The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-27

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rying . great as himself Sapphirs. Wit.
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
ct him while he preached. Witness the
once connubisl wretchedness Of John Rus
hin, the great art essayist, and Frederick
W. Robertson, the great preacher. Wit
ness thousand bells on earth kindled BY
unworthy wives, termagants that scold
like . March northsaster; female spend.
thrifts, that put their husbands into frau
dulent schemes to get money enough to
meet the lavishment Of domestic expendi.
turss opium eating women--about 100000
Of them In the United States-who will
have the drug though II should cause the
eternal dainnation Of the whole household;
heirtlsss and overbearing, and namby.
PANTY and. unreasonable women, yet
married; married psrhaps TO good men.
These are the women who build the low
club.houses, where the husbands and sons
go because they can't stand II 1t home. On
this seq Of matrimony, where 50 many have
wrecked, am not right in advising Divine
pilotage! 'l''''i O." 81 h''
Especially IL devout supplication needed
because Of the fact that society Is 20 full Of
artifcialities 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 hierogly phics,
and to make accurate judgment Of who It
is 10 whom he offers hand and heart. That
is what makes so many recreant husbands.
They make an honorable marriage con-
tract, but the goods delivered are 90 differ.
emit from the sample by which they bar
gained, They were simply swindled, and
they backed out. They mistook Jexebel
for Longfellow's Evangelins, and Lucretia
Bsrgia 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 90 much
counterfeit womanhood abroad It Is no
wonder that some can not tell the genuine
coin from the base. Do ysu not realize
you need Divine guidance when remind
you that mistake is possible in this i'm
portant affair, and, II made, is ire
vOcable. .Wuu radio
| There Is in all the world some one who
was made for you, Is certainly As Eve was
made for Adam. All sorts Of mistakes oc.
| cur because Eve was made oat Of . rib
from Adams side, Nobody knsws which
| Of bis ribs was taken for the aucleus. II
you depend entirely upon yourself In the
selection of wife. there are twenty. three
| possibilities 10 one that ysu will select the
wrong rib. Blythe fsta 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 catered the
room while he was lsctpring and willfully
upset his astronomical apparatus, SO that
he turned to the audience and said: LA.
dies and gentlemen, have the misfortune
to be married to this woman" by the
fate Of Bulwer, tho novelist, whose wife's
temper was so incompatible that he fur.
nished her beautiful house near London
and withdrew from her company, leaving
her with the one dozen dogs whom she en-.
tertained as pets; by the fate Of John Mil
ton, who married termsgant after be was
blind, and when some one called her rose
the poet said: ~ ~ no Judge Of colors,
but 1t may be so, for feel, the thorns
daily;" by the fate Of an Englishmsn,
whose wife was 80 determined 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 disquistude and domestic calamity, we
implore you to b cautious and prayerful
before you enter upon The connubial state,
which decides whether . man shall have
two heavens or two hells, ., heaven here
and heaven forever, or + hell now and I
hell hereafter. ttN fi7lti I'D
BY the bliss Of Pliay, whose wife, when
her husband was pleading Il court, had
messengers coming and going to inforn
her what impression he was making; ~
the joy Of Grotius, whose wife delivered
him from prison under tAepretense of hav.
Ing books carried out lest they be injurious
to his health, she sending out her husband
anObserved In one Of the bookcases; by the
good fortune Of Roland, In Louis time,
whose wife translated and composed for
her husband, while Secretary Of the Inte-
rior--talented, heroic, wonderful Nine. No.
land; by the happiness Of many . man
who has made intelligent choice OF one ca
pable Of being prime counselor and com.
psnion in brightness and in grief-pray 70
Almighty God, morning, noon and night,
that at the right time and In the right way
he will send you a good, honest, loving,
sympathetic wife; or il she is not sent to
you, That you may be sent to her.
II you have this prsyfal spirit you will
surely avoid all female scoffers ct the
Christian religion; aud there are quite .
number of them In all communities.
1t must be told that, though the
only influence that keeps woman
from being estimsted and treated
as slave : aye, as brute
and . beast Of burden-is Christianity,
since where it 10 not dominant she 10 20
treated, yet there are women who will 90
far forget themselves and forget their God,
that they win 90 and hear lecturers
malisn Christianity and SCOT at the most
sacred things Of the soul. A good woman,
oyerpersladed BY her husband, may 60
once TO. hear such ., trade against the