Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-25

Rev. I. De Witt Talmage, u. ID preached
10 day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, th'
third of his series OF sermons on The
Marriage Ring" The hymn sung by III,
congregations Aegins:
"Aiy soul, he on thy guard
Ten thousand loes arise,
And hosts oi sin are pressing h1rl
To Jraw thss iroI tho skies"
Professor Browne rendered on the organ
the sonata No in d minor, by Guillmant
The subject Of DR.. Talmages sermon wa
"Claudes.ine Marriages sri EIcApales, "
and the text, Pco5srbs tx, II and Il.
Stolen waters are sweet, and brCAi taken
in secret is pleasant. Bat he kno@5!h no.
that the dead are there" The preacher
said:
THE GARDES OF EDEN
Was q great orchard Of fruitbearlug trees,
bushels aud bushels Of Folnd, ripe glorious
fruit, but the hurlicllturst aud his wife
having it in charEe hauktred for one spe
cial tree simply because it was lOyb:Gden
starting in bad streak in human nature, SO
thai ch,ltreu will now sometimes d. some
thing because tGey are forbidden 10 do It
This kiuk in the human race is not easily
unmarried Tell company that Ii = may
look into any t%rn'y rooms OF lar@a
house except one, aui lhrir cuirt dssirh l.
to see that oue, though a.! the Others werc
picture galleries aud tha: . @t're'
II there were in o region
Of mineral springs twenty fountains, bat
the proprietor had fenced in one well
against the public, the one fenced in would
be the chief temp,a,ila . the visitors. and
they would rather ta',e OF ,hgt than OF III"
other nineteen, Sulomo r.cogmlsd thi@
principle i'll the text and also the disaster
that follows forbidden conduct, when he
said. "ytClgu watc.5 .rc sweet, ana bread
eaten in $ cret ;5 pleasant Bat h" .'noEcth
not that the dead Gfe there
In this course OF serm)us Oh the Mac.
riage Ring, |, this morning AIN
A roINIElA%E SHOT
ut "Claudeshue Marriages aid Escap-drS
IouJer comes up through the u"r:o"5 "i
New York barber l. ship h4YIus al the
evidence OF tenp~s.UUI5 passage: Sal;
water mark reaching 10 the top O! the
smOkes,ack. Mainmlst, tUgemas', miz.
zenmast twisted oil' BuIwarks knocked
in. I.ileb1a'8 of the davit Ji5sheets
aud lee bowiiues missing. Captains bridge
demolished Main shaft broken. The pumps
working to Keep tccm sinking bsiocc they
can ge; to wharfage. That ship $ the
institution Of christian marriage, launched
By the Lord grandiy from the Oaaks I'll tEe
Euphrair4, and tiraiag GU. un the seas 'or
tbs adnjcaiioa aad Happiness OF "ii ia.
tious. hut Free loyrislA struck L Ia"
ono side cal GynAoaism lrJm GHolEer
side. and hurricanes Of lib=cliu 5ism h~y"
struck it on al. sides until tua old s'dp
needs repair in every plank and beam a"I
sail ami bolt aud CLAMP and tTaneom and
stanchi0n.
In Other woy1s, the motions Of mod@Fn
society
MUST ~ RECONSTRUCTED
on the subec' ci the mar7ia,s inshtulio"
Aud VIXEN We have rot il back Somewhere
near where it Was when God built it III Par
.dise, tLe earth will be far OH to%~ri
resumption Of Pa:adisecGl conditions. -
you aaE what IL The need o. q C0GreeSoi ser
mons On this suti~c1? The man @!
woman who GsEs this question il either
ignorant or guilty. In New hng!&rd
which has been considered b. many the
most moral parl Of the | nited States there
are two thousand divorces per year. And
in Massachusetts,, the headquarters d
steady habits, there is one divorce 20 every
fourteen marriages. The State of Maile
considered by many almost trlgid IN pro
prieties, has 10 one year iIS divorces. In
Vermont swapping wives is not raE'
t-en9acticn. In Connecticut there are VIC
men who Doasi tuat tuoy nave .Jur o. lave
times been divorced. Moreover, OIL,
boasted Pro'estantism is, ON this EubI'ct
more lax than Roman Catholicism Roman
Cathol!cism admits ol 40 iiverce eNcep
the reason tha. Christ admitted as q lI"tu
reason. But Professionalism ID aamitiu!
anything aud everything, aud tLa !Grg
the proportion oE ProteOtGnts in any par
Of the country the larger tie ratio o
divorce. Do you not then think tha
Erotestaptigr Ice.i: cone tlriug IT ol
this subject
Aye, when you realize thai me 7lcGe,
/ and divine institution is being
CARIcATURED ATn DETAINED
by clandestne marriages and escapaias HI
over the lgud does there rot seem y c"I
; for such discussion Gardly C. morn.u.
or evening paper comes Into YOUR posses
sion, without reporting them, and there ar
fifty OF these occurrences where one i3 Il
& port. IecGlse i i tao intsI5. q al 7 :.
/ ties to bugl tleL. uq. rhc v.c.ir.' rrc. a
hours Of tbe rjgut, ci.LblnG do"n lAdGer
or crossing over .ro@ aia,a 10 atatv. o.!
they may reach laws Of greater hIIt'
holding receptions six months offer mal
riGg.. J.. e. to nnhha know Iyr the fir,
l,ae tbgi q hal! fear UoIGrs thog Lc.- 49,.
ted in wt,'k A,""k, Ministers oi religion an
Justices Of the peace, and mayors =, '''''''
willingly joining ia marriage runaway
frGm o!Ie. States -ad nsigh,. orho1ds: Il
coach box aud the Daos sen, .
the prinColy landau in Iirtatjou; .ri.
grams flashing across the country 10
the arrest OF ah5c0nd i school TG;,se
who started of with srm IIil e hooa.s, ~
taking rail- trains 10 me: their ailiHECsd
in the sno FGriCt5 OF the .reat storm tina
has receatly passed over the country sJr
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