Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20
TaImage, the Eloquent, Advises as to
Marriages Made Without Regard
to Moral Character.
A Tube Rose Planted Beside Thistle,
Palm Branch Twined Into
Wreath OF Night shade.
Hands are Thrown up In Horror of Such a
Union, but Worse Nuptisl Ties arc
Made Every Day.
TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.


to men. TIE subject of the sermon was
"Msrrlege for Worldly Success Withou
Regard to Moral Character" and tn,
text VAS from I. Samuel. XIV. 2: ZANE
there was man in Maon, whose posses
sions were in Carmel; and the man Wa
very great, and he had 5000 sheep s1t
1000 goats" DR.. Tslmsge said:
My text introduces US to a drunken
bloat OF large property. Before the da,
IF safety deposits and government bond
and national banks, people had their in
vestments in focks and herds, ant
this man. Nabal, OF the texr, hat
much Of his possessions il
1--we stock. He came also OF @ distin
gaisheG family and nsd glorious Cslet
for sn ancestor. But this descendan
was sneak, churl, q sot and fool
Oae instance to illustrate: 1t was !
wool-rsising country and at the time O.
shearing great feast was prepared fol
the shearers; and David and his warrior!
who had in other days saved from de
struction the threshiDg floors OF Nabal
sent to him asking, in this time OF plenty
for some bread for their starving men
And Nsbal cried out: "Who is ,David?'
As though so Englisaman hsd said
"Who is Wellington?" or German
should say: "Who is Won Moltke?" o.
an American should say: "Who is Wash
i1gton?" Nothing did Nsbal give to the
starving men, and that night the scoun
drel lay dead drunk at home, and the
Bible gives Us full length picture OF
him sprewling and msudlin and helpless
Now that WAS the man whom Abigail,
the lovely and gracious and good womsu
married-a tUberose plsnted beside c
thistle, palm branch twined into q
w.eath of deadly nightshade. Surely
thst was not one q the matches made il
heaven. We throw up our hands in hor-
TOR at that wedding. How did she evel
consent 10 link her destinies with such 9
creature? Well, she no doubt thought
that it would be an honor to be associ.
atod with an aristocretic family, and nc
one car despise o great name. Beside
this, wealth would come and with il
chains of gold AID mansions lighted By
swinging lamps Of aromatic oil, and re-
sounding with the cheer Of blTqueter:
eeated at tables laden with wines from
The richest vineyards and fruits from
ripesG orchards and nuts threshed from
foreign woods and meats smoking in
PLATES OF GOLD
set On by sl1ves in bright uniform. Be-
tore she plighted her troth with this dis
sipated man she sometimes said to her
self: "How can endure him! To be as
sociated for life with such a Cebauchee
cannot and will mott" But then sgair
she said to herself: ''It is time 1 was
married, and this Is cold world to de.
pend Oh, and perhaps l might do worse
and may be l will make a SOBER man on
of him, and marriage is lottery any
how" And when one day this represent
ative OF great house presented himself
in parenthesis Of sobriety and with AZ
assumed geniality and gallantry Of man.
ner, and with promises of fidelity, ant
kindness, and self-abnegstioD, a June
morning smiled on March squat, anC
the great souled woman surrendered bel
happiness to the keeping OF this Infamous
son OF fortune, whose possessions were
in Carmel; aud the man was very great
and he had 5000 sheep and 1000 goats.
Behold here domestic tragedy re-
peated every hour of the day sill ovel
notwithstanding for worldly sue
cess without regard to character. 81
Marie 3enne Philpon, the daughter G
the humble engraver of Paris, became th'
famous Madame Roland OF history, thu
vivacious and brillisnt girl uaited witt
The cold, formal, mOnotonous man be-
cause he came of an sffllent family o
Amiers snd mad lordly blood in his veins
The day when through political revolu
tion this patriotic woman was led to tn:
scaffold, around which lay piles Of human
heads that had fallen from the axe, an
she said to an sged man whom she hat
comforted on the way to the scafold
$50 first that you may not witness m,
DEATH" and then undaunted took he
turn to die-.hat day was to her only thu
last act of a tragedy OF which her uncoh
genial marriage day was the first.
Good aRd genial character N man
the very first requisite for womsn'
happy marriage. Mistake me not as de.
precistive of worldly prosperities. Their
| is religious cant th0t would seem t
represent poverty as virtue and wealt!
as crime. l can take you through
thousand mansions where God is as mucl
woTshipped as He ever was III cabin
The gospel inculcstes the virtues whicl
| tend toward wealth. In the millennium
We will all dwell in pslaces and ride il
chariots and fit at sulnptuous banquet
and sleep under rich embroideries ant
live four or five hundred years, for /
according to the Bible in those times
child shall die hundred years old. tn
average of human life will be at least fT
centuries. The whole tendency Of sin i
! toward poverty and the whole tendenc.
| of righteousness is toward wealth. God
| liness is profitable for the life that now i
| as well Is for thst which is to come. N
| inventory csn be msde Of the picture
galleries consecrated to God and OF sculp
ture and o: libraries and pillared mag
pifcence and Of
| PARKS AND FOUNTAINS
and gardens in the ownership Of GOO
men and women. The two most lordl
residences in which wss ever CUES
had morning and evening prayers, all tn
employees present, and all day long Their
was an sir Of cheerful piety in the CONVEX
setion and behavior. Lord RscstCck cal
ried the gospel to the Russian nobility
Lord Cavan and Lord Cairns spent thei
vacation in evaDgelistic services, LoI
Congleton became missionary to Bagdad
And the Christ who Was born in an east
ern carsvsnsary has again and agsin live
| in palace.
| It's = grand thing to have plenty c
money, and horses inst don't compel 20
| to take the dust of every numbering an
lazy vehicle; and books of history tbs
give you glimpse Of all the past; en-
shelves of poetry to which you msy
and ask Milton or Tennyson or Spence
| or Tom Moore or Robert Burns to ste
down and spend an evening with you
and other shelves to which yon may
while you feel Disguised wit
| the shame of the world, snd ask Theck