The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14
THE DUTIES OF MATRIMONY.
Dr.. Talmage's Fifth Discourse of the
Series on 1.-THE Marriage Ring"
The Duty Of Husband to ife-Responsibili-
ty of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Love Con-
trasted with Post-Nuptial Life.

On Sunday Feb z, the Rev. t. De Witt Tai
image, d. D., preached in the Brooklyn Taber-
uaele the fifth of his sermons on 'The Marriage
Ring" the subject being Duties of Husbands to
Wives" Before the sermon he explained the
kwenty-third chapter of Genesis. concerning
Abraham's admiration for Sarah, her age-the
pnly woman's age mentioned in the Bible
Implying that inquisitiveness on that subject is
IN impertnence. The hymn sung was:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love.
To-day was moving day in the Brooklyn Tab
Rrnacle. Once year the pews are rented, and,
while mary retain their old seat, there are many
changes seen to-day. At the annual rental DIR.
Tucker paid $760 for the first choice of pew,
making his rent come to about 5000. Mr.. Ever
stt paid 1926 for the second choice Of pew, max
ing his rent about 500. The premiums and
rentals were larger this year than ever before,
and the income will be about $31, 900. All the
pews in the galleries. except the four front rows
are free, so that the church is conducted on the
Two plans the free and rented. and no man can
BAY he may not attend because he has not the
means.
The text Of the sermon was:
And Isaac went out to mediate in the field at the
sventide; and he lifted up his eyes and saw and be-
hold, the camels were coming.-Genesis XIV SO.
Following is the sermon in full:
A bridal pageant on the back of dromedaries!
The camel is called the ship of the desert. Its
swinging motion in the distance is suggestive of
vessel rising and falling with the pillows
Though wkward, how imposing these creatures
Rs they move along, whether In ancient or mod
ern times, sometimes carrying 400 or 4,0e0 trav-
elers from Bagdad to Aleppo. or from Bassora
to Damascus. In my text comes caravan. We
notice the noiseless step of the broad foot, the
velocity of motion, the gay eaparIson of sad
die and girth and awning, shetering the riders
from the sun; and the hilarity of the mounted
passengers, and we cry out who are theyP'
Well, Isaac has been praying for wife, ana it's
lime he had one, for he is forty years of age,
and his servant directed by the Lord, has made
selection Of Rebekah, and with her companions
and her maidens she is on her way to her new
home, carrying with her the blessings of all her
friends. Isaac is in the fields. meditating
upon his proposed passage from celibacy to
monogamy. And he sees speck against the
eky, then groups of people. and after awhile he
finds that the grandest earthly blessing that ever
comes to a man is approaching with this gay
caravan The drivers cry ''kneel!r to the cam
els and they kneel, and putting foot on the neck
Of the STOPPING beast the bride dismounts and
greets the mau who was as worthy of her as she
was worthy of him. .'And Isaac went out TO
mediate in the field, at the eventide; and he
kfted up his eyes and saw, and behold the cam
els were coming"
In this fifth discourse on the Marriage Ring"
having spoken of the choice Of lifetime COM
panion, take it for granted 0 man, that your
marriage was divinely arranged, and that the
camels have arrived from the right direction and
at the right time bringing the one that was in
tended for your cons0rt-a Rebekah and not a
Jezebel. proceed to discourse as to how you
ought to treat your wife; and my ambition is to
tell you more plain truth than ever you heard in
In any three-quarters of an hour in all your life
First of ALL charge you realize your respon-
gibility ia having taken her from the custody
and care, and homestead in which she was once
sheltered. What courage you must have bad,
and what confidence in yourself, to say to her
specifically: Il will be to you more than your
father or mother, more than all the friends you
and take me. / feel competent to see you
through life in safety. You are an immortal be-
ing. but am competent to defend you and make
you happy. However bright and comfortable
n home you have now, and though in one of the
rooms is the arm chair in which you rocked, and
ia the.garret is the cradle in which you were
hushed, and the trundle-bed in which you slept,
and In the sitting room are the father and mother
who have got wrinkle-faced and stoop-shoul-
hered and dim eye-sighted ia taking care of YOU
get you will do better to come with me-" / am
amazed that any Of us ever had the submity of
fmpudence to ask such transfer from home
assured to home conjectured and unbuilt.
You would think me a very daring and hazard
ous adventurer if / should go down to one of the
pSers on the North river, and at time when
khere was a great lack OF sea captains, and
should, with no knowledge of navigation pro-
pose to take steamer across to Glasgow or
Havre. and say: 'Ail aboardl Haul in the planks
and swing out" and passing out in the sea,
plunge through darkness and storm. If sue
iced in getting charge Of one, that would be the
chip would never be heard of. But that Is
Che boldness of every man that proffers marriage.
He says: Il will navigate you through the
storms, the cyclones the fogs of a lifetime.
will run clear of rocks and icebergs. have no
experience and have no seaport, but all aboard
Tor the voyage of lifetime! admit that there
nave been Ten thousand shipwrecks on this very
route, but don't hesitate. Tut! Tut! There now!
Don't cry! Brides must not cry at the we'd
ding"
In response to this the woman, by her
acticn, practieally said: 81 have but ono life to
but will depend on the strength of yours.
don't know much of the world, but rely on your
wisdom 1 put my body. my mind my soul.
my time, my eternity, In your keeping. make
yours, though mine is a name that suggests all
fhat was honorable in my father, and all that
was good in my mother, and all that was pleas
mt In my brothers and sisters. start with you
on journey which shall not part except at the
edge OF your grave or mine. Ruth the Moab
ktess, made no more thorough self abnegation
shan make, when take her tremendous words.
the pathos OF which many centuries have not
sooled:
'Entreat not to leave thee or to return from
following after thee for WHITTIER thou goest win go
md where thou lodgest will lodge Thy people shall
be my people. and thy God my God. Where thou
iiest viii die and there viii be buried The Lord
do 50 TO me and more also if aught but death part
thee andme
Sics by side In lifs Side by side in the bury
Ing ground. Side by side in heaven. Before
BOD and man, and with my immortal soul in the
eath. swear eternal fidelity.
Now, my brother, how ought you to treat herg
Unless You are an migrate infinite, you will treat
her well. You win treat her better than any one
IN the universe except your God Her name will
have IN 1t more music than in all that Chopin
pr Bach, or Rhelnberger composed. Her eyes,
swollen with three weeks of night watching
over q child with scarlet fever, will be to you
beautiful as a May morning. After tina lat
rose petal has dropped out of her cheek after the
last feather of the ravens wing has fallen from