Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-18

rush out OF the single stnte into another,
unless you are sure Of hetterment.
Deliberate aud pray. Pray and de-
liberate. As showed you In my former
sermon, y man ought TO supplicate divine
guidance In such crisis; how much more
Important that YOU solicit I'll 1t is easier
for man 20 find ON appropriate wife than
for woman 20 find a good husband.
This Is matter OF arithmetic, as |
showed In former discourse. Statistics
show that in Massachusetts, and New
York states, women have a majority of
hundreds of thousands. Why this is, we
leave others TO surmise IL would seem
that woman is favorite with the Lord,
and that therefore he has made more of
that kind. From the order OF the crea-
ton in Paradise, IL Is evident that woman
Is an improved edition Of man. But
whatever be the reason for IL, the tact IL
certain, that she who selects a husband
has smaller number OF people TO select
from than he who selects wife. There
fore woman ought 10 be especially care
! full in her choice Of lifetime companions
ship. She cannot afford 20 make Il mistake.
II man err in his selection, he can spend
his evenings at the club, and dull his SEN
slbillties by tobacco smoke, but woman
has no club-room for refuge, and would
find Il difficult to habituate herself 10
cigars. II woman make bad job Of
marital selection, the probability Is that
nothing but a funeral can relieve IL. Di-
vorce cases In court may interest the pub
lie, but the love letters Of n married
couple are poor reading except Tor those
who write them. Pray God that you be
delivered from irrevocable mistakes!
Avoid Alliance with a despiser Of the
Christian religion, whatever else he may
have or may not have. do not say he
must needs be religious man, for Paul
says the unbelieving husband Is sanctitied
by the wife; but marriage with man
who hates the Christian religion will in
sure you lie Of wretchedness. He win
caricature your habit OF kneellng in
prayer. lie will speak depreclatingly OF
Christ. He will wound all the most sacred
feelings Of your soul He will put your
home under the anathema of the Lord
God Almighty. In addition TO the anguish
with which he will MI your life, there Is
great danger that he will despoil your
hope of heaven, and make your marriage
relation an infinite and eternal disaster.
II you have made such engagement, your
first duty is TO break II. My word may
come Just In time to save your soul.
lgO uOb AIlbC III liihlllhht
with man of bad habits, in the idea of
reforming him. II now, under the re-
straint OF your present acquaintance, he
will not give up his bad habits, after he
has won the prize you cannot expect him
to do so. You might as well plant vio-
let in the face Of northeast storm, with
the idea of appeasing 1t. You might as
well run u schooner alongside of a
burning ship, with the idea OF
saving the ship. The consequence
will be, schooner and ship Will be
destroyed together. The almshouse
could tell story of hundred women
who married men to reform them. II by
twenty-five years OF age man has been
grappled by intoXicants he Is under such
Roadway that your attempt TO stop him
would be very much like running up the
track with wheelbarrow to stop n Hud-
son river express train. What you call
an inebriate nowadays is not a victim of
wine or whisky, but TO logwooo and
stryChnine and nuX vomica. All these
poisons have kindled their fires in his
tongue and brain, and all the tears of a
wife weeping cannot eXtnguish the
flames. Instead OF marrying man to
reform him, let him reform first and then
give him time TO see whether the reform
Is TO be permanent. Let him understand
that If he cannot do without his bad
habits for two years he must do without
you forever.
AyoidInion with one supremacy selfish
or so wound up In his occupation that he
has no room for another. You occa-
sionally find man who spreads himself
so widely over the path of life that there
Is no room for anyone To walk beside him.
He is not the one blade OF scissors in
complete without the other blade, but he
is chisel made to cut his way through
life alone, or file full of roughness,
made TO he drawn across society without
any affinity for other files. His DISPOSE
tion Is a lifelong protest against marriage.
Others are so married to their occupation
or profession that the taking of any other
bride is u case OF blgamy. There are
men as severely tied to their literary work
as was Chatterton, whose essay was not
printed because OF the death OF the lord
mayor. Chatterton made out the follow
ing account; "Lost, by the lord mayors
death, in this essay, one pound, eleven
shillings and siXpence. Gained in elegies
and essays five pounds and five shiI-
lings." Then he put what he had
gained by the lord mayors death
opposite TO what he had lost, and wrote
under IL: "And glad he is dead by f3
lSs. Cd" When a man is as hopelessly
literary as that he ought to be n perpetual
celibate; his library, his laboratory, his
books are all the companlonship needed,
Indeed some OF tbs mightiest men this
world ever saw have not patronized mat
rimony Cowper, Pope, Newton, Swift,
Locke, Walpolc, Gibbon, Hume, Arbuth- !
not were single. Some of these marriage
would have helped, The right kind Of a
wife would have cured .Cowper's gloom,
and given TO Newton more practicability
and been o relief to Locke's overtasked
brain. A Christian wife might have con-
yerted Hume aud Glbbon to u belief in
But Dean Swift did not
deserve u wife, from the way In which he
broke the heart of Jane Warng first and
Esther Johnson atterward, and last OF all
"Nanessa." The great wit Of the day, |
he was outwitted by his own cruelues.
Amid so many possIbillt es OF fatal mis- |
take, am not right in urging you To seek |
the unerring wisdom OF God, and before
you are infatuatedy Because most ma :