St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-11
Dr.. Talmage breaches an Eloquent Sermon
Upon the Selection of OOmpan-
ion for Life.
The Eternal Beauty of Faithful Wife
A Pathetic Word Picture Of Separa-
tion at Death.
Mr.. Beecher Gives the Word Hatred
two Meanings, Malign Feeling
and Relative Valuation,
And Says Half the Time the Bible is
Read By Folks That Haven't
Common sense.
DR.. ralmage.. Sermon.

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Witt Talmage preached this morning in the
Brooklyn tabernacle the first of his series
of sermons ON The Marriage Ring. the sub
ieet being The Choice of Wife. DR.. Tai
mage said: Samson, the giant asked con-
sent of his father and mother to marriage
with one whom they thought unit for him.
He was wise in asking their counsel, but
not wise in rejecting it. Captiyated with
her looks, the big son wanted To marry 4
daughter of one of the hostile families. a
deceltful, hypOcritieaL, whining and sat
urnine creature, who afterward made for
him world of trouble till she quit him for
ever. His parents forbade the banns, prae-
tically saying:
When there are so many honest and beauti-
ful maidens OF your own country, are you so
hard put 10 for u lifetime partner that you
propose conjugality with this foreign fiirt2
Is there such dearth OF lilies in our Israel
itish gardens that you must wear on your
heart Philistine thistle? Do YOU take a
erabapple because there are no Opomcranates?
''ls there never "a woman among the daugh-
tiers Of thy brethren, or among all my people
that thou gOest TO take wife of the uncir-
cumcised Philistines?"
EXcuseless was he for such a choice in a
land and amid race celebrated for female
loneliness and moral worth, a land and a
heroic Deborah, and dazzling Vashti. and
pious Esther. and glorious Ruth. and Mary.
who hugged to heart the blessed Lord, were
only
MAGNIFICENT SPECIMENS.
The midnight folded in their hair, the
lakes of liquid beauty in their eye the
gracefulness of spring morning in their
posture and gait. were only typical of the
greater brilliance and glory of their soul.
Likewise eXcuseless is any man in our time
who makes lifelong alliance with any one
who, because of her disposition. or heredity
or habits, )r intellectual, vanity or moral
classification may be SAID 10 be of the Philis-
tines. The world never owned such opulence
of wOmanly character or such splendOr OF
wOmanly manners or multtudinOus in
stances Of wifely, mOtherly, daughterly,
siSterly devotion as 1t owns to-day have
not words to express my admiration for
good wOmanhoOd. Woman is not only
mans equal, but in affectional and religious
nature, which Is the best part of us, she is
75 per cent. his superior. Yea: during the
last twenty years, through the increased op-
pOrtunity for female education. the women
OF the country are better educated than the
majority of men; and If they continue to
advance in mentality at the present ratio
before long the majority of men will have
difficulty in finding, in the opposite SEX
enough Ignorance TO make appropriate con-
sort. III L am under a deluSiOn as to the
abundance of good wOmanhOOd abroad,
consequent upon my surroundings since
the hour entered this life until now, l
hope the
DELUSIoN WILL LAST
until embark from this planet. SO you
Will understand. if | say in this course of
sermons something that seems severe, 1 am
neither cynical nor diSgruntled. What you
want, o mani in a wife, is not q butterfly
of the sunshine, not a giggling nOnentity,
not painted doll. not gOssiping CAD
about, not mixture of artificialities which
leave you in doubt as to where the humbug
ends and the woman begins, but an earnest
soul, one that can not only laugh when you
laugh, but weep when you weep. There
will be wide, deep graves in your path of
life, and you will both want steadying
when you come to the verge of them, tell
you! When your fortune fails you will
want some one TO talk of treasures in
heaven, and not charge upon you with a
bitter 81 told YOU So" AS far as l can
analyZe il, sincerity and earnestness are the
foundation of all worthy wifehOOd. Get
that and you get all. Fail to get that and
you get nothing but what you will wish you
never had got Don't make the mistake
that man of the text made in letting his eve
settle the question in which coolest judg-
ment directed by divine wisdom are all inn
portant. He who has no reason for his
wifely choice except pretty face, is like a
man who should buy farm because of the
dahlias in the front dooryard. Beauty is a
talent, and when God gives it He intends it
as benedictiOn upon a wOman's face.
When the good
PRINCESS OF WALES
dismOunted from the railtrain last summer,
and l saw her radiant face, could under
stand what they told me the day before
that. when at the great military hospital
where are now the wounded and the sick
from the Egyptian and other wars, the
princess passed through. all the sick were
cheered at her coming, and those who
could be reused neither by doctor or nurse
from their stupOr. would get up on their
elbows to look at her, and wan and wasted
lips prayed an audible prayer: ''GOd bless
the princess of Wales! Doesn't she look
beautiful?n But how uncertain is the
tarrying of beauty in human cOuntenance.
Explosion of kerosene lamp turns it into
scarifcatiOn, and ScOundrel with one dash
of vitriol may dispel it, or Time will drive
his chariot wheels across that bright face,
cutting it up in deep ruts and gullies. But
there is an eternal beauty on the face of
some women whom a rough and ungallant
world may eriticiSe as homely, and though
their features may contradict all the laws
of Lavater on physiOgnOmy, yet they have
graces of soul that will keep them attract
i've for time and glorious through all eter-
nifty. There are two or three circumstances
in which the plaineSt wife is a queen of
or profile. By financial panic or betrayal
of business parner. the man goes down,
and returning to his home that evening he
says:
II AN RUINED;
am in disgrace forever; care not whether
live or die" 1t is an agitated story he is
telling in the household that winter night.
He says: THE furniture must go, the
house must go, the social position must
GO" and from being sought for obseqiously
they must be cold-shouldered everywhere.
After he ceases talking and the wife has
heard ali in silence, she says: SIS that all?
Why, you had nothing when 1 married you.
and you have only come back to where YOU
started. If you think that my happiness
and that of the children depend on these
trappings, you do not know me though we
have lived together thirty years. God is
not dead, and the National Bank of Heaven
has not suspended payment and if you
don't mind, don't care cent. What little
we need of food and raiment the rest of our
lives we can get. and L don't propose to sit
down and NOPE and groan. Mary, hand
me that darning needle. And, John, light
one of the other gas burners. And, Jimmy,
open the register tor little more heat
Fanny, fetch your fathers slippers. de-
clarel have forgotten TO set the rising for
for those cakes And while she is busy at
it he hears her humming NewtOD's old