Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-26
DAMAGES
n,.course of the Series on
+ho Marriage Ring"

$hA HNld4
nutfes Of Husband and Wife,
with suggestions on the Preservation
nomestic Harmony and Gull
.,re Of Home Pleasures.
:,-s below the fourth Of Rev. T. De.
g%a,mage's series of discourses on
" ,t~arriaee Ring" delivered recently
ne prooklyr Tabernacle. The tex
,xo walk together, except they DO
.ssd-Amos Ills
10 said: No, Amos they can not. iney
= ns tripping each other up, or pushing
s.her down. Married life under such
Gu "st,nces will be the sounding of per-
'uA, varhoop. In this course of SER
Qua, "The Marriage Ring,"I will to-
' ,nsak of the mutual duties of husband
pife, preparatory to discourses on
sr Individual duties.
,hurch within a church, q republic
s,in republic. a world within a world,
' n.,,.d bv four letters-home! If things
p;rbt there, they go right everywhere;if
;nrs 90 wrong there, they go wrong
.s.where. The door.sill of the dwell
horse is the foundation of Church and
e. man never gets higher than his
w ao rret or lower than his own cellar.
a.hor words, domestic life overarches
y nndergirds all other life. The highest
..a Of is the domestic circle;
l. rocsing-chair in the nursery is higher
the throne. George Washington
amonded the forces of the United
'".as but Martha Washing.
!" commanded George. Chrysostom's
(o.bsr made his pen for him. fla man
Lo,,d start out and run seventy years in a
[r,irbt line, he could not get out from
nder the shadow of his own mantlepiece.
.horofo r talk to you this morning about
natter of infinite and eternal moment
|hen Ispeak of your home.
AZ individuals we are fragments. God
| akes the race in part, and then he grad
[ally puts us together. What 1 lack you
bake up: what you lack l make up; our
efcits and s%urrlusses of character being
,e cog.wheels in the great social mechan-
I'm, One person has the patience, another
as the courage, another has the p%lacidity,
mother has the enthusiasm; that which is
pckjng in one is made up by another, or
= ade up by all. Buffaloes in herds, grouse
n broods. uuails in focks, the human race
y circles. God has most beautifully ar
Eauged this. 1t is in this way that he
balances society; this conservative and
hat radical keeping things even. Every
Ehip must it's mast, cutwater, taffrail,
ballast. Thank God, then, for Princeton
ind Andover, for the opposites. I
have no more right to blame a man for
being different from me than a driving
wheel has a right to blame the iron shaft
that holds it to the center. John Wesley
balances Calvin's institutes. A cold think
r gives to Scotland the strong bones of
heoloyv: DR.. Guthrie clothes them with Q
hrobbing heart and warm flesh. The diff
culty is that we are not satisfied with just
he work that God has given US to do. The
.ater-wheel wants to come inside the mill
nd grind the grist and the hopper wants
Y ~ va anu NLuUD1c III Cuc "1Ucl. OuI
%sefulness and the welfare of society de-
end upon our staying in just the place
hat God has put US or intended we should
ccupy.
For more compactness, and that we may
e more useful. we are gathered in still
mailer circles in the home group. And
here you have the same varieties again;
P%rothers, sisters, husband and wife, oil
%ifferent in temperament and tastes. 1t is
%ortnnate that it should be so. If the hus.
Pand be all impulse the wife must be all
prudence. If one sister be sanguine il
Der temperament the other must b.
Fmphatic. Mary and Martha are ne
f%essltlcS. There will be no dinner fol
Fhrlst If there be no Martha; ther,
VIII be no audience for Jesus if there b,
0 Mary. The home organization is mos
BEAUTIFULLY constructed. Eden is gone
he bowers are all broken down: the ami
iiais that Adam stroked with his hand
nat morning when they came up to gel
leif names have since shot forth tusk and
1'ngsand growled panther at panther
Iha midalr, iron beaks plunge till with
losSed wing and eyeless sockets the twai1
w%hirling down from under the sun
! olood and fire. Eden has gone, but
'ese is Just one little fragment left. II
oaUed down on the river Hiddekel out of
araalse. 1t is the marriage institution
ooes not, as at the beginning, take
way from man a rib. Now it is an addi.
ion Of ribs.
lnls institution of marriage has been de.
''nea IN our day, and influences are
"oau trying to turn this earth into a
grAish harem or a great Salt Lake City.
me me pulpits have been comparative
sllent' novels-their cheapness only
qualed by their nastiness-are trying to
aucate, have taken upon themselves to
uuea'e, this Nation in regard to holy
'a,tlage, which makes or breaks for time
~ Aof eternity. Oh, this is not a
'ete question of residence or wardrobe
ia question charged with gigantic joy
Soirow, with Heaven or hell. Alas for
new dispensation of George
Alas for the mingling
The nightshade with the mar
aye sarlands! Alas for the enom
aoaers spit into the tankards! Alas fol
= "nise frosts of eternal death that kill
orange blossoms! The gospel of Jesus
nA' is TO assert wat is right and to as
"hat is wrong. Attempt has beer
t,i 10 take NSs marriage Institution
nl'l was intended for the happiness and
aeon OF the race, and make it a mere
numerical enterprises: an exchange o1