Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-25
Goes the Girl to Meet Her COIogned,
Pomatumed and Padded
Lover,
Flight, Pursuit, Narrow Escape. frawn
Dagger and UDadalterated
PcrdItlon.
Eiopemcnts nnd Escapades tho Romauoe
--Buying Tobacco and Beer, sup
porting Husband the S.saii,y.
Special to the Gazette.

dag in thu Brooklyn tabernacle TIE third
OF his series oil sermons on "The Mar
rlage Ring y The hymn sung bF'ahe con-
0regation begins.
.Jfy soul. pc on thy guard
fen tn. sand foei arise,
And hu.fs of sin are prcssinTe ard
To drew thee frcn the skief"
Prof. Browne rendered on tbe organ the
sonata No ] in ID minor b. Guilmaut
THE subject OF Or Talmagc's sermon was
"Clandest.ne Marriages and Escapades, y
ard the text, Proverbs TX, 7 and l6
"Stolrn oates arc sweet, ard bread taken
in secres If pleasant. BIZ he knOwetn
not that the dead are there The preach
or said
The Garden oi Eden vas great or
chard ei fruit 1rees, bushels and bushels
of round ripe, T,lorious fruit, but the nor
ticulturist and'his wife saving II Ia charge
hapkered for .rie specssl tree, simply be-
cause II was fora idden, starting
bad break - human ma
ture, so that children will
now sometinas do something simply be-
cause they sTe forbidden TO do IL. This
kink In the uman ra1e Is not easily I'M
snGrled. Tell Company that they may
look INTO ANY twenty rooms of large
hOuse except one, and their chief desire
Is 10 see tnat one, Enough all the others
were pictu-e galleries and that q garnet
II there were In a region of min
eral sprlRgs tweHsy fountains, but the
proprietor had fenced in one well against
the pnblic, the ore fenced In would be
the chief temptation 10 the visitors and
they would rather taste OF that than of the
other nineteen Solomon recognized this
principle in the text and also the disaster
that follows forbidden conduct when he
said 7" stolen waters are sweet, and
bread eaten IN secret is pleasant. But he
knowe,h not that the dead arc there
In This course OF sermons on "The
Marriage Ring" | this morning aim Il
point-hlank shot at "Clandestine Marri-
ages aud EsCapadts - Yonder comes up
through the narrows OF New York harbor
ship having all the evidence of tempes.
tous passage Salt-wat mark reaching
to the top of the smOke-stuck. Mainmast,
foremast, mi2zen-mast twisted OF. Bull
warks Knocked in Life-boats off the
davlt. Jib.sheets and lee-bowlines miss
ing. Captains bridge demolished. Main
shaft broken All the pumps working to
keep from sinking before they can get b.
wharfage. That ship is the institution of
Christian marriage, launched by the Lord
IRA dly from the banks OF the Euphrates
ton aud happiness of all nations. But
,Free-lOvelsm struck it from one side, aud
Mormunism struck II from another side
and hurricanes of libertinism have struck
IL on all sides until the old ship needs re-
pairs In every plank and beam and sail
and bolt and clamp aud transom and
stanchlon.
In other words, the notions of modern
society must be reconstructed on the sub
ject of the marriage institution AnC
when e,hAye got 1t back somewhere neal
what twas when God built II In Para
disc, the earth will be far on toward re-
sumption of Paradisaical conditions. DC
you ask what IN the need OF
course OF sermons on this sub
ectY The man or woman who
asks this question Is ethel
ignorant or guilty IN Now England
which has been considered by many tht
most moral part OF the United States
there are two thousand divorces pc
year. Aud in Massachusetts, the head
quarters of steady habits, there is one Of
vorce 30 every fourteen marriages. Tn,
state OF Maine, considered ny many almos
trigid In proprieties, has IN one year 47S
divorces In Vermont swapping wives i
not rare transaction. In Connection
there are women who boast that the,
have four or five times been divorced
Moreover, our boosted Professionalism Is
on this subject, more lax than Roman
Catholicism Roman Catholicism admit
Of no divorce except the reason tia
Christ admitted as Il lawful reason. Blu
Professionalism Is admitting anything an,
everything, and the larger the proportion
ot fotestantS In nny part OF the country
the larger the iHtlo OF divorce. DO yol
not tarn think that Professionalism ncedi
some toning up ~ this subirctl
Aye, whom yuG rea llo that the sacret
and diVine institution is being caricG
tufed aud DETAINED by clandeStine mar
riages aud esrapades all over the land
does there not seem call for such ais
cussiuu. Hardly morning or evenin,
paper comes Into your possession with
ont reporting tkem, and there are fifty o
these occurrences whore one IS reported
because Il ~ the Interest OF all parties I,
hush them up. The victims are, all hour
OF the night, cllmhing down ladders o
crossing uver from state TO state, tina
they may reach laws OF greater laXity
holding receptions elk months after mar
rlage To let the puhlc know for the lrs
time that "a half year before they wer
united in wedlOek. Ministers Of religion
and justices of the peace, aud mayors o
citler willingly jplning In marriage ruua
ways from other states and neigh or
hoodS; the coach-bON and the back sea
N the priucely landau Ia firtatl0n; tele
green's flashing across thecountry for tn
arrest OF absconded schoolmissc
whV started of with an a mfuil OF books
and0aklng rail trains 60 meet their ain
anceG---iu the snow-dFIfts OF the grea
storm shat has recently passed over III,
country some OF them, read, have Per
ishcd--thousauds of people 10 marriage
whose bans have never been published
preclpitaed conjugality; bgamy tri
umphaats marriage Joke; societ,
blotched ail aver with a putneiactlon o.
this subject, which no one but the AL
pighty God can arrest,
We admit that clandestInity and esea
pa1e are sometmrs authorized aud mad
right by parental tyranny or domesti
sertdom. There have been exceptions
cases where parents have had monoma
MIA In regard 20 their sons and daughters
demanding their cehbaey or forhiddinl
relations every way right. Through ab
surd family ambition parenss have some