Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
SERMON.
,;,=t Of q Series Of Discourses
~ the Marriage Ring"

r;,.zt of a Series of Discourses
~ the Marriage Ring"
IF "A wifc-somc Moi Vho
Ma Right to Marry-Morai and
..;,,1 Bcauty Moro Desirable
the Mere Physical.
Dow. T, Dewitt Talmage has begun
he If sermons on "Thc Marriage
snn the first of which, covering the
~ -, of Husband and Wife," we give
The following was the text:
lo"' never a woman among the daugh-
IS he1u ~. brethren, or among all my peo-
r ,,n aoest to take a wife Of the un.
F tnNt soa Observation-Disclosures, xiv.,3.
ca'sy +he giant, is here asking con.
sans LILY father and mother to marriage
D. u whom they thought unfit for lin.
tn o"r wise in asking their counsel, but not
:. reiecting it. Captivated with her
Sc hohis son wantedto marry a daugh-
NJ one of the hostile families, a deceitful'
%"Sr;tical. whining and saturnine crea-
V' luho afterward made for him a world
re- .,Is till she quit him forever. In my
ho ~" narents forbade the banns,
4 n1 saying: When there are
ac'. honest and beautiful maidens
" "A,,r own country, are you SO
,,t to for a lifetime partner that
ara nnnose conjugality with this for
ART, Is there such a dearth of ILL
IN our Israelitish gardens that you
20 uaar on your heart a Philistine
Pus t,,s Dovou take a crab-apple because
pAsne .ra no pome granates? rs there
y . woman among the daughters of
~, hrsthren, or among all my people,
:. ,,o, ooest to take a wife Of the IN
!",,mcised Philistines:'"
rs,usoless was he for such a choice in a
- and amid a race celebrated for female
illness and moral worth, a land and a
w. of which elf-denying Abigail, and
'.o;s Deborah, and dazzling Vashti, and
inns Esther, and glorious Ruth, and Mary
~" hurged to her heart the blessed Lord,
avn onlv magnificent specimens. The
,;dnisht folded in their hair, the lakes Of
nni1 beauty in their eyes, the graceful
as Of spring morning in their posture
Nd Gait, we're only typical of the greater
Infancy and glory of their soul. Like.
r;so oxcu,eless is a man in our time who
make. lifelong alliance with any n who,
(acause of her disposition, or hercdity, or
ohits. or intellectual ycc;t3'. or moral
,y;stifcatiop. may be said to be one of the
Fhilistines.
The world never owned s,ch opulence of
vomanly character or suca ''lendu" It
rom,nly manners or multitudinous in
stances of wifely, motherly, daughterly,
sisterly devotion as it owns to-day. /
have not words to express my admiration
for good womanhood. Woman is not only
mans equal, but in affectional and re-
bjpious nature, which is the best part of us,
She is seventy-ive per cent. his superior.
Yea, during thelast twenty years, through
The increased opportunity opened for female
education, the women Of the country are
better educated than the majority of the
men: and if they continue to advance in
mentality at the present ratio, before long
he majority of men viii find difiulty in
binding in the opposite sex enough ignor-
ance to make appropriate consort. II
I'm under a delusion as to the abundance
bf good womanhood abroad, consequent
pom my s]urrounings since the hour l en-
erred this work until now, l hope the delu-
ion will last until l embark from this
Janet. So you will understand, if | say
h this course OF sermon something that
eems severe, | am neither cynical nor dis
kruntled.
There are thousands of American pull.
pits, among them this pulpit, guilty in the
[act that on some of the subjects IN which
men and women need practical advice
Fhey nave been silent, or teaching them
only in ~forceless circumlocution. About
the choice Of a lifetime companion, a
question in which so much of time and all
pr eternity are involved, what universal
silence IN the Church, so that there are not
en people in this house who have ever
heard a discourse of this theme; and the
lrst one have ever heard is the one I am
preaching. We leave to the fippant move
VI ene spectacular play, or the jingle of q
1osserel rhyme, that which ought to bur
len the most tremendous sermon a minis
fer ever breaches, from the day when he
axes ordination to the day when in judg'
neh' he meets bis God. And so, in thi!
course OF sermons, l am going to hitch uI
ny best team to the whitn etree, and put
lie coulter of the pillow clear up to thu
'ealn, and go straight on from fence tt
enee' however many nests of moles anG
pupel''s may be ripped up by the furrow
0Nu however many alarmed people may
cry "Whoaw
ina' marriage is the destination Of tn
uUiA0h Is a mistake that l want to correc
Oeiofe 80 further. There are multitude.
"no never will marry, and still create
nNi'l'udes who are not fit to marry. Ii
oiea' britain today there are 94S, 900 NOR
"oiheh than men, and that, l understand
ABOUT the ratio in America. By mathe
H""eal and ineNorable law, you see, mil
.oAS OF women will never marry. Th
mpp,y Tor matrimony greater than the de
na''u The first lesson of which is that ev
- woman ought to prepare to take car
herself If need be. Then there are thou
ot men who have no right to marry
"use they have become so corrupt o
ac'ef that their offer of marriage is a
70 any good woman Society will
Lnl 70 De toned up and corrected on thi
ao1eet' SO thai it shall realize that if
E h"nah who has sacrificed her honor is III
ILL.,. LOT marriage, so is any man who ha
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