Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-07-12
Talmaga on Marriage.

81 have no words sufficiently eloquent
TO set forth my admiration of good wo-
manhood. Good and rruc women were
never so numerous as they are to-day.
The women of this country are better
educated than the men, and if things
90 on in the same ratio it will be diff
cult for the men to find enough ignor-
ance IN the opposite sex to make an ap-
propriate consort. The ladies in the
congregation smiled at this and looked
at one another complacently. IF L am
under delusion in this | hope to con-
tinue in the delusion until | embark
from this planet
There are a vast number of people
who ought not to be married. There
are 100000 more women in England
than men, and about the same number
in this country The moral of such
fact is that thousands of women should
regard it as duty to take measures so
effective that they should be able to
take care of themselves. Another fact
is that there are a very large number of
men who are not fit to be married, and
it is time to say that if woman who
loses her integrity and her honor is not
fit to be married, then it is equally true
that man who is untrue to the best
promptings of his moral nature and is
impure is not fit to be married. am,
therefore, this morning, as a religious
teacher and as one who will have to
give account of his stewardship, about to
give you some advice that should be
adopted when you choose wife.
Martin Farquhar Upper, the poet,
recommended men to pray and seek di-
vine guidance before they chose wife.
He and all people who advised the same
thing were laug hed at when they said
this. Many of those who laughed then
are laughing now on the other side of
the mouth. Some good and wise men
have wrecked their lives by this neglect.
There was John Wesley-as good man
as ever lived-was chained to woman
who did all she could to destroy his in
fluence, and sat in City Road Chapel
making mouths at him while he
preached Then there are women who
are scolds and who look on you like a
March northeaster. Then there are the
opium-eating women-40O, 900 of them
in America to-day-who will have their
drug although it cost them the greatest
treasure of their household. l urge you
to ask divine guidance, because society
is full of artificiality After her dress
maker, her hair adjuster, her jeweler,
and other mysterious agencies have
| transformed woman, how can an I'M
sophisticated man discern the real
meaning of these physiological hero
glyphics? Men are by these means
swindled; they make a bargain for a
sample, and when the goods come to be
delivered they find that they are not
equal to the sample. They marry a
sweet-tempered woman, as they suppose,
and she turns out to be a Jezebel; they
marry woman as meek apparently as
the sainted Mary, and they get Lucre-
zia Borgia when they thought they had
a Martha Washington. May l not,
therefore, ask you to seek divine guild
ance before you choose a wife? for there
is no worse predicament on earth than
to be unequally yoked together.
adam had not a large number to
select wife from, and Judging from the
mistake he made, am glad that he was
limited to Eve or none. If you take the
divine direction you will make no mis-
take. A great deal has been said about
woman being taken from the ribs OF
Adam. But there are twenty-four ribs
and there are twenty-three possibilities
to one that you will get the wrong rib.
John Milton, the poet, who was blind,
was told that his wife was a rose. and
he replied, i am not much of judge
of color; but |. think that it is very likely
so, for feel the thorn Look at Solo.
mon, whose married life was as unhap
py as it was multitudinous, and among
the wise observations of his experience
in this matter is this: "A continual drop
ping on very rainy day and conten
tious woman are alike
IF in this matter you make no mis-
take you will have two heavens, ont
here below and one hereafter; but if you
do make a mistake you have two bells
one here and one hereafter.