Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-11

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her what impression he was making; by
the JOY of GrOtius, whose wife delivered
/ nm from prison under the pretehse OF
having books carried cut lest they be IN
furious TO his health she eendlng out her
husband unobseryed in one OF the book
cases; by the coed fortune Of Roland, IN
Louis tims, whose wife translated and
composed for her husband, while Secre-
tary OF the lnteriOr-talented, heroic,
wonderful Mine. Roland; by the happiness
of many a man who Aas made intelligent
choice OF one capable of being prime
counsellor and companion in brightness
ana IN grsf-pray TO Almighty God,
morning, noon aud night, that ut the
right time and in the right way He will
send you good, honest, loving, sympa-
thetic wife; o., il she is not sent 20 you,
that YOU may ho sent 30 her.
At this point let me warn you not TO
let question Of this Importance be settled
by the celebrated matchmakers, in almost
every community. Depend upon your
own Judgment Diyinely lllumned. These
brokers in matrimony are ever planning
how they can Unite impecunlous inno-
/ cence 90 an heiress. or celibate woman TO
millionaire or marquis, and that IN many
cases MAKES life an unhappiness. How
can any human being, who knows neither
OF the two parties as God knows them,
and who is ignorant of the future, give
such direction as You require at sueh a
crisis. Take the advice OF the earthly
matchmaker instead OF the Divine guid-
ance. and you may some day be led TO use
the words of solomon, whose experience
in home life was as melancholy as it was
multitudinous.
One dav his palace with its great wide
rooms and great wide doors and great
wide hall was too small for him, snd the
/ loud tongue of a woman belaboring him
about some of his neglects, and ne re-
| treated to the hOusetOp 10 get relief from
/ the lngual bOmbardment. And while
/ there he saw poor man on one corner OF
/ the roof with a mattress for his only fur
nlture, and TIE open sky bis only cover
/ ing. And solomon envies him ana cries
out: SIT is better to dwell in the corner
OF the hOusetOp tnan with a braWling
/ woman in a wide house,"
| And one day during the rainy season
/ the water leaked through the roof Of the
] palace and began to drop in a pail or pan
/ set there 10 catch it. And al one side OF
! him all day long the water Went DrUp!
1 Drop Drop! while on the other side
| female compGdiOn quarreling about this
/ and Quarreling about that, the acrlmO-
| niOus and petulaut words falling ON his
! ear in ceaseless pelting-DrOpl Drop!
/ Drop! and ne seized his pen and wrote: !:
| "a continual dropping in very rainy
/ day and a contentious woman are alike. 4"
! II Solomon had been as praverful at the
| beginning Of his life as he was at the
close, how much domestic inielicity he
I would have avoided. But prayer about
this will amount to nothing unless you
pray soon enough. Wait until YOU are
| fascinated aud the equilibrium Of your
soul is disturbed by magnetic and eX-
! qusite presence, and then you will an
sWer your own prayers. and yOu Will mis-
take your own inlatuation for the voice OF
God.
II you have this prayerful spirit you
/ viii surely avoid all female scOters at the
! Christian religion; ami there are quite a
| number of them in all communities. II
must be told that, though the only inlu-
/ enee that keeps woman nom being estt-
/ mated and treated as slaVe-aye, as a
! brute and beast Of burdens Christian
! ity, since where it ia not dominant she is
so treated, yet there are women who Will
| so far forget themselves and forget their
! God, that they will go and hear lect1r-
ers maign Christianity and scOH
at the most sacred things Of the
soul. A good woman, over-persuad-
| ed by her husband, may 60 once to hear
such TRADE against the Christian
religion, not fully knowing what she is
! going 20 hear; but she will not 20 twice.
| A woman, not Christian but a respecter
] Il
| by my husband to 80 and hear an intdel
! lecturer once, but gong home, said 10
! him: My dear husband, ! would not 90
/ again though my declinature should re-
/ suit in our enforcement forever" And
/ the woman was right. II after all that
/ Christ and Christianity have done for
| woman she can go again and again TO
/ hear.such assaults, she is an awful crea-
/ ture and you had better not come near
! fro ffab bc.
/ washed and for three weeks to be soaked
! in carb0lic acid, and for a whole year
fumigatCd before she is ht for decent
society. While il is not demanded that a
/ woman be a Christian before marriage,
/ she must have regard for The Christian
! religion or she is "A bad woman and UNIV
I thy Of being your companion IN a life
/ charged with such stupendOus golemndy
| and yicIesitl0es.
What yOu want, mani ia wife IS
not butterfly Of the sunshine, not gig
| Cling nOnentity, not a painted doll, not a
/ gOssipuing gad-abOut, not q mixture OF
artlfCialities which leave you in doubt as
t0 where the humhug ends and the woman
/ begins, but an earnest eOul-One thar can
/ NOT only laugh when YOU laugh, but weep
when YOU weep. Their VIII De wide. deep
graves in your path Of li'e, and y9u viii
I both want stea. wing when You come 40
4 the verge OF them, / ten yor when your
/ fortune fails, you will want some one 90
/ talk OF treasures in heaven, and not charge
uD0n you with bitter 81 told you ap"
/ As far AZ eau auaiyle Do, sincerity and
/ carnes,nes9 are thc foundation of avn
WORTHY wilehDOd Got that and you get
I an; iall 10 get thar ana you get tuothing
/ but what you Will wish YOU never had got.
Don't make the mistake thai man OF the
text made in letting bis eve settle the
question in which coolest iud dgmenl direc-
Ted by Divine wisdom. are an important.
. He who has no reason for hl, wifely
I choice except pretty iace, rs Ike a man
/ who should buy a farm because oi tne
. dahilas in The front d0lryurd. Beauty is'
n talent ana when God gives it lie in-
tends if as u bnnedic'iou upnn q wOinan's
face. When the good Princess OF Wales
. dsmOunted from the rain train last
summer. and ! SAW her radiant face,
could understand what they told me the
/ dag before Oh tt, when an The great militia
rs hospital wuerU ufr now The wounded
and the elck from ihn Egfptmu ana other
wars, the Princess pissed through, all the
sick were chcarod H beer ellufng. and
those who could DE r0tsei neither by doe
t0r Or nurse from THEN 8tup1E would get
up on their elbows tO look a. her, and wan
/ lud wasted lips prayed an audible prayer.
"aOd bless the frincesBOf Wales Doesn't
i she look boautluW
But how uncertain ia thn tarrying on
\ beauty N human c0untenhncr. ExplD-
| HIOn 0f kerosene lamp iurralt Into HnIrl-