Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-01-28

right have YOU. o masculine BEAST whose life
has been loose, otnke under your care tkespot-
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PRAYER AND MARRIAGE
But the majority Of you viii marry and have
right 10 marry, and as your religious teacher
wish 30 say 10 these men IN the chniee OF all
seek Divine direction. About thirty-hve years
ago when Martin Farquhar Tupper, the Eng
hsh poet urged men 20 prayer before they de-
cided upon matriAl association, people laughed
And some Of them have lived to laugh on the
other side Of their mouth. The need Of Divine
direction argue from the fact that so many
men, and some Of them strong and wise, have
wrecked their lives at this juncture. Witness
samson and this woman Of Timnath. Witness
Socrates pecked OF the historical Xantippe
Witness Job, whose wife had nothing 10 pre-
scribe for his carbuncles but allopathic doses
OF profanity. Witness Ananias, a liar, who
might perhaps have been cured by truthful
spouse, yet marrying as great liar as himself
-Sapphira4 Witness John Wesley, one of the
best men that ever lived united to one Of the
most outrageous and scandalous of women
who sat in City Road Chapel making
mouths at him while he preached Witness
the once connubial wretchedness of John Rus
kin, the great art essayist, and Frederick W.
Robertson, the great preacher Witness o
thousand hells on earth kindled by unworthy
wiyes-termigants that scOld like a March
northeastern female spendthrifts that put their
husbands into fraudulent schemes to get money
enough TO meet the lavishment of domestic ex-
penditure; opium eating women-abOut four
hundred Thousand of them in the United States
who will have the drug thaugh it should
cause the eternal damnatlon of the whole
household; heartless and overbearing and
namby-pamby and unreasonable women, vet
married perhaps to good men. These
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where the husbands and SONS go because they
can't stand it at home. On this sea of matri-
mOny, where SO many have wrecked am not
right in advising Divine pilotage?
Especially is devout supplcation needed,
because of the fact that society is 80 full of ar
tihcialities that men are deceived as to whom
they are marrying, and no one but the Lord
knows After the dress-malier, and the mil
liner, and and the jeweler, and the hair-ad-
juster, and the dancing master, and the cos
metic art have completed their work, how is an
unsophistcated man to decipher the physiolog-
ical hieroglyphics and make accurate Judgment
of who it ID to whom he offers hand and heart?
That is what makes SO many recreant huB-
bands. They make an honorable marriage
contract, but the goods delivered are different
from the sample by which they bargained
They we're simply swindled, and they backed
out They mistook Jezebel for Longfellow's
Eyangeline, and Lucretia Borgia for Martha
Washington.
Aye; as the Indian chief boasts of the scalps
he has taken, SO there are in society to-day
many coquettes who boast of the masculine
hearts they have captured And these women,
though they may live amid the richest uphol-
stery, are not so honorable as the cyprians of
the street, for these advertise their infamy
while the former profess heaven while they
mean hell There is 80 much counterfeit wo-
manhood abroad it is no wonder that some
cannot tell the genuine coin from the base
Do you not realize you need Divine guidance
when remind you that mistake is possible in
this important affair, and, if made, is irrevoca-
BILE? -
UNHAPPY MARRIAGES..
The worst predicament possible is to be un-
happily yoked together. You see it is impossi-
BILE to break the yoke. The more you pull
apart the more CALLING the yoke. The minister
might bring you up again, and in your pres
ence read the marriage ceremony backward,
might put put you on the opposite sides of the
altar from where you were when youwere united,
might take the ring off of the finger, might
rend the wedding veil asunder, might tear out
the marriage leaf from the family Bible record;
but all that would fail to unmarry you. 1t is
better not to make the mistake than to attempt
its correction But men and women do not re-
veal all their characteristics till after marriage,
and how are you to avoid committing the fatal
blunder? There If only one Being in the uni
that is the Lord of Paradise. He made Eve for
Adam and Adam for Eve, and both for each
other. Adam had not large group of women
from who to select his wife, but it is fortunate,
Judging from some mistakes which he after
! ward made, that it was Eve or nothing
There is in all the world some one who was
made for you, as certainly as Eve was made
for Adam. All sorts of mistakes occur because
Eve was made out of rib from Adams side,
Nobody knows which Of his twenty -four ribs
was taken for the nucleus If you depend en-
tirely upon yourself in the selection of wife
there are twenty-three possibilities to one that
you will select the wrong rib BY the fate Of
Ahab, whose wife induced him to steal; by the
fate of Macbeth, whose wife pushed him into
massacre; by the fate of James Ferguson, the
philosopher, whose wife entered the room
while he was lecturing and willfully upset his
astronomical apparatus, so that he turned to
the audience and said, ladies and gentlemen,
| have the misfortune to be married to this
woman" by the fate of Bulwer, the novelist,
whose wife,s temper was so incompatible that
he furnished her a beautiful house
near London and withdrew from her company,
leaving her with the one dozen dogs whom she
entertained as pets; by the fate of John Milton,
| who married a termigant after he was blind,
| and when some one called her rose the poet
said: 81 am no judge of colOrs. but it may be
so, for feel the thorns daily" by the fate of
to dance on his grave that he was buried in the
sea; by the fate of village minister whom
knew whose wife threw cup of hot tea across
the table because they differed in sentiment
by all these scenes of dsquietude and domestic
| calamity, we implore you to be cautious and
prayerful before you enter upon the cOnnubial
state, which decides whether o man shall have
two heavens or two hellH, and haven here and
heaven forever, or hcll now and hell here-
after. ta1a4 3.s
NOBLE WIVES
By the bliss of Pliny, whose wife, when her
| husband was pleading in Court had messen-
gers coming and going to inform her what i'm
| preston he was making; by the JOY of Grotius,
| whose wife delivered him from prison under
the pretense of having books carried out lest
they be injurious to his health, she sending out
| her husband unobserved in one of the book
cases; by the good fortune of Roland in Louis
| tme whose wife translated and composed for
| her husband while Secretary of the Interior
talented, heroic, wonderful Madame Roland;
| by the happiness of many man who has made
intelligent choice of one capable of being prime
| counselor and companion in brightness and in
/ grief-pray to Almighty God, morning, noon,
| and night, that at the right time and in the
| right way He will send you good, honest,
| loving sympathetic wife; or, if she is not sent
| to you, that you may be sent to her.
/ AT this point let me warn YOU not to let q
| question Of this Importance be settled by the
| celebrated matchmakers in almost every COM
| munity. Depend upon your own Judgment,
| divinely illumined. These brokers in matri-
mony are ever planning how they can unite
| lmpecunlous innocence to an heiress, or cell
| bate woman to millionaire or Marquis, and
| that in many cases makes life an unhappiness.
| How can any human.being, who knows neither
| of the two parties as God knows them, and who
| is ignorant of the future, give such direction
| as you require at such erisis Take the ad-
| vice of the earthly matchmakars instAad of the