Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-11

serpents may be ripped up by the iurrow
and however many alarmed people may
cry "phoar
That marriage ia the destination Of tht
human raceis
MISTAKE
that want to correcs before | 60 further
There multitudes who never will marry
and still greater multidudes who are no
fit to marry. In Gres. Britain to-day
there are 9iS, 900 more women than men
sad that, | understand, is about the ratio
IN America. By mathematical and in
exorable law, you see, millions Of women
will never marry. The supply for matri
mouy greater than the demand, the first
lesson Of which is that every woman ought
TO prepare TO take care OF herself If need
be. Then there are thousands Of men who
have 20 right TO marry, because they have
become so corrupt Of character that their
offer Of marriage is an insult 10 any good
woman Society will have TO be toned up
and corrected on this subject, SC
that it shall realize that if woman who
has sacrsGced her honor is united for
marriage, so is any man who has ever sac
rihced his purity. What right have you
O Masculine beast whose life has been
loose, to take under your care the spotless
ness of virgin reared in the sanctity Of u
respectable home? VIII a bDzzard dare
10 court o dove?
But the majority Of you will marry and
have right to marry, aud as your religious
teacher wish 10 say to these men, in the
enc &C cf a wife first Cf all
SEEK DIVINE DIRECTION.
About thirty-tya years ago when MGrtiu
FnSqahar Upper, the English poet, urged
men TO pray before they decided upon
matrimonial association, people laughed.
AuG some Il them have lived 20 laugh on
the other aide OF their mouth. The need
Of Divine direction | argue from The iact
thai SO many men, ana Foue Of them
strong and wise, have wrecked their
lives pt this junctgre. Witness
Samson aud this woman Of Iimuath. Wit.
neas Socrates psck.d OF the historical Nan
lipps Witness job, whose wito had moth
ing TO prescribe for his carbuacies bat atio.
palhic doses OF profanity Witness Anauias,
liar, who might perhaps have been cured
by q truthful spouse, yet marrying as great
a liar as bim5eii-S4pphiTa Witness John
Wesley, one Of The best men that ever lived
united tc one OF the most outrageous and
scaEGalous Of women who sht in City Road
Chapel making mouths at him while he
preached Witness the once c2nnu0iaI
wrrtcheduess Of John Ruskin, the great
grt essayisf, and Frederick " Robertson,
the great preacher Witness a thousand
hell. on earth kirdl-d by unworthy wives,
tarmagauts that scUld Ike March north,
easter; female sDeudDhrii,s, that put their
husbands into fraudulent rchen 5 to gc;
moaey enough 10 nee, the layishmeui
OF domestic expenditure; opium.
raing women about 10000 OF
them in the uited Sistes-
Who will aaye tie drug though it shouli
cause the eternal damnaioH Of rha whole
household; haariIrs5 and oYorbeariug, and
uhmby-pamhy ard unreasonable women
yet married; married perhaps to good men.
These are he women who ICI!d the Low
club bolsrs, where The husbands and sons
90 aecaus- they cant stand it az home
On this sea OF mG,rimony, where so many
have wrecked, nn not right III advising
Divine pilo'sge?
Especially il devout supplcatiou needed
because Of the fact that society is so full
If