Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-11

fnymes 10 at which ought 10 burden tne
most trer nendous sermon q ininister ever
prcache s, from the day when he takes or
dinaUon to the day when IN Judgment he
meet his God. And so, In this course OF
ser mons, am going 20 hitch up my best
te' Am TO the whiiiietree, aud put the coul-
: or Of the plough clear no to the beam,
and 40 straight ON from fence TO fence,
howcasS many nests of moles and SER
penis nS&tSbe ripped up by the furrow,
and however many alarmed people may
cry "whoaip
That marriage is the destination N the
human race is mistake that want TO
correct before 90 further. There are
multitudes who never wiz marry, aud
sull greater multiudes who are not TT 10
marry. In Great Britain to-duy there are
g4B,000 more women than men, and that,
understand, " about the ratio ia
America BY mathematical and iueXora-
BIO hw, you see, millions ot women will
never marry. The supply for matrim0py
greattr than the demand, tho FIRST lesson
OF which IS that every woman ought TO
prepare TO take care OF herself II need be-
Then there are thousands Of men who
have no right 10 marry, because they
have become 80 corrupt Of character that
their offer Of marriage Is an insult 20 any
good woman. Society viii have TO be toned
up aud corrected on this subject, so
that lt shall realize that II q woman who
iils sacrificed her honor Is united for
marriage, 30 Is any man who has ever
sacrificed his purity. What right have
you, o masculine beast, whose life has
been loose, to take under your care the
spotlesspess OF a virgin reared Ia the
sanctity Of a respectable homer VIII u
buzzard dare 10 court dover
But the majority OF you will marry and
have a right TO marry, and as your re-
ligious teacher / wish TO say TO these
men, In the choice Of wife first of all
seek divine direction. About thlrty-1ve
years ago, when Martin Farquhar Tup-
per, the English poet, urged meu to
prayer before they decided upon matr-
monlal association, people laughed. And
some OF them have lived TO laugh on the
other side Of their mouth. The need OF
divine direction 1 argue from the fact
that so many men, and some OF them
strong and wise, have wrecked their lives
at this junctule. Witness Samson and
this woman of Timnath. Witness Socrates
pecked OF the historical Xantippe. Wit
ness job, whose wife had nothing to pre-
scribe for his cafbuncles but allopathic
doses of profanity. Witness Ananias,
liar, who might perhaps have been cured
by truthful spouse, yet marrying as great
a liar as himself-Sapphira Witness
John Wesley, one of the best men that
ever lived, united to one of the most out
rageous and scandalous of women, who
sat in City Road chapel making mouths
at him while he preached. Witness the
once connubial wretchedness Of John
Ruskin, the great art essay list, and Fred
erick w. Robertson, the great preacher.
Witness thousand hells on earth kndled
by unworthy wives, termagants that
scold like u March northeaster; female
spendthrifts that put their husbands into
fraudulent schemes to get money enough
TO meet the layishment of domestic eX-
penditurcs; opium-eating women--about
100000 Of them In the United States
VINO viii have the drug though It should
cause the eternal damnatiou of the whole
household; heartless and overbeaiing,
and mandy PANTY and unreasonable
women, yet married; married, perhaps, 10
good mep. These are the women who
build the low Lighthouses, where the bus
bands and CONS 20 because they can't
stand it at home. On this sea of matri-
mony, where SO many have wrecked, AIN
not right In advising divine pllotage?
Especially Is deyout supplication needed
because OF the fact that society rs SO lull
OF artillcialtis that men are deceived as
TO whom they are marrying aud no one
but the Lorh knows. After the dress
maker, and the milliner, and the ieweler
and the hair-adluster, and the dancing
! master, and the cosmetic art have com.
| pleted their work, how IL an unSophis-
/ ticated man to decipher the physiological
/ hieroglyphics and make accurate iudg-
ment of who 1t il to whom he offers hand
aud heart? That Is what makes SO many
recreaut husbands. They make an honor
able marriage contract, hut the goods
delivered are so different from the sample
/ by which they bargalned They were
simply swlndled, and they backed out
They mlstook Jezebol for Longfellow's
| Evangehnc, and Lucretia Borgia for
Martha Washington.
! Aye; as the Indian chief boasts OF the
scalps he has taken, so there are Ia society
to-day many coquettes who boast of the
masculine hearts they have captured.
/ Aud these women, though they may live
amid richest upholstery, are not so honor
able az the cyprlans of the street, for
these advertise their infamy, while the
former profess heaven while they mean
he'll, There Is so much counterfeit
womanhood abroad IL Is no wonder that
some cannot tell the genuine coin from
the base. DO you not realize you need
divine guidance when | remind you that
mistake Is possible in this important
affair." and, II made, Is irrevocableg
/ The worst predicament possible is to
be unhappily yoked together You see it
is impossible TO break the yoke. The
more you pull apart the more CALLING the
yoke. The minister might bring you up
again and In your presence read the mar
riage ceremony backward, might put you
on the opposite sides of the altar from
where you were when you were united,
might take the ring off of the finger, might
rend the wedding veil asuu Ter, might tear
out the marriage leaf from the family
bible record, but all that would fail to uu.
marry you. II is better not to make the
mistake than to attempt its correction.
4 But men and women do not reveal all
their characteristics TIL after marriage,
and how are you to avoid committing the
fatal bunderp There is only one being
in the universe who can tell you whom to
choose, and that Is the Lord OF Paradise.
He made Eve for Adam and Adam for