The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-03-09
ON MARRIAGE.
n SERMON ON MATRIMONY AT THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

tte.ar.E
Howl to Choose n Wifc-Wise Men who Made
Mistakes in Selecting Helpmates.
s'The Marriage Ring is the title of a
series of discourses to be preached on
Brooklyn Tabernacle. The first was
delivered Sunday and it's subject was
Elbow to Choose a Wife" In it DIR.
Talmage played changes on the entire
range of the gamut of human emotion,
exciting his congregation to laughter,
that went to the high notes of giggling,
and then went deeper and moved many
of the audience to so sorrowful q Londi-
tion that they found relief only in tears.
The comedy part was the strongest and
had the most numerous illustrations.
Laughter, therefore, was the more prom
!nent feature in the Accomplishments of
the sermon.
The text was selected from Judges,
xiv, Sis there never a woman among
all the daughters of thy brethren or
among all my people that thou goest to
take a wife of the hncircumcised Philis-
tines
''Samson, the giant, is here asking the
consent of his father and mother" said
the Doctor, 'to his marriage with a
young woman whom they deemed unfit
for him. In the text his parents are
: forbidding the bans. They are in effect
, saying to him, Are there no young wo-
men among u own people that you
must ask conjugation with this foreign
firt Are there no lilies among the
sdaughters of Israel whom you could
s.. wear on your heart, that you must be
compelled to wear the Philistinc thistle?
Dc you choose this grabbed apple be-
cause there are no pomegranitcsH These
were just upbraidings because his
parents when speaking of their own
people spoke of n race strikingly char
acterized by female loneliness. The
midnight was yelled in their hair and a
lake of blue was in their eyes, the buoy
ancy and freshness of spring was in
their gait, and this was only typical of
the beauty and the glory of their souls.
B TO WOMAN.
81 have no words sufficiently eloquent
to set forth my admiration of good wo-
manhood. Good and true women were
never SO numerous as they are to-day.
! Women are now sevcnty-tive per cent
better than they ever were. The women
pf this country arc better educated than
he men, and if things go on in the
anne ratio it will be difficult for the
hen to find enough Ignorance in tie op-
Ssitc sex to make an appropriate con
brt." The ladies in the congregation
niled at this and looked at one another
pmplacently. eff I am under a delu-
on in this I hope to continue in this
elusion until I embark from this planet.
here are thousands of American pull
is, and among them this one, that
We avoided q discussion of a great
any practical things, and among these
(ings is the subject I am to discuss i'm
is series of ermon This is the
st time that / have heard of it being
scussed.
"There are a vast number of people
DO ought MOTTO be married.. There
Ee 940, 900 more women in England
han men, and about the same number
j this country. The moral of such q
pct is that thousands of women should
egard it as a duty to take measures so
Effective that they should be able to
Rke care of themselves. Another fact
that there are q very large number of
On who arc not fit to be married, and
is time to say that if a woman who
pses her integrity and her honor is not
t to be married, then is it equally true
hat a man who is untrue to the best
bromptings of his moral nature and is
impure is not fit to be married. I am,
therefore,, this morning, as a religious
eacher and as one who will have to give
n count of his stewardship, about to
five you some advice that should be
ldopted when you choose a wife.
AWFUL EXAMPLES.
"Martin Farquhar Topper, the poet,
recommended men to pray and seek
divine guidance before they chose a
wife. He and all the people who ad-
vised the same thing were laughed at
when they said this. Many Of those
who laughed then are laughing now on
the other side of the mouth. laugh
ter Some good and wise men have
wrecked their lives by this neglect.
Witness the man of this text. Then
there was John Wesley-as good a man
Rs ever lived-was chained to a woman
who did all she could to destroy his in
iuence, and sat in City Roads Chapel
making mouths ct him while he
preached. Then there are women who
re scolds and who lock on you like o
larch NORTHEASTERN. Qaughter.) Then
hen there are the opium eating women
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