The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-01-20

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 essaytat, and Frederick
w. Robertson, the great preacher Wit
ness a thousand hells on earth kindled by
unworthy wives, termagants that scold
like March northeaster; female spend
thrifts, that put their husbands into frau-
dulent schemes to get money enough 10
meet the lavishment of domestic expendi-
ture; opium -eating women--about 4OO,oOO
Of them in the United States-who will
have the drug though 1t should cause the
eternal damnation of the whole househoid;
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
20 because they can't stand 1t at home. On
this sea of matrimony, where SO many nave
wrecked, am not right in advising Divine
pilotage?
Especially is devout supplication 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 hieroglyphics,
and to make accurate Judgment OF VINO IL
Is to whom he offers hand and heart. That
Is what makes so many recreant husbands.
Thew make an honorable marriage con-
tract. but the goods delivered are so differ
ent from the sample by which they bar
gained. They were simply swindled, and
thew backed out. They mistook Jezebel
for Longfellow's Evangeline, and Lucretla
Borgia for Martha Washington.
Ave: 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 oil
the street, for these advertise their in
fanny, while the former profess heaven
while they mean hell. There is so much
counterfeit womanhood abroad 1t Is no
:, wonder that some can not tell the genuine
:, coin from the base Do you not realize
= you need Divine guidance when reminu
you that mistake is possible in this I'M
. portant affair, and, If made, is ire
:, vocable.
u There is in all the world some one who
was made for you, as certainly as Eve wa
:, made for Adam. All sorts Of mistakes oc
cur because Eve was made out OF I'll
- from Adams side, Nobody knows whicl
y of his ribs was taken for the nucleus
). you depend entirely upon yourself IN tn
'o' selection of wife. there are twenty-thre
-, possibilities TO one that you will select Tn
81 wrong rib. By the fate Of Ahab, who's
-o wife induced him to steal; by the Iate
~ Macbeth, whose wife pushed him in'
~ 40 massacre; by the fate Of James Ferguson
~ the philosopher, whose wife entered u
W room while he was lecturing and willfull
:" unset his astronomical apparatus, so TN
he turned TO the audience and said: "Lt
- dies and gentlemen, have the mistortuI
~ TO be married to this woman;" by u
fate of Bulwer, the novelist, whose wire
=. temper was so incompatible that he III
-, nlshed her a beautiful house near LondC
and withdrew from her company, leavli
a, her with the one dozen dogs whom she
M is' tertained as pets; by the fate OF John h
ton, who married a termagant after he W
-, blind, and when some ono called her re
~, S the poet said: "I am no judge OF colo
W. but Il may be so, for l feel the thor
lon daily;D by the fate of an EnglishmG
''So whose wife was so determined to dan
'o a on his grave that he was buried in the Sc
Wv by the fate Of a village minister whC
, knew. whose wife threw
u cup of hot tea across the table because tn
gu, differed in sentiment-by all these seer
NV Of dlsquietude and domestic calamity
~ lmplore you to be cautious and prayer
~. before you enter upon the connubiai sta
a' which decides whether a man shall ha
Dsei two heavens or two hells, a heaven b
- and heaven forever, or a hell now and
~. hell hereafter.
",S By the bliss Of Pliny, whose wife, VII
no her husband was pleading in court, !
.,I messengers coming and going to lnfo
'.,' her what impression he was making;
up the ioy of Grotius, whose wife delive
puS him from prison under thepretense OF h
% | ing DOCKS caTTleu OuV ioS' 'HNy ~ i"'
- to his health, she sending out her husba
. unobserved in one Of the bookcases; by
~, good fortune of Roland, in Louis u
'"' whose wife translated and composed
.ho her husband, while Secretary OF the II
-."o, rior-talented, heroic, wonderful Nine
- land; by the happiness Of many a
- who has made intelligent choice OF one
Tn pable Of being prime counselor and c.
,Dora panion In brightness and in griof-pra.
Ia Almighty God, morning, noon and nj
",ha that at the right time and in the right
iii. he will send you good, honest, Low
Tho sympathetic wife; OF II she is not sent
A. YOU, that you may be sent to her.
3 ey. II you have this prayful spirit you
care surely avoid all female scoifers at
thou Christian religion; aud there are qul
arry, number Of them in all communi
,t of It must be told that, though
is an only influence that keeps wo
will from being estimated and tire
n this as slave - aye, as
II a and q beast OF burden-is Christian
is un. since where IL is not dominant she
10 has treated, yet there are women who wi
right far forget themselves and forget their
Q life that they will 90 and hear lect'
re the malign Christianity and scon at the
sane sacred things OF the soul. A good wo
,szard oyerpersuaded by her husband, ma