Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-11
Some Timely Advice to Those Think
ing Of Embarkiug on the Open
Sea Of Matrimony.
Instances Of Unhappy Marriages, In
compatible Quantities which F'tl
TO Harmonic.
Hints IN Making n Choice--Iho First Of
series af Sermons on the Star.
riage Ring.
Vns rABrnNAcs.g SERMON.

rfcciai 70 the haHtttt.
VHE TABERNACLE SERMON.
BRooKiYN, N. ", jar. l0,-The Rev.
II. Dewitt Talmage preTched this morn
ing in the Brooklyn Tabernacle the irst
OF his series OF sermons on "ThC Marriage
Ring the subject being "The Choice Of
a Wife, In the series will be treated the
following subjects, Of the greatest import
nnce To every person: rThe Choice of
rlages and Kgcapades,n "Duties of Hus-
bands TO wiyes,n EQUITIES OF Wives to
Husbands ain Matters OF Religion,
Should the Wife Go with che Husband or
the Husband wiki the Wifcgn "The
Wrong ways ~ Women,n "Costumc and
Morals,r "Competent iloHsewifery,
"SeDsible Young Womanhood," "Women
Who will Pass Life Single" "lnfnence
OF Sisters over Brothers. "The Modern
Noyeland Woman" 'tBoardlng-house and
IIo.el Life" "ircasment Of Manseryant
and Maidseryaut.n The hymn sung on
the occasion was:
Tho morning Hight Is breaking,
The darkness disappears"
An organ solo was rendered by Prof
Henry Eyre Browne, who selected the
first sonata in d minor, by Ritter, for his
musical theme. After eXpouDding Il pas
sage Of Scripture Or. Talmage took fer
his text Judges xiv, 8 els there never a
woman among the daughters OF thy breth
rem, or among all my people, that thou
goest 10 take wife OF the uncircumcised
PhllistInes?n DR. Talmage said;
Samson, the giant, Is here asking con-
sent of his father and mother 10 marriage
with one whom they thought unfit for him.
He was wise In asking their counsel, but
not wise In rejecting 1t. Captiyated with
her looks the big son wanted
10 marry daughter of one
OF the hostile families, a deceitful, hypo-
critical, whining and saturnine creature
who aftcrward made for him world Ct
trouble till she quit him forever. In my
text his parents forbade the banns, prac.
tically saying; cav hen there are so many
honest and beautiful maidens OF your own
country, are you so hard put to for a life
time partner that you propose conjugality
with this foreign iirt? Is there such
dearth of lilies IA our lsraelitlsh gardens
that you must wear on your heart a Phil
istine thistley DO you take a crabapple
because there are no pomegranates? is
there never q " jman among the daughters
OF thy brethren, or among all my people,
that thou gOest 20 take wife OF the un-
ClICUluclkcu tnhtNllNckE
Excuseless was he ion such choice in
land and amid race celebrated for
female loyeliness and moral worth, u land
and race OF which seif-deDy ing Abigail,
and heroic Deborah and dazzling Vashti,
and pious Esther, and glorious Ruth, aud
Mary who Rugged TO her heartthe blessed
Lord, were only magnificent specimens.
The midnight folded Ia their hair, the
lakes Of liquid bcGuty Ia their eye, the
graceiulness Of spring morning in their
posture and gait, were only typical Of the
greater brillmuce and glory of their soul.
Likewise cXcuseless Is any man who
makes lifelong alliance with anyone who,
because OF her disposition, or heredlty, OF
habits, or intellectual, vanity, or moral
classification, may be said to be OF the
Phlistines
The world never owned such opulence
of womanly character orsnch splendor OF
womanly manners or multttudlnous in
stances OF wiiely, motherly, daughterly
Ssterly devotion, as IL owns to-day |
have not words To express my admiration
for good womanhood. Woman Is not
only mans equal, but In afectlonal and
religious nature, which Is the best part OF
us, she IL 70 per cent. his superior. Yea;
during the last twenty years, through
the Increased opportunity opened for fe.
male education, the women of the conn
try are better educated than the majority
OF men and II they continue TO advance
in mentality at the present ratio, before
10 ~ the majority of men will have dim.
Guilty IN finding IN the opposite sex enough
ignorance to make appropriate cousort
II | am under a dcluslon az to the ahun
dance OF good womnnhood abroad con
sequent upon my surroundings since tht
hour entered this life until now, ! hope
the delusion will last until embark from
this planet. SO, you will understand, IL
say in this course OF sermons something
that seems severe ! am neither cynical
nor disgruntled.
There are In almost every farmhouse
in the country, In almost every home OF
the great town, conscientious women
worshipiul women, self-sacrihclng wo.
men, holy women, innnmerable Mays
sitting at the feet OF Christ; innumeraOle
mothers, helping TO feed Christ In the
person OF his suffering disciples; Il thou
sand capped and specialized Grandmothers
Lois, bending over bibles whose precepts
they have followed from early glrlhood;
and tens of thousands OF Young women
that are dawnlng upon us from school
and seminary, that are going TO bless the
world with good and happy homes, that
shall eclipse all their predecessors, fact
that will be acknowledged by all men ex.
oept those who are struck through with
moral decay from toe To Uranium; aud
more inexcusablc than the Samsonoi the
text is that man who amid all
this Unparalleled munilcence OF
womanhood marries fool. Blu
some OF YOU are abroad suffering from
such disaster, and to halt Others OF you
from going over the same preciplce, cry
out In the words of my text' ais there
never woman among the daughters Of
thy brethren, or among all my people,
that thou goest to take a wife OF the I'M
ciroumcised PhilistmesYn
There are thousands Of American pull.
pits, among them this pulpit, guilty in
the fact that ON some OF the subjects OF
which men and women need practical ad
vice they have been silent or teaching
them only In forceless circumlocution
about the choice of a lifetime companion,
question In which so much OF time and
all eternity are involved, with almost
universal silence in the church, SO that
there are not ten people in this house
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