The Brookhaven leader., 1886-02-04

| Divorce cases In court may interest the
| public, but the love letters of a married
couple are poor reading except for those
who write them. Pray that you be de-
livered from irrevocable mistake.
| Avoid alliance with despiser Of the
| Christian religion. whatever else he may
have or may not have. do not saw he
must needs be "a religious man, for Paul
says the unbelieving husband is sanctihe1
by the wife; but marriage with a man who
hates the Christian religion will insure
! you a lie of wretchedussS. He will Carl
cature your habit of kneeling in prayer.
He will speak depreciatinSly of Christ. He
| will wound all the m DSt sacred feelings OF
Your soul. He will put your home under
the anathema of the Lord God Almighty.
In addition to the an suish with which he
| will fill your life, there is great danger
that he will despoil your hope of Heaven,
! and make your marriage relation an inf
mite and eternal disaster. Ii you have
made such an engagement. your first duty
is to break it. Ny word may come just in
| time to save your soul.
Further, do not unite in marriage with =
man OF bad habits, in III. idea of reform.
ing him. If now, under the restraint OF
y
give up his bad habits, at,er ha ms won
the prize you can no! expect him to do SO.
You isht as we'll plant violet in the
face of northeast storm, with the idea of
| appeasinE it. You hi III. as we'll run a
schooner alongside of burning ship, with
the idea of saving Tie ship. The conSe-
quence will be, schooner and ship viii he
destroyed together. The alm>-houss cuGld
tell the story OF hundred women who
married meu to reform them. Ii by
/ twenty five years of a % man has been
! grapple1 by intoXicautS, he is an Ter such
Roadway that your attempt to stop him
would be very m1rI like rum
ming up tho track with wheelbarr0w
to stop Hudson River express train.
! What YOU call &u inabria.e nowadays is
not victim t. VIM OF WHISKY. but 70 log
| wood ana Strychuin" and HJN yomica. All
these p0isonS have kiudled their fires in his
tongue anl brain, aui al the tears OF a
| wife weeping can 10. eXtiE -ui.h the flames.
| Instead of MARY .ng a man to reform him
let him reform first and FGaI i've him time
to see Wheeler III reio:m Is to b. perma-
nent. Let him uud'"> aut thaC If b. can
not do without his tad habits for two
years he must do vi;hou. voR forever.
Avoid unipn with oAs sap; IN ~ selfish
or so wound UP in his occupation that he
mas no room l'f an ''a.f' on 2'S"S'o"",iE
, find man VINO spreads himself so widely
! over me pam Oh M 'hHl 'ner' i no room
lo' any on 70 wa" '5'' ~ u''"' n - u
the one bla o. q scissor, iuronulate with
| out the other blade, i.Ut ne is chisel made
20 ca. us way '"' 81 ~ "'o''S' - " ~
iu'i u iou '""'H>' ma tn - 10 III i " u d"
so''s'' WIN '"' "'iN " ..'''S ''i ''"'' ~
MS u''I''S''l'H - " i'''''"S - 1880 =
! nai''' - ''"tis Al - 'iia' ,'' 70 ''i''i
Occupation u pa oieN'''" ny TIE ''N.i VI
any ''''e' - IL - d cas- - LAM, H''0
az M" - Se' I'0'H ''''i - "a -
WORN az "'S o"''''Si'o' " "Das s7S"f ""'
Ho' it'lsTI "eS5' ~ Vi - n7''n ~ 'u'
i'o'u NAY o. N""t'e'' -" III ~ 'us cue i'.
l'"lh,' account Lo9l ~ 'H' '''' y 'h'S %
oealh III TINS tS:"E' - us 90. u''h1u /"
eif2l'S AM essays - -. lheh ne
put "ha5 he mai camel ny the
LORD Mayors @eA'h opposite 70 what
Ne hah I'''' am "i2'e nhhsf II.
AND glad h. IS dan by - Us I'd
heh q man Is As hopeIesSIN literary as
that' lie ought 10 pa pefpatn2t cehnats;
ms library, ms laboratory, ms boo%S are
all the com"anoAohI? needed. lndeed,
some Of the migILla5t III II this world ever
saw have not patroaize1 metrim my.
CoWPer, Pope, Newton. SW!tt, LocHe,
WaipoIe, Glbbon, Hume, Arbuthnpt were
single. Some OF these marriage would
have helped. The right kind OF a wife
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