The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-01-28
oLANDE,rINE MARRIAGES.
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habits No wonder that In such circumstances
parents In conjugating the verb In question
pass from the subjunotiye mood 10 The indi'
oatiye, and from the Indicative 70 tho impera-
tive In nearly all the cases Of escapAde that
you will hear OF tho rest Of your lives there will
| be headlong leap over The barriers Of parental
common sense and forethought Stolen
waters arc sweet and broad eaton In secret in
pleasant But he knoweth not that the dead
are there"
We also deplore these fraudulent espousalh
and this sneaking exchange Of single life for
married life because II Ia deception, and that 10
corroding and damning yioa You must
deceive your kindred, you must deooive society,
you must deceive all but God, and Him you
cannot deceive, Deception does not injuro
others 30 much "a II INJURIES OF rsolvoa Mar
riage is too important u crisis In onos life 10
be decided by sloight Of hand or sort OF
| jugglery which says; aProsto, changol Now
you SEQ hor, and now you DON'T Better walt
| for years for circumstances to imptova Time
may remove all obstacles Tho candidate for
marital preferences may change his habits, or
| get into some trade or business that will sup
/ DOTl " HONnot VI Nno lhoAoihbo AhNhoi uhu
mother may bo promoted 10 celestial citizen
ship AT the right time have tho day ap-
| pointed Stand at the end Of tho best room In
the house with Joined hands and tho minister
OF religion before you 10 challenge tho world
that vi they know OF any reason why those
two persons shall not bo united thoy state II
now, or forever hold their peace" and then
start out with tho good wishes Of all tho neigh
bors and tho halo OF tho divine sanction.
When you can go out of harbor at neon with
all flags flying, do not try to run blockade at
midnight
In view Of all this charge you TO break up
Ulandostno correspondence, II yon arc engaged
In H. and have no moro olandestnO meetings
oithor at tho ferry, or on tho street or At tho
house OF mutual friends, or at the corner Of
hc woods, Do not have lottms come for you
10 the postoifce under An assumed address
Have no correspondence that makes you un-
easy lest some one by mistake open your let
tors Do not employ terms Of ondoarmont As
the beginning and close Of letters unless you
have right 10 uso them, That young lady Ia
on the edge Of danger who daros not allow her
mother 10 SEQ her lottors
II you have sensible parents take thom Int
your confidence In oil tho Affairs OF Me hoArt
They will give You moro advice In ono hour
than you can got from all tho world b0ddo In
Ayo years, Thoy have toilod for you 30 long
and prayed for you 40 much thoy have your
bost interests at hoart At tho gamo hmo lot
parents review their opposition TO proposed
marital alliance, and 500 II their opposition Ia
founded on genuine wish for tho nhilds vol
fare or on somo whm or notion or prejudice or
solhshnoea, fighting q natural law and trying
TO mako Niagara run up stream Mr.. Pitt, tho
Primo Minister OF England, was always saying
wise thlnga Ono day Sir Waltor Farquhar
called on him In great perturbation. Mr.. Plh
inquired what was tho matter, and Sir Walter
told him that his daughter was about W DO
married 10 ono not worthy OF hOr rank. Mr..
Pitt said; "Is the young man Of respectable
fhmilyp "Yos," sls ho respectable In
himself" "Yos." "llas no an ostimAblo
oharactorS" "Yoa" 1Why, thon, my doar Sir
Waltor, mako no opposition" Tho adyioO was
takon, and happy married lifo onouod. 10.
minister's and officers OF tho law doclmo on
ciating at clandostino marriagoe Whom thoy
are asked TO dato marriage certificate back, I
we all arc asked, lot thom poromptorily doolino
10 say that tho coromony was In November In
Btoad Of January, or decline 10 loavo tho dalo
blank lost others I'll out the record orronooualy
Lot law bo passed In all our Shtoa ~ II has
already bOon In eomo OF tho Staioa making q
hoonso from the oficors OF tho law necessary
before wo can unto couples, and thon mako II
necessary 10 publish beforehand In tho nows-
papers, NJ II used 10 bo published In ho Now
England churches, 40 that II thoro bo lawful
objection II may bo presented, not swinging tho
buoy on the rockeaftcr tho ship has struck aud
gono TO piooos And hero II might DO we'll for
mo 10 take all the romance out Of an osoapado
by quoting dozen lines OF Robert Pollock, tho
groAt Scotch poet, whore no Describes The
oraziod victim OF ono OF those oecapadosi
''' Yot had aho many daya
or Oorrow IN tho world, but noyor wont
Bhc llyod ON alma aud carried In hor hand
Bomo wlthcrod stalks oho gathered In tho aprlng
Whom thoy aakod the cause. aho smiled and nald
Thoy were her alstora, and would como and witch
Hor grave whom aho wao doad. Rho mover gpoho
OF her doooycr father, mother home,
Or child or heaven, or he'll, or God but utiIl
In lonely plaooe walked, aud ever grsod
Upon the withorod Otalku and talked 10 thcna
TIL wasted 10 the shadow OF her youth,
With WOO too Wide TO 100 beyond abe dlod
But now | turn on this subject an inlonaor
light We have 1900 lights In this church,
and whom by electric touch they Oro kIndlod In
tho 0yoning service II IN almost startling But
this whole subject Of "clandoatinO marriages
and oacapadoa" | put undor q moro ntonso
hUll lhnu that nhn HEADLIGHT or III.
Ia torriblo II you stand noar enough 10 catch
the fun glare OF II Ae II sweeps around tho
"horeoshoo curve" Of the AloghonIoa, or along
the odgc Of tho Sierra Noyadaa how far ahoad
and how deep down IN how high up II naahou
and thoro In an instantaneous revelation OF
mountain peak aud wild bcaata hiong thom.
solyoe 10 thoir caycrne, and oaacadoa thou
sand foot tall cllnging In whito terror " lho
procipIooa But moro Intense, moro far.roanh-
ing, ie the headlight of an advancing Judgment
day undor which all the most hidden affairs ~
lifo shall como 10 discovery and araera,ont
lquoto an overwhelming passage Secripturo
In which put tho whole omph.ain ON tho word
ssocroti' "God shall hr'iB ovory work into
Judgment with oyoy secret thing, wbotbor II
bo good or oyn
What amo that will bo In which Tho coyor
shall bo liftod from oyory homo aud from
oyory hoart Tho iniquity may have boon 10
sly that II escaped all human detection, but II
will bo ae wcll known on that day AZ tho crlmoa
OF Sodom and domarrah, unlose for OhrIats
sake II has boon forgiven. All tho nngora OF
universal condemnation will bo pointed AZ II
Tho 0rchangol of wrath will stand thoro with
upliftod thundorbolt roady 10 strike II Tho
squcamishnoee aud prudcry of earthly sooloty
which hardly allowed eomo alma 10 DO mon
toncd on carth, arc past and tho man who
was uncloan and the woman who was impure
will, undcr light brighter than q thousand
MONDAY suns, stand with tho whole story writ.
ton on scalp and forehead and ohooh and hands
and foot tho whole resurrection body alamo