The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-03-26

rying as great as nlmSelL-oappnifa. WIZ
ness 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 counubial wretchedness of John Rus :
kin, the great art essayist, and Frederick
w. Robertson, the great preacher. Wit
ness a thousand hells on earth kindled by
unworthy wives, termagants that scoid
like a March northsastsr; female spend
thrifts, that put their husbands into frau
dulent schemes to get money enough to
meet the lavishment of domestic expendi-
ture; opium-eating women-about 100000
of them i'm the United States-who will
have the drug though it should cause the
eternal damnation of the whole household;
heartless and overbearing, and namby-
pamby and unreasonable women, yet
married; married perhaps to good men.
These are the women who build the low
club.houses, where the husbands and sons
go because they can't stand it at home. On
this sea Of matrimony, where so many have
wrecked, am I not right in advising Divine
pilotage:
Especially is devout duplication needed
because Of the fact that society is so full of
artificialities that men are deceived as to
whom they are marrying, and no one but
the Lord knows. After the dressmaker,
and the milliner, and the jeweler, and the
hair adjuster, and the dancing master, and
the cosmetic art, have completed their
work, how is an unsophisticated man to
decipher the physiological hieroslyphics,
and to make accurate judgment of who it
is to whom he offers hand and heart. That
is what makes 50 many recreant husbands.
They make an honorable marriage con-
tract, but the goods delivered are 50 differ
emit from the sample by which they bar
gained. They were simply swindled, and
they backed out. They mistook Jezebel
for Longfellow's Evanseline, 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 richest upholstery, are not
so honorable as the cyprians of
the street, for these advertise their in
fanny, while the former profess heaven
while they mean hell. There is so much
counterfeit womanhood abroad it is no
wonder that some can not tell the genuine
coin from the base. Do you not realize
you need Divine guidance when remind
You that mistake is possible in this inn
portant affair, and, il made, is ire
vocable.
There is in all the world some one who
was made for you, rs certainly Us Eve was
made for Adam. All sorts OF mistakes oc-
cur because Eve was made out of a rib
from Adams side, Nobody knows which
Of his ribs was taken for the nucleus. II
you depend entirely upon yourself in the
of wife. there are twenty-three |
possibilities to one that you win select the |
wrong rib. By the fate of Ahab, whose |
wife induced him to steal: by the fate Of |
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 |
be turned to the audience and said: "La-
lies and gentlemen. have the misfortune
70 be married to til woman" by the
late OF Bulwsr, the novelist, whose wife's
temper was so incompatible that he fur
1ished her . beautiful house near London
md withdrew from her company, leaving
ler with the one dozen dogs whom she en-
'ertained as pets; by the fate OF John Mil
ON, who married a termagant after he was
blind, and when some one called her q rose
he poet said: 81 am no judge Of colors,
nut it may be so, for / feel the thorns
laily;" by the fate OF an Engiishman,
whose wife was SO determined to dance
N his grave that he was buried in the sea;
" the fate Of a village minister whom +
knew, whose wife threw Q
up of hot tea across the table because they |
Uttered in sentiment-by all these scenes
L disquietude and domestic calamity, we
mplore you to be cautious and prayerful
'efore you enter upon the connubial state,
vhich decides whether . man shall have
wo heavens or two bells, . heaven here
nd heaven forever, or hell now and .
ell hereafter.
By the bliss of Piiny, whose wife, when
Ter husband was pleading in court, had
passengers coming and going to inform
er what impression he was making; by
he joy Of Grotius, whose wife delivered
i'm from prison under the pretense of hav.
az books carried out lest they be injurious
Q his health, she sending out her husband
nobserved in one Of the bookcases; by the
God fortune Of Roland, in Louis time,
those wife translated and composed for
er husband, while Secretary Of the Inte-
lor-taiented, heroic, wonderful Nine. Ro-
md; by the happiness Of many . man
rho has made intelligent choice Of one ca
able Of being prime counselor and com.
anton in brightness and in grief-pray to
lmighty God. morning, noon and night,
1at at the right time and in the rightway
. win send You a good, honest, loving,
Tmpathetic wife; or il she Is not sent to
on. that You may be sent to her.
II you have this prayful spirit you win
nrely avoid all female scoffers at the |
hristian religion; aud there are quite :
lumber OF them in all communities.
must be told that, though the |
My influence that keeps woman
ON being e.timated and treated
. dave aye, as brute
I'd beast OF burden--is Christianity.
nee where IL is mot dominant she In ~
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