Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-18
PICKING OUT A HUSBAND.
TALMAGE'S SECOND TALK IN
THE EMARRIAGE RING SERIES.


T. De Witt Talmaee, .. D., preached to-
day in the Brooklyn tabernacle, the sec
ond OF his series of sermons on "The Mar
rlage Ring" Having spoken last Sunday
on The Choice OF a Wife," he to-day
preached on "rhe Choice Of a Husband" !"
The organIst rendered the Sonata in G
minor, by Rheinberger. Congregational
singing, led by Prof. Ali's cornet, included
that OF the hymn beginning:
Awake. my soul. to joyful laws!
Ana sing thy great ltedeemers praise
Selecting his text from Ruth i, o: "The
Lord grant you that We may ind rest
each OF you IN the house of her husband" !"
the eloquent preacher said:
This was the prayer Of pious Naomi for
Ruth and Orpah, and is an appropriate
prayer now in behalf ofunmarried woman
hood. Naomi, the good old soul, knew
that the devil would take their cases in
hand if God did not, so she prays The
Lord grant that We may find rest. each Of
you in the house Of her husband
In this series OF sermons on ''The Mar
riage Ring" ] last sabbath gave prayer
tul and Christian advice to men in regard
to the selection OF a wife. and to-day
give the same prayerful and Christian ad-
wee TO women IN regard To the selection
OF husband, but in all these SERMONS
saying much that | hope viii be appro.
pirate for all ages and all classes.
l applaud the celibacy of a multitude OF
women who, rather than make unit selec-
tlon, have made none at all. IL has not
been lack OF opportunity for marital con
tract on their part, bur their own culture
AtaA
to what husband ought TO be, have
caused their declinature. They hayeseen
so many women marry imbeciies, or ruf-
tlans, or inciplent sots, or lifetime Incapa-
bles, or magnificent nOthings, or men who
before marriage We're angelic and after
ward diabolic. that they have been
alarmed and stood back. Tney saw so
many boats 30 into the maelstrom THAI
they steered into other waiers. Better for
a woman TO live alone. though she live
thousand years. than to be annexed 10 one
of these masculine failures with which
society Is surbted. The patron saint of
almost every family circle is some such
unmarried woman, and among all the
families of cousins she moves around, and
her coming IN each house Is the morning
and her going away is the night.
In my large circle of kindred, perhaps
twenty families IN all, it was an Aunt
Phoebe. Paul gave a letter of introduce
zion to one whom he calls "PhOebs our
sister, as she went up from Ceuchrea TO
Rome, commenting her for her Kindness
and Christian service, and imploring for
her all cOurtesies. | think Aunt Phoebe
was named after her. Was thore sick
ness in any Of the households, she was
there ready to SIT up and count out the
drops of medicine. Was there marriage,
she helped deck the bride for the altar
Was there new soul incarnated, she was
there to rejoice at the ma iVity. Was
there a sore bereavement, she was there
to console. The children rushed out at
her first appearance crying, "Here comes
Aunt Phoebe" and but tor parental i'm
reference, they would have pulled her
down with their caresses, fOI she was
we're Illnesses had given her
enough GlImpses OF the next world 10
make her heavenly Her table
was loaded up with BaXter's "Saints'
Rest, "DOddridge's "Rise and Progress" :"
and jays Morning and Evening Exer-
cises," and John Bunyan's "Plgrim's
PrOgress,' and like books, which have fit
ted out whole generations for the heaven
upon which they they have already en-
tered.
Dewitt she said to me one dav,
twice in my life ! have been 80 over
whelmed with she love of God that faint
ed away ana could hardly be resuscitated
DON'T tell me there IS no heaven. have
seen it twice" If you would know how
her presence would soOthe an anxiety or
lit a burden or cheer a sorrow, or leave
blessing on every room in the house, ask
any of the Talmages. she had tarried at
her early home. taking care OF an invalid
father. until the bloom or life had soma
-
young folks with some three or four ten
der passages in her own history,
so that we all knew that it was
not through lack Of opportunity
that she was not the queen Of one house
hold, instead of being beuedlctiOn or
whole circle Of households. Al about 20
wears Of age sbe made he- last VI sit to mv
house, aud when she sat i'm my Pniiadel-
phia church, / was more embarrassed at
her presence than by an the audience,
because l felt tbat IN religion had got no
further than the a, b, g, while she bad
learned the whole alphabet, ana for many
years had finished the Y and \. When
She went out Of this life into the next,
what a shout there must have been IA
heaven, from the front door clear up 10
the back seat in the highest galleryl
saw the other lay I'm the ilJge cemetery
Of Somerville, y. j., her resting place, the
tombstone having on II the words which
80 years ago she told me she would like 10
have inscribed there, namely, "The Morn
ing COmeth."
Had sue a mission in the Worldy Ger
tainly. As mucn as Caroline Herschsl,
first amanuensis for her illustriOus broth
er, and then mis- assistant in Astronomical
calculations, and then discovering worlds
for herself. dying at 9S years OF age, still
busy with the stars TIA she sped beyond
them; az much as had Florence NiKhtlu-
gale tbe nurse d the Crimea; or Grace
Darling. the horsewOman Of the Long
Stone Lighthouse; or Mary Lyon, the
teacher OF Mount HoiyOke Female Semi
nary On Hannah More, the Caristian au-
thoress Of England; or D0rothea DIX, the
angel 0f mercy for the insane; or Anna
Etherdgc. among the wounded OF Black
burns Fort; or Margaret Breckenridge,
~ Vieks1urR; on Mary shelton, distrlbu-
ting roses, and grapes, and cologne, iu
Western hospital; or thousands %. other
glorious women like them. " nO never TOOK
toe marriage sacrament Appreciate All
this. my sister, sud 10 VIII make gou de-
liDerate before you rush out OF tng single
state into another, unless you are sure VI
brtDermenl
Deliberate ana pray. Pray aud deIlber-
ate. As ! showed you ln my former ser-
mon. a man nuFhf fa supuIicate biYiue
guidance 100 such crislF; low mueu more
lm0fiaut tHai sou solicit Iti lt is easier
iof man 0nud 40 Appropriate wife than
iOr "a woman tn hGd q good husband. This
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