Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-13
fHL DEATH Do Us PART.
A Dove Married to a Cruel and Ra-
pacious VuIture by Bald
Headed Eagle.
That Ceremony Is Just the Same az
Marrying a Modest Maiden to
Dlssipsied Rene.
DIR. TaImsgs Delivers Masteriu Ut hhh'F
tatfon to the Women OF smer'ca'
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, NY, Jan. 8-The Rev
Dewitt Talmage, D. D preached at the
Tabernacle this morning the first OF the
series of sermons TO the women Ct
America, with practical hintsf or man
The subject of this discourse WAS: "The
Women Who Fight the Battle Of Life
Alone" snd the text was from Proverbs
xiv. /: "EFery Wise Woman Buildeth
Her House" DR.. Talmage said:
Woman, q mere adjanct t. msn, an sp-
Dendix TO the masculine volume, an ap
pendsge, sort Of afterthoueht, some
thing thrown in 10 make things even
tbs. is the heresy entertained and implied
by some men. This is evident TO them
Woman's insign fcance 80 compared 70
msn is evident to them, because Adam
was first created and then Eve. Tney
don't read the whole story or they would
ind that the porp0ise and the bear snd
the hawk were created before Adam, sc
that this argument drawn from priority Of
creation might prove that the sheep Snd
the dog were greater than man. No
Woman WAS an independent creation End
was Intended, If she chose, TO live alone,
to walk alone, act alone, think alone, and
Sight her battles alone. The Bible says
it is not good ar man to be alone, Dut
never says it is ot good for woman to be
alone, and the ample fact Is That many
women who are harnessed for life in the
marriage relation would be a thOussnd-fold
better of IL they we're alone. God makes
no mistake, and the fact that there is such
a lsrge majority Of women in tnis land
proves that he intended thst multitudee
OF them should go alone,
Who are these men who year after year
hang around hotels aud engine houses
anc theEter doors, and CCme In and out
TO bother busy clerks aad merchants and
mechanics, doing nothing even when
there Is plenty to dO2 They are men sup
ported by their wives end mothers If
the statistics OF 6ry Of cur cities could be
taken on this subject you would find that
q vast multitude Of woman not only sup
port themselves out msscuiines. A great
legion Of men amount TO nothing, and
woman by marriage ma1acled to one Of
these nOneltiiies needs coincidence.
woman standing outside the marTisge re-
latiOu is several hundred thousand times
better Of than q woman badly married.
HauY bride instead of wreath of or
ange blossoms, might more properly
wear bunch Of nettles and nightshsde,
and instead OF the Wedding March, more
appropriate tune would be the Dead
March ia Saul, and instead Of banquet
OF confectionery ana ices there might be
more appropriately spread table covered
with apples Of SodOm, which are outside
fair snd inside ashes.
Many an attractive woman Of good
sound sense in other things, has married
one Of these men TO reform him. What
was the result? Like when dove motto
ing that vullure was
RAPACIOUs AND CRUEL,
set about to reform it and said, 81 have =
mild disposition, and 1 like peace, and
was brought up in Jae quiet Of q dove
cote, and will bring the vulture to the
same liking by mzrrJ ing him." So one
day after the vplture had declared hf
would give up his Csrnivorous habits and
cease longing for blood of fi3ck and herd,
1T sn Sltar OF rock, covered with moss
and lIchen the twain were married, q
oald-headed eagle officiating, the vulture
saying, "With all my dominion of earth
and sky thee endow, and promise to !
love and cherish till death do Us part"
But one day the dove IN her
Digit saw the vulture busy at s
csrcsss and cried, "Siop that! did you
not promise me that you would quit your
CarnlvOrOus and III by habits If married
you?" YES" said the vulture, "but il
you don't like my wsy you csn leave"
and with one angry str he Of beak and
smother fierce Gluten IF claw the yulture |
LETT the dove eyeless and wingless and !
lIfeless. And flock of robins HsiDg pas
cried TO each other and said, "See there!
that comes from doves marrying s vul. |
ture TO reform him
Many q woman who hiss hsd the hand
OF s young ineoriste ffered but declined
1t, or who was asked to chain her lite TO 3
man selfish or Of bad temper and refused
the shackles, viii bless God throughout
all eternity that che escaped thst esrthlY
Besides all this, In cur country about |
l ,000,000 men were sacrificed in our civil |
war, and that decreet 100000 women |
10 cellbscy. Besides that, since the war, |
several armies of men IS large as the |
Federal and Confederate armies put |
together have fallen under malt liquors |
and distilled spirits so full of poisoned |
ingredients thst the work was done more |
-apidly, aud the victims fell while yet |
young. And if 90, 900 men are DESTROYED |
Every year by strong drink before mar-
Rage, that makes in the twenty-tnree
7esrs since the wsr l, $50 900 men slain,
Ind DEGREES 1850, 000 women to celioacy.
Take then the fact that SO many women
ire unhsppy in their marriage, and the
act that the slaughter of 2,150, 900 men
~ war and rum combined decides that at
east that number Of women shall be IN
for life, nay text comes in with a
,heer snd potency snd appropriateness
hat never saw 10 it before when it says,
Every wise woman buildeth her house,"
hat is, let woman be her own architect,
az out her own plans, be her own super
isor, achieve her own destiny.
In addressing these women who will
ave TO fight the battle of life slone con-
ratulate you on your happy escspe.
.eioice forever that you will not have to
sYIgate the faults of
THE OTHER SIX,
Yhen you have faults enough Of your own.
link of the beresvements you avoid, OF
he risk of unsssinilated temper which
GU will not have to run, of the cares you
ill never have to carry spd of the oppor
unity of outside usefulness from which
larital life would have partially debarred
on and thst you are free to go and come
S one who has the responsibility OF s
ousehold csn seldom be. God hiss not !
iven You hard lot SIS compared with
our sisters. When young women shall
,ske m their minds at the start that