The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-08
CHOOSING a w,ee.
A California Ciersyynan's Opinion
What Constitutes Married Bliss.


A California CIersyman's Opinion Of
What Constitutes Married Bliss.
Rev. T. X. Noble of Plymouth Con-
gregational Church, San Francisco, in .
recent sermon on this subject. held that
the pulpit would be recreant to the duties
of its sacred calling did il not raise its
voice to stay the flood of misery sweep
ing over the land by reason of the thou
sands of unnatural, hasty. ill-advised
and ill-assorted marriages entered into
nowadays The young need to be adj
vised. For . young man contemplating
marriage it is the most transcendental
Importance that he make the right
choice, for thence will come all his fu-
| ture good or evil. Samson passed by
the women of his own people and took
to wife woman of the Philistines. She
was faithless, goddess woman, and
left him to become the companion of his
friend. This has been history repeat
ed in all ages. Men haye taken to
themselves as wives vicious women, who
have been as rottenness in the bones OF
their husbands, or odious, foolish,
brawling, contentious women. They
often choose. too, q fair woman, but
without discretion, who is a jewel of gold
in a swine's snout. The companiOnship
of a woman whose heart is snare is
more bitter than death. Job, because
of the continued frctting of his wife,
cursed the day of his birth. In every
age men, however gifted. have often
wrecked their happiness by an unfor-
tunate choice. Xantippe worried Socra-
ties, and Macbeth was pushed on to muir
der. John Milton felt the thorns of the
rose every day, and the wife of John
Wesley made faces at him while he
preached. Bulwer, the novelist. married
a woman whose companionship he
found so uncomfortable that he built her
a home in London for herself and the
twelve little dogs she chose for her pets.
I'm matter of such moment as the
choice of wife," said the speaker, 'it
will be we'll for you not TO trust to your.
self alone, but seek aid from above. :"
Pope, the poet, said wife is the pecu-
liar gift of heaven. and Shakespeare
said God is the best maker of all mar
riages. Men are apt to be deceived in
this matter, because there is so much
artificiality in sight. The milliner. the
dressmaker, the jeweler, the hair ad-
ulster and cosmetics to combine to con-
ceal truth, how is it possible for poor.
unsophisticated man to discern the real
from the false? Make use of the eye,
the brain. the senses, as keen as you
can, and then look above. You do not
want as the priestess of your household
gay butterfly of society. whose heart
is III the world and not in her home.
Nor do you want painted doll fair OF
form and feature-a simpering, gig
Cling nonentity, whose only charm is
her so-called vivacity. How weary, how
sick, how tired you will grow of such q
one! Be careful and not take the ideal
of artificial society, the heroine of a
novel, but take the woman the Bible
proclaims as the true ideal of true
woman. The heart of her husband doth
safely trust in her. She will do him
good and not evil all the days of her
life. She stretcheth out her hand to
the poor. Favor is deceitful and beauty
vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord
shall be praised" The speaker thank
ed God that there are more such women
in the world to-day than ever before in
its history. OF such q wife it is said:
'.Her children arise up and call her
blessed; her husband, also, and he
praiseth her. "-Chicdgo Tribune.