
young women to love their children !;
70 be discreet, chaste, keepers at |,
home" The mother with growing
finds home her field Of &
operations, and TO her children she
must give herself, even if the Dorcas
society must get another President ,
md the pastor must hunt up some
me else to Distribute tracts. A f,
mothers first duty is to the immor-
ais that God has given her. a.e
But father say asWe have not (
lime for these things" Stop and
hink is anything in this world sol
,riceless as your boys soul? Think I
# his possibilities for his good or i'll. ]
ae may make Wesley, a Pea
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