St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-25
Dr.. Talmadgs breaches to His Brooklyn
Congregation Upon Clandestine Mar
riagss And Escapades.
The Modern Novel Charged With RespOn-
sibiiity for Many OF These nl-As-
sorted Unions.
Mr. Beecher Says the End of the
Churchlis TO Represent Christ
To the World.
The Religion of Humanity a Pocket
in the Every Day Clothes of the
True Church.
DIR. TaImage,s Sermon.
Special TO the Globe.

Ialmage's sermon was Clandestine Mar
riages and Escapades and the text, Prov
erbs TX, II and rs: Stolen waters are
sweet, and bread taken in secret is pleas
ant But he knOweth not that the dead are
there" The preacher said: The garden of
Eden was great orchard of bearing
trees. bushels and bushels of round. ripe,
glorious fruit, but the hOrticuIturist and his
wife having it in charge hankered for one
| special tree simply because il was forbidden.
| starting bad streak in human nature. so
that children will now sometimes
do something simply because they
are forbidden 10 do il. This kink in the
human race Is not easily unSnarled. Tell a
company that they may look into any
twenty ROOMS of large house except one
and their chief desire is To see that one
though all the others were picture galleries
and that garnet. If there were i'm a re-
glon OF mineral springs twenty fountains
Dut the proprietor had fenced i'm one well
against the public. the one fenced in would
oe the chief temptation To the visitors. and
they would rather taste OF that than of the
other nineteen. Solomon recognized this
principle I'M the text, and also the disaster
that follows forbidden conduct. when he
NN-a- -f'ANA NdttiS cit sweet, anu bread
eaten in secret is pleasant. But he know
eth not that the dead are there"
THE MODERN NOVEL.
Is responsible for many abscondings. Do
YOU thInk that young women would sit up
haii hlght reading novels i'm which the
nero and heroine get acquainted i'm the us
ual way and carry on their increased friend
Illness until. with the consent of parents
the day of marriage is appointed. and amid
the surrounding group of kindred the vows
are taken? Oh, no, There must be flight
and pursuit and narrow escape and drawn
dagger. all ending in sunshine and parental
forgiveness and bliss unalloyed and gor-
geOus- In many of the cases of escapade
the ldea was implanted in the hot brain of
the woman by cheap novel. 10
cents worth OF Unadulterated perdition.
these eVaslOns OF the ordinary modes of
marriage are to be deplored for the reason
mat nearly all of them are proposed by bad
men, II the man behave well he has
character 10 which he can refer and he can
say; IF you want TO inquire about me there
Is list OF names OF people i'm the town or
neighOorhOOd where l live" No: the
heroes OF eScapades are nearly all either
biganlsts or lbertines or drUnkards. or de-
IraudeTS, or first-claSS scOundrels of some
sort Ihey nave no character To lose.
Ihey may be dressed IN the height of fash
ION, may De cologned and pOmatumed and
padded and ddiamOnd-ringed and flambovant
cravated until they bewitcb the eve and
intOXieate the OlfactOries, but they are
dOuble-distilled extracts of villainv. moral
dirt and blasphemy. Beware of them.
Stolen waters are sweet. and bread eaten
IN secret is pleasant But he knoweth not
that the dead are there
FUGITIVE MARRIAGE
is to be deplOred because it almost alwavs
implies wOmaD's descent from higher So
cial plane TO lower. If the man was not
OF higher plane, or the marriage on an
equality, there would be no objections and
hence no inducement to candeStinity. In
almost all cases it means the lowering of
womanhoOd. Observe this law: A man
marrying woman beneath him i'm society.
may raise her to any eminence that he him
self may reach; but if 4 woman marry n
man beneath her in society, she ALWAYS goes
down TO his level. That is a law inexorable
and there are no exceptions. Is any woman
so nigh up that she can afford 10 plot for her
own debasement. There is not a state i'm the
American union that has not for the last
twenty years furnished an instance of the
sudden departure of some intelligent woman
from an atfluent home to spend her life
with some one who can make So a dav.
provided he keeps very busy. Well. many
man has lived on s. a day and been
happy, but he undertakes a big contract
when with So day he attempts to support
some one who has lived in home that cost
$50, 600 per annum. This has been about
the history of most of such conjunctions of
simplicity and extravaganza, the marriage
of OK and eagle. The first year they get ON
tOlerably well, for it is odd and romantic
and assisted by the applause of people who
admire Outlawry. The second year the
couple settle down into complete
DISLIKE OF EACH OTHER.
The third year they separate and seek for
divorce, or, as is more probable, the man
becomes drunkard and the woman black
ened waif of the street. ''StOlen waters
are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is
pleasant. But he knOweth not that the
dead are there" These truant marriages
are also to be deplOred, because i'm most in
stances they are executed in defiance of
parental wisdom and kindness. Most
parents are anxious for the best welfare of
a child. If they make vehement and deter
mined opposition it is largely because it is
q match unfit to be mBde. and they can see
for their daughter nothing but wretched-
ness in that direction. They have keener
and wiser appreciation. for instance, of the
certain domestic demolition that comes
from alcoholism in a young man. They
realize what an idiot a woman is who mar
ries a man who has not brains or industry
enough to earn livelihood for family.
No bureau of statistics can tell us the num-
Der of women. who, after marriage, have to
support themselves and their husbands. If
lRtruF I'D - -
full thing TO see wife uncOmDlainingly, by
needle or pen. or yard stick, or washing
machine, support the home. But these
great, lazy masculine lOuts that stand
around with hands in their pockets. allow
ing the wife with her weak arm to fight the
BATTLE OF BREAD,
need to be regurgitated from society. There
are innumeTable instances i'm these cities.
where the wife pays the rent, and meets
all the family expenses and furnishes the
tobacco and beer for the lord of the house
hold. No wonder parents put on all the
brakes to stop such a train of disaster.
They have too often seen the gold ring put
on the finger at the altar, turning out to be
the iron link of chain of domestic servi-
tude. What a farce it is for a man who
cannot support himself and not worth
cent in the world, to take ring which he
purchased by money stolen from his grand
mothers cupboard and put it on the finger
of the bride, saying: with this ring
thee wed and with all my worldly goods
thee endow." 1t is amazing to see how
some women will marry men knowing
nothing about them. No merchant or mer-
chantess would sell 500 worth of goods on
credit without knowing whether the Gus
toner was worthy of being trusted. No
man or woman would buy house with en-
cumbrances of mortgages and liens and
judgments against it uncanceled, and yet