Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-12-05

| sot oeiuBS tOfc 10 SuuODlinB, love II
divine. We hear a great deal of tall
about love- when we should not say
love, but passion, have seen people
who imagined they were desperately
in love when they were only crazed
by passion. A love that thinks only
OF the body is not love, but passion. a
love that would tear aside the robe o.
maiden m0desty, and by act or word
or look would intimate undue fami-
liarlty, is not love, but passion. Love
Is puTei and by its very purity weaves
q robe or enchantment about the object
OF our love Of such transforming beauty
that we see our loved one with ewes
peculiar to ourselves, True love is so
pure one who has never known honor
or virtue often becomes Ylrtuous and
honorable when there springs up in
that degraded heart a true, devoted
love. And when marriage is the fruit
oil such q love as this, strong, ferYent,
pure, undying, devoted, marriage must
be pure, marriage must be holy, grow
ing upon such tree. A tree is
known by its fruits; and q good tree
can not bring forth evil fruit.
Marriage Is holy institution. It is
pure, Should you hear any one speak
OF 1t in filthy way, mark that person
as a leprous villain, and have no inter
course with such brute beasts, as Paul
calls them. They are not worthy to
be honored with tho name of man or
woman. Evil themselves and covered
with the slime OF sensuality, they know
not that there is such thing as purity
in others.
And In just the same way shun
every book, every newspaper article,
everything that speaks In a low way
OF the marriage relation. Men and
women In form, like degraded beasts
and worse In their nature, not SATISFIED
to live in their own filthy way to
themselves, send abroad these shafts
OF the devil to destroy and beloul the
innocent young OF our land. Shun
such person as you would q rattle
snake. Shun such as you would tne
assailant of your fathers religion and
mothers virtue.
The Bible teaches:
II. The solemnlty of marriage. Per-
feet purity Is solemn to the thoughtful
man or woman remembering that God ia
pure. He is pure God; holy king
He 10 omnisclent and omnipressnt and 70
quiTes purity In US. It is this sense Of
purity in the true woman that makes
even the common rake respect her and
ieel that even his sensual appetites are
held In check while in her presence. Not
only the holiness but the Tremendous re
sponBibiity OF marriage make II solemn.
Marriage is one of the three great
epoehs In life and more potent for good
or evil than either of the others. Reach
Ing manhood or womanhood is sole mn,
Standn g at the Threshold of the church
TOR admission Ia solemn. Ru4 more
soIeml Is IL when man and woman Haecept
each other tor better, for worse; for
richer for poorer; IN sickness and In
health, so long as ye both shall live"
This step will decide whether your
mature powers will prove to you bless
ing or a curse. Whether they will be
blessing or blighting Pestilence to those
aboutyyou
This step may ee,tle whether the VOWS
Of Christianity are to remain sacred or
become changed by the influence Of your
life companion, so you win learn to hate
and mock the most lovely things of God
and religion.
The first marriage was 60 solemn that
God himself made the very wife, and
would not trust the angel Gabriel to con
duct the nuptials, but He himself per
formed the ceremony and pronounced
the marriage.
See IsaSc and Rebecca begging their
sons not to marry the sinful girls about
them,
Hard headed Esau marrying the Hit
lite brought bitterness Of spirit unto
Isaac and Rebecca." obedient Jacob
goes many miles afoot, marries a woman
worthy Of his love and becomes the heir OF
promise. Faithful Abraham before this
had sent his tai hful servant hundreds of
miles with train of camels TO bring fJr
Isaac a vile from the landsof his fathers.
Amply is he repaid by the fidelity of the
beautiful Rebeeca,
1t is because Of this tremendous power
of wife over husband and husband over
wills that God expressly commands in His
word that His chosen people should not
intermarry with the outside world.
He saw 1t would endanger their spirit
ual lives and seriously cripple their power
for good.
See poos job in all his Affections of
body, mind and estate, aud all the con
ISOLATION he gets from his wife is to bear
her continually curslng and swearing at
him aud telling him to Course Go1 and
die"
Bad King Ahab msrries Jezebel because
she is a princess, only to find he has a
devil to lead him on in sin, theft, muir
der, idolatTy and finally death and ruin. |
For 2500 years she Is on record to show |
how low a had wife may sink a man.
Solomon, a man of wisdom and expert |
ence, said; "Fof three tn ngs the earth |
ia disquIeted, and for four which It can
not bear" and one of the four Is: IAN |
cd ous woman when she is married."
There was John wesley, married to |
v lxin, who followed him secretly for hun |
dreds oil miles She wOu eft in the con-
gregatiOn and make faces at him while he |
preached. She would open his letters
and put IN them all kinds of hard things
and false statements ard then publish |
them to injure his character DO you
suppose Wesley would have married her
Il she had shown the cloven fo.t before
Solomon said "Better to dwell in the
corner of housetop than with brawl-
Ing woman in a wide house 1t is
better to dwell IN thu wilderness than
with contentious and angry woman"
From the books Of human life and Divine
revelation 1t is solemn to get married.
She preacher gave an eloquent aud |
touching description of taking 3 young |
lady from Ter parents and home to be |
more and better TO her.
He assed scores of questions to hus
bands and then as many TO wives leaving |
In the silence OF the heart, TO |
answer. He was richly impartial
To all who could not satisfactorily an
sWer to themselves his questions he re-