Connecticut western news., 1886-02-10
PENALTY OF DIVORCE.
DIR. TALMAGE SAYS TT IS THE FIRST COURSE IN THE MENU OF HELL.
How the World Can be Transformed Into a Turkish Harem-Hnsbands and Wives Who Live In Harmony and Those Again Out of Tune.

The subject of Dr. Talmage's dis course Sunday was Husband and Wife in Harmony and out of Tune" The text was chosen from Amos, iii, B: "Can two walk together except they be agreed 2' .-' ..
 No, Amos, they cannot, began the preacher They will be tripping each other up or pushing each other down. Married life under such circumstances will be the sounding of perpetual warwhoop. A church within a church, 6 republic within republic, world within world, is spelled by four. let ters Home! If things go right there, they go right everywhere; If things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere. The door-sill of the dwelling-house is the foundation of Church and State. A man never gets higher than his own garret or lower than his own cellar In other words, domestic life overarches and underlies all other life.
 The home organization Is most beauti- fully constructed. Eden has gone; the bowers are all broken down; the ani- that morning when they came up to get their names have since shot forth tusk and sting, and growled panther at panther, and mid-air, iron Le.ks plunge til With clo,ted wing and eye less sock-ts the twa,n came rohng down from under the sun in blood and fire. Eien has gone, but there is just one littl' fragment left. It float M down on he river Hiddek out of Pa adi>e. It Is the marriage institution. It does not, as at the beginning. take away from man g rib Now i, is an addition ot ribs. p.1 famed in our Sgy, and influences are abroad trying to turn this ear h l, to Turkish ha- rem or great Salt Lake City. Alas for thls new dispensation of George Sand Attempt has been made to take the marriage institu- tion, which was intended for the happiness and elevation of the race, and make it . mere 6 mmercal enterp ise-an exchange Of houses and lands and equpags>; business partner ship of two stuffed up with the stori. .s of TO- ma,ce and knight-errantry and unfaithfu- n ss and f. f.minine angelhood. The two. Q ter . while, have reused up to find that instead of the paradise hey dreamed Of they have got nothing but mena erie, filled with tigers and wildcats. Eighty thousand divorces m Par's France ever saw It was on he first course in that banquet of hell, and tell you what you well know-,hat wrong notions on the sub ject of Christian marriage are the cause at this day of more moral outrages before God and man than any other cause. My first
 
 home, if 1t be new home, and let Him who was guest at Kethany be in your h"useh old let the Divine blessing dop up your every hope an plan aid expec ati"n. Have on your right hand the engagement ring of the D vine affect on. IL one of you be G ristlan, let that one take Bible and r, ad few verses in the evening time and then kneel down and i commend your>e yes to Jim who set eth the solitary in families. Iwant to tell you thst i the d. str''ying angel pa ses by without touch Sc sIrinkl wi h the blood of the ev rlasting covenant. Why is it that in me famil es they never z t elong we'll and in others they always get along we'll? have watched suc'' | se- and have com. to nc,usinn. In the first instance nothing seemed to 2 70 pleasantly and after while came dsva tat ion. domes ic i d saster or arrangement. Why? They started wrong. In the o,hr case, altlloua there were ha dshlps and trials and me thing. t"at had to be explained, still things i went on pleas mt y unll the very last. Why l They started right. My adv.c to y'u in you hom. 5, to e1e cise to the very last poss billty i of your natu the grace of totbear noe.
 Never bc ashamed to apologiz. when you | have done wrong in 'me.tlc affairs. Lei ths b. .aw of your honseh Id The bes thing ever heard of my grandfather, whom lnever Saw, W this that once having un righteous rebuk.d one of his chlldr n, ht himself having lost his latleI.cr snd, per haps, having teen msi, formed of he ch,ld't donlgs, found out his mistake. and in the eyenng of the same day gather all hii fanny togetler and aid: Now, have on ' exp ation to make and one thing to eay Thomas, this morning l rebu ed lyou vert unfairly. am very Try 10 It. rebuked you in presence of tue whole fam ly ant now l ask Your forgiven ss in their pr stnce. Never be ashamed to apologiz- for domestic tnsccuracy. Do not arry the fire of you temper too nes,r the gunpowder. If the wife be easily fretted by disorder in the house hold, let the husband be careful where ht throws his slppers. II the hust aud cnm' h. me from the store with his patti nee al exhausted, do not let the W fe unLecess Til. CT ss Lis temper; but both stand up for you rghts. and will promise everlasting coll si'n Y UT life will b. bp, nt in making u ., ant marriage will be to y.u an unnlitigated curse If tie husband pend the most Of his night away from home, of choice and not of nsces sit. he Is not he head of the households; ht is oily the cashier. II the wie throw th' cares of the houe hold in the servants lap and then spend five nights of the week at the opera or theatre, sue may clothe her chit rel wllh satns and laces and ribbons that wOnl confound Flench milliner, but they arr orphans. In India they bring children ant throw them to the crocodiles, aud 1t seem very cruel; but tue jaws of New York ane Bro klyn dissipat on, and of other cities, ar swallowing down more little children to-da. than al, the monsters that ever crawled upor the baik- of the Ganges!
 Ihave seen the sorrow of [ goddess mothe on the death of child she had h. glected. l was not so ruch grief she felt from the fao that the child was dead, as the fact that sh had neg ected 1t. She said 'If had onl, watched over and cared for the child, I kno, God would not have taken it" The tear came not; it was dry, blistering tempest
 scorching eimoon of ,he desert. When sh twist her fingers from their sockets; whel she seiz.,d her hair it s, emed as if >he had il wild terror, grasped 8 coiling serpent with he right hand. No tears Comrades of the lit tie one came in and wept over the coffin neighbors came in, and the moms mt they sa' the still face of the child the shower broke No tears for her. God gives tears as the sum mer rain to the parched soul; but in sll tn universe the diiest anI hottest. the mos seorching and consuming thing is mother it is dead. God may ,rgive, tut she wi
 never forgive herself. The memory will sin
 the ey. 8 deeper into tie sockets, and pinc
 the face, and whiten the hair, and eat up tn heart wi vnltures that will not be sati. .ficd forever plungng deeper their iron peaks. Si James Macintosh one of the most eminen and elegant men that ever lived, While stand ing at the very height of his eminencA, sai to great company of scholars: My wifi made me-" The wife ought to be the advit ing partner n every firm She ought 70 be in terested in all the losses and g aims pf shop all
 store. She ought to have 8 right-she has
 right-to know everything. If 8 na an zoe into a business transaction that h. dare nc tell 8 wife o,, y"u may d-penh that he is o
 the way either to bankruptcy or moral lur There may be some things which he does n wish to trouble h wife with; but if he liar
 not tell her, he is on the rod o discomfitu, There are tn usand martyrs of the kitchen It is very annoy,ng. after he vexa,i ms Of tn
 day around the stove or tah.e. or in the nurS cry or parlor, to have ,our husband say, "Yo ' know nothing abOut fir, -uble: ought tb D in the store half an hour" If the husband work covers him with sont Of the furnace C , the odors of ather or -oap factori let nc
 the wifo be easily disgusted at the begrime hands or u,savory aroma. Your galns al ) one. y. UT interests are one, your losses a.
 one: lay hold of the work Of life with bpt hands Four hauds to fight the 8 ties. for ayes to xaich for the dauger four shQuldel