Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-02-11

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married life becluse il is deception, and that b
corroding and damning viea You must
deceive your kindred, you must deeeive society,
you must deosse al but God, and Him you
cannot deceives Deception does not injure
others so much as il Injuries ourselves Mar
riage is too importInt acrisis in ones life TO
be decided by sic ght Of hand or q sort Of
jugglery which says: presto, changel Now
you see her, and now you don't" Better wait
for yers for circumstances to improve Time
may remove all ol stacles. The candidate for
marital preferences may change his habits, or
get into somo trade or business that will sup
port q home, or the inexorable father and
mother may be promoted to celestial citizen
ship. At the right time have the day ap-
pointed Stand a. the end OF the hest room in
the house with joined hands and the minister
Of religion before you to challenge the world
that -if they know of any reason why these
two persons shall not be united they state il
now, or forever hold their peace and then
start out with the good wishes of all the neigh
bors and the halo Of the divine sanction.
When you can go out Of harbor at noon with
all flags flying, do not try to run a blockade al
midnight
In view Of all this chtrge you to break up
slandestine correspondence, il you are engaged
| IN it, and have no more clandestine meetings
| either at the ferry, or on the street. or at the
house OF mutual friends, or at the corner Of
he woods Do not have letters come for yo1
TO the postoficc under an assumed address
! Have no correspondence that makes you un-
easy lest some one by mistake open your let
ters. Do not employ terms of endearment at
the beginning and close of letters unless you
have right to use them. That young lady is
on the edge of danger who dares not allow her
mother to zee her letters.
| If you have sensible parents take them into
| your confidence in all the affairs of the heart
They will give YOU more advice in one hour
than you can get from all the world beside in
five years. They have toiled for you so long
and prayed for you 30 much they have your
best interests at heart AT the same time let
parents review their opposition to proposed
marital alliance, aud see if their opposition is
founded on genuine wish for the child's well
fare or on some whim or notion or prejudice or
selfishness, fighting natural law and trying
to make Niagara run up stream. Mr.. Pitt, the
Prime Minister of England, was always saying
wise things. One day Sir Walter Farouhar
called on him in great perturbation. Mr.. Pitt
inquired what was the matter, and Sir Walter
told him that his daughter was about to be
married to one not worthy of her rank. Mr..
Pitt said: as the young man of respectable
family?" "Yes," as he respectable in
HIMSELF" sYes." HAS he an estimable
character" 3Yes." "Why, then, my dear Sir
Walter, make no opposition" The advice was
taken, and happy married life ensued. Let
ministers and officers of the law decline Off
ciating at clandestne marriages. When they
are asked to date marriage certificate back, as
we all are asked, let them peremptorily decline
to say that the ceremony was in November in
stead Of January, or decline to leave the date
blank lest others fill out the record erroneously
Let law be passed in all our States, as it has
already been in some of the States, making a
license from the officers of the law necessary
before we can unite couples, and then make il
necessary to publish beforehan in the news
papers, as it used to be published in the New
England churches, so that if there be lawful
objection it may be presented, not swinging the
buoy on the rocks after the ship has struck and
gone to pieces. And here it might be well fol
by quoting dozen lines of Robert Pollock, the
great Scotch poet, where he describes the
crazied victim of one of these escapades:
80 Yet had she many days
OF sorrow in the world but never wept,
She lived on aims, and carried in her hand
Some withered stalks she gathered in the spring
When they asked the cause, she smiled and SAID
They were her sisters, and would come and watch
TJarr che
OF her deceiver, father, mother, home,
Or child or heaven, or hell, or God, but still
In lonely places walked, and ever gazed
Upon the withered stalks and talked to them;
Till wasted to the shadow of her youth,
With woe too wide to see beyond, She died.
But now I turn on this subject an intensel
light We have 800 lights in this church
and when by electric touch they are kindled in
the evening service it is almost startling. Bu
this whole subject of @clandestine marriages
and escapades" I put under a more intense
light than that The headlight of locomotive
is terrible if you stand near enough to catch
the full glare of it. AS it sweeps around the
Horseshoe curve" of the Alleghenies, or along
the edge Of the Sierra Nevadas, how far ahead
and how deep down an how high up it flashes
and there is an instantaneous revelation oi
mountain peak and wild beasts hieing them
selves to their caverns, and cascades thou.
sand feet tall clinging in white terror to the
precipices. But more intense, more far-reach.
ing, is the headlight of an advancing judgment
day, under which all the most hidden affairs Of
life shall come to discovery and arraignment
Iquote an overwhelming passage of scripture
in which put the whole emphasis on the word
Secret" @God shall bring every work into
judgment, with every secret thing, whether il
be good or evil"
What time that will be in which the covel
shall be lifted from every home and from
every heart The iniquity may have been &C
sly that it escaped all human detection but il
will be as well known on that day a. the crimes
of Sodom and Gomarrah, unless for Christs
sake it has been forgiven. All the fingers Of
universal condemnation will be pointed at it
The archangel of wrath will stand there with
uplifted thunderbolt ready to strike it The
squeamishness and prudery Of earthly society
which hardly allowed some sins to be men.
toned on earth, are past, and the man who
was unclean and the woman who was impure
WILL under light brighter than Thousand
MONDAY suns, stand with the whole story writ.
ten on scalp and forehead and cheek and hands
and feet; the whole resurrection body afame
and dripping with fiery disclosures ten thous.
and sepulchral and celestial and internal
voices crying: sUnclean! Unclean! Unclean!'
ALI marital intrigues and all secret iniquihes
will be published, as though all the trumpets
spoke them and all the lightnings capitalized
them, and all the earthquakes rumbled them.