The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-02-10

stolen waters are sweet, ana Oreau e6ten
IN secret Is pleasant But no knoweth not
that the dead are there.
In view Of all this charge you to break
up clandestlne correspondence il you are
engaged In II, and have no more clandes.
tine meetings either at the ferry. or on the
street, or at the house Of mutual friends, or
at the corner Of the woods. Do not have
letters come for you to the post flee under
assumed address. Have no correspondence
that makes you uneasy lest some one by
mistake open your letters. Do not employ
terms Of sndearment at the beginning aud
close Of letters, unless you have right &c
use them. That young lady Is on the edge
of danger who dares not allow her mother
to see her letters.
II you have sensible parents take them
into your confidence in all the affairs OF
the heart. They will give you more good
advice in one hour than Won can get from
all the world beside in five years. They
have toiled for you 80 long and PRAYED for
you so much. they have your best interests
at heart. At the same time let parents re-
view their opposition to proposed mari
tai alliance. and see II their opposition is
founded on a genuine wish for the child's
welfare. or on some within or notion OF
prejudice or selfshness. fighting a natural
law and irving TO make NIAGARA run up
ENGLAND. WAS ALWAYS saving wise things.
One day Sir Walter Farquar called on him
in great perturbation. Mr.. Pitt inquired
what WAS the matter. and Sir Walter told
him that his daughter was about
to be married to one not worthy of her
rank. Mr.. Pitt said: "Is the
young man of respectable familvp" "Yes."
"Is he respectable in himself" "ves."
"Has he an estimable characterf" "yes."
| "Whv. then. nv dear Sir Walter. make no
opposition" The advice was taken and
hanpv married life ensued. Let ministers
and officers Of the law decline officiating
at clandestins MARRIAGES. When they are
asked TO date MARRIAGE certificate back,
as we all are asked, let them peremptorilv
decline to say that the ceremony was in
November instead Of January. or decline
to leave the date blank lest others fill out
the record enormously. Let law he
passed in all our States. as it has already
been in some Of our States, making a
license from officers of the law necessary
before we can unite couples. and then make
II necessary to publish beforehand in the
newspapers. as it used to be published in
the New ENGLAND churches, so that II
there be lawful objection 1t may be pre-
sented. not swinging the buoy on the
rocks after the ship has struck and gone to
pieces. And here 1t might be well for me
to take all the romance ont OF an escapa de
by quoting dozen lines of Robert Pollock
the great Scotch poet, where he describes
the crazed victim of one Of these esca
pades:
- Yet had she many days
o. sorrow in the world but never wept
She lived on aims. and carried in her hand
Some withered stalks she gathered in the
spring.
When any asked the cause she smiled ant
said
They we're her sisters and would come ant
watch
Her grave when she was dead She never
smoke
OF her deceiver. father, mother. homo
Or child or heaven, or hell. or God, but still
In lonely places walked, and ever gazed
Uron the withered stalks and talked them
TIL wasted to the shadow of her youth.
With woe too wide to see beyond, she died.
But now turn on this subject an intense
light We have fifteen hundred lights I,
this church. and when by electric touch
thew are kindled In the evening" service 4
is almost startling. But this whole suhjec
Of "Clandestine Marriages and Escapades'
/ put under more intense light than tn at
The headlight Of locomotive is terrible /
you stand near enough to catch the full
glare of II. As 1t sweeps around tn
Horseshoe curve" Of the Alleghenies o
along the edge Of the Sierra Nevadas. HOY
far ahead. and how deep down, and hoV
high up it flashes. and there is instantane
GUS revelation of mountain peak and viii
beats hieing themselves to their cavern.
and cascades thousand feet tall, clingin
in white terror to the precipices! Blu
more intense, more far.reaching, NOR
sudden, switter and more tremendous
Is the headlight of an advancing Judgmeu
Day, under which all the most hidden af
fairs of life shall come to discovery and ar
raignment. l quote an overwhelmin
passage Of Scripture, in which put tn
whole emphasis on the word 'secret:"
God shall bring every work into judgment
with every secret thing, whether 1t be goo
or evil.
What time that will be in which tn
cover shall be lifted from every home an
from every heart The iniquity may nav
been so sly that it escaped all human de
lection, but it will be as well known O
that day as the crimes of Sodom and Go
mcrrah, unless, for Christ's sake, it ha
been forgiven. All the fingers of universe
condemnation will be pointed at It, TIL
archangel of wrath will stand there wit
uplifted thunderbolt ready to strike L
The squeami hness and prudery Of earth
ly society. which hardly Above
some sins to be mentioned on earth, ar
past, and the man who was unclean an
the woman who was impure will, under
light brighter than a thousand noonds
sun, stand with the whole story written o
scalp and forehead and cheeks and hand
and feet; the whole resurrection bod
aflame and dripping with fiery disclosure
ten thousand sepulchral and celestial an
internal voices crying: "Unclean! u
clean Uncleanw
All marital intrigues and all secret II
EQUITIES will be published as though q
the trumpets spoke them and all the ligh
nings capitalized them and all the eartl
quakes rumbled them. o man, recreant
tao maria ra vovvi n uou,or L. 3D. .