The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-24
women from appreciasing the glory of true wo-

! was reading Of bridal reception. The
young man had brought home the choice Of his
heart in her elaborate and exquisite apparel.
AS she stood in the gay drawingroo and amid
the gay group. the young mans eyes filed with
tears of Joy as be thought that she was his.
Years passed by and they stood at the Same
parlor on another festal occasion. She wore the
same dress, for business had not opened as
brightly to the young husband as he expected.
and he had never been able to purchase for her
another dress. Her face was not as bright and
smooth as it had been years before, and q care
worn look had made its signature on her counte-
nance. AS the husband looked at her he saw
the difference between this occasion and the
former, and he went over where she sat and
said s'You remember the time when we were
here before. You have the same dress on. Cir
cumstances have somewhat changed, but you
look to me far more beautiful than You did then"
There is such thing as conjugal fidelity, and
many of you know it in your own homes
But after all the good advice we may give
you, we come back to the golden pillar from
which we started, the tremendous truth that no
one but God can guide you in safety about this
matter, that may decide you in happiness for
two worlds, this and the next So, my sister, l
put your case where Naomi put that OF Ruth
and Orpah. when she said: 1.-THE Lord grant
you that ye may find rest each of you in the
house of her husband"
I imagine the hour for which you pledged
your truth has arrived There is much merry
an undertone of sadness in all the house. Your
choice may have been the gladdest and the best.
and the Joy of the whole round of relatives but
when young eaglet is about 20 leave the old nest
and is preparing to put out into sunshine ana
storm for ITSELF it feels it's wings tremble some
what. So she has good cry before leaving home,
and at the marriage father and mother always
cry, or feel like it. If you think it is easy to
give up daughter in marriage, though it be
with brightest prospects, you will think dlffer-
emily when the day comes. To have all along
watched her from infancy to girlhood and from
girlhood to womanhood studious of her welfare,
her slightest illness an anxiety and her presence
in your home an ever increasing joy, and then
have her go away 70 some other home-aye, All
the redolence of orange blossoms, and all the
chime of marriage bells. and all the rolling Of
wedding march in full dlapason and all the hi
larious congratulations of your friends cannot
make you forget that you are suffering loss IT.
reparable But You know it is all right, and you
have remembrance of an EN- barkation just like
it twenty five or thirty years ago, in which you
were one of the parties, and, suppressing as far
as possible your sadness you say. 'Good-by
/ hope that you, the departing daughter, will
not forget to write often home; for whatever be-
tide you, the old folks will never lose their in
terest in your welfare Make visits to them,
also, as often and stay as long as you can. for
there will be changes at the old place after
awhile. Every time you 60 you will ind more
gray hairs on fathers head, and more wrinkles
Ou uOCu0rS DrOW, anu dItor aWLllo you Will ho
tice that the elastic step has become decrepi.
tude And some day one of the two pillars Of
your early home will fall, and after awhile the
other pillar of that home will fall and it will
be comfort to yourself if, when they are
gone. you can feel that while you are faithful
in your new home. you never forget your old
home, and the first friends you ever had, and
those to whom you are more indebted than you
ever can be to any one else, except to God
mean your father and mother. Alexander rope
put it in effective rhymth, when he said:
me, let the tender Office long engage
To rock the cradle of reposing age;
With lenient arts extend mothers breath,
Make languor smile and smooth the bed of death;
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,
And keep awhile parent from the sky"
And now I commend all this precious and
splendid young womanhood before me to-day to
the God ''who setteth the solitary in families"