The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

cages and liens, and judgments asainst h
uncanceled; and YET there b mot IN hour
Of the day or night for the last TEN years
there have not been women. by hasty mar
rage, intrusting their earthly happiness to
men about whose honesty they knew moth.
Ing, or who are incumbered with liens and
Judgments, and FIRST mortgages, and sec.
ond mortgages, and third mortgages Of
evil habits. No wonder that in such cir
cumstances parents, in conjugating tbs
verb in question, pass from the subjunc-
indicative to the imperative. In nearly
all the cases Of escapades that you will
hear Of the rest Of your lives there will be
. headlong leap over the barriers Of pa.
rental common sense and forethought.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten
in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not
that the dead are there.
In view Of all this charge You to break
up claudestine correspondence IL you are
engaged in it. and have no more clandes-
tine meetings either at the ferry. or on the
street. or at the house Of mutual friends, or
at the corner Of the woods. Do not have
letters come for you to the post-cfiice under
assumed address. Have no correspondence
that makes YOU uneasy lest some ons by
mistake open your letters. Do not employ
terms OF endearment at the beginning and
close Of letters, unless Won have right to
use them. That Young ladv. Is on the edge
Of danger who dares not allow her mother
to see her letters.
II you have sensible parents take them
into your confidence in all the affairs o.
the heart. Thew viii give you more good
advice in one hour than YOU can get from
all the world beside in five wears. Thew
have toiled for Won so long and praved for
you so much. they have vour best interests
At heart. At the same time let parents re-
view their opposition to proposed mari
tai alliance. and see IL their opposition is
founded on q genuine wish for the child's
welfare. or on some within or notion ov
prejudice or se,Ashness. fighting a natural
law and irving 10 make Niagara run M
stream. Mr.. Pitt. the Prime Minister OF
England. was ALWAYS saving wise thin~s.
One dav Sir Walter Farnuar called on him
in great perturbation. Mr.. Pitt inquired
what was the matter. and Sir Walter told
him That his daughter was about
to he married tn one not WORTHY of he-
rank. Mr.. Pitt said: ats the
voung man Of resnectah,e fami,v?" EYES"
ats he respectable In himselfs" "ves."
"Has he an estimable characterf" eyes,
"Wbv. then. NV dear Sir Walter. make ur
opposition." The advice was taken. and .
happv married life ensned. Let ministers
and officers Of the law declins offcintin"
AZ clandastine marriages. When thew ars
asked to date MARRIAGE certificate bach
az we MI are asked. let them peremptori'r
| decline to saw that the ceremony was "
November instead Of Januarv. or derlin'
| to leave The date blank lest others iii ou'
the record enormously. Let law h
| passed in al, our States ns IL has already
| been In soma Of our States. making {
| license from officers Of the lew necessar,
before we can unite coaples. and then maxi
| it necessary to ruhlish beforehand In th'
rawsparers ~ II used to he published f.
| the New Fn"'nnd churches. IN that I
there he lawful objection It NAV he pre
scented. not SWINGING the huov on III
rocks after the shin has struck and gons Il
pieces. And here IL MIGHT he we'll for m
| to take all the romance ont of ~ escarad
nv quntiur a dozen lines Of Rc.crt Pollock
the great Scotch poet. where he describe
the crazed victim of one Of these esca
pades:
Vet had she many DAYS
| o. sorrow IN the world. hut never went.
she lived IN aims and carried In her han
Some withered stalks she gathered in th
spring.
When anr asked the cause. she smiled an
They were her sisters and would come an
\ watch
Tier grave when she was dead. She neve
smoke
| OF her decniver father. mother. homo
! Or child or heaven. or he'll. or God. Int still
| Tn lonely Dia,ns walkeI AMI evnr gazei
ITron tho wi'hered stalks and talked them
TIN wasted to th" shadow ~ her vouth.
| with wne too wide to sae bevnnd sha died.
Rut now tnrn On this subject an intense
li~ht. We have fifteen hundred lights !,
this church. and when nv electric tnurl
thew are kindlad in the eveninr service I
il almost stcrt'ipo. Rut this whole snhier
| Of "Clandestine Marriages and EscapadAs'
nut nnder more intense lioht than that
The HEADLIGHT Of a locomotive is terrible I
Won stand near enough TO catch the fnl
| glare Of it. As IL sweeps around tn
"Hnrseshoe curve" Of the AIleehenies o
alone the edge of the Sierra Nevadas. hov
fer ahead and how deem down. and hos
hioh M IT. flashes. AND there is instantane
ons revelation If mountain peak and viii
beasts hieine themselves to their caverns
and cascades thousand feet tall. clinoin
in white terror to the prerinices! Bu
more intense. more far.reaching. NOR
sudden. swifter and more tremendous
is the HEADLIGHT Of an advancing Judemen
Dav. under which all the most hidden AT
fairs Of life shall come to discovery and ar
raienment. l quote an Overwhelming
PASSAGE Of Scripture. in which I pnt tn
whole emphasis on the word "secret:"
God shall bring evary work into Judgment
with every secret thing, whether II be goo
or evil.
What time that will he In which tn
cover shall he lifted from everv home AM
from every heart. The iniauitv NAV hav
been so slv that IL escaped all human de
lection, but It win be as we'll known o.
that day as the crimes of Sodom and Go
morrah. unless for Christ's sake. It ha
been forgiven. All the fingers Of universe