The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-16

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main. Alas for those ducal country seats
They on large scale illustrate, what on
smaller scale may be seen in many places,
that without moral character in a husband
all the accessories of wealth are to wlfes
soul tantalization and mockery. When
Abigail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly
drunk, as she comes home from intercedlng
for his fortune and life, it was no alleVla-
tion that the old brute had possessions in
Carmel, and twas very great, and had
three thousand sheep, and one thousand
goats" and he the worst goat among thenl'
The animal in his nature seized the soul III
its mouth and ran off with it.
Before things are right in this world gen
teel villains are to be expurgated. Instead
of being welcomed into respectable society
because of the amount of stars and garters
and medals and estates they represent they
ought to be fumigated two or three years
before they are allowed without peril to
themselves to put their hand on the door
knob of moral house. The time must
come when a masculine estray will be as
repugnant to good society as a feminine
estray, and no coat of arms or family en-
bazonry or epaulet can pass Lotharo un-
challenged among the sanchties OF home
life. BY what law of God or common sense
is an Absalom better than Delilah, Don
Juan better than "a Messahna! The brush
that paints the one black must paint the
other black But what a spectacle 1t was
when last summer much of watering
place" society went wild with enthusiasm
over an unclean foreign dignitary whose
name in both hemispheres is
synonym for prohigacy, and princesses
of American society from oil partS
of the land had him ride in their car
riages and sit at their tables, though they
knew him to be a portable lazarretto,
charnel house of moral putrefaction,
his breath a typhoid, his foot that of a
Satyr and his touch death. Here is an evil
that men cannot stop but women may.
Keep all such out of your parlors, have no
recognition for them in the street, and no
more think of allying your lite and destiny
with theirs than "gales from Araby" would
consent to pass the honeymoon with an
Egyptian plague. All that money or social
position a bad man brings to woman III
marriage is a splendid despair, gilded
horror, brilliant agony, prolonged death,
and the longer the marital union lasts the
more evident will be the fact that she
might better never have been born. Yet
you and | have been at brilliant weddings
where before the feast was over the bride
groom's tongue was thick, and his eyes
CLASSY, and his step a stagger as he clicked
glasses with jolly comrades, all going with
lightning limited express train to the fatal
crash over the embankment of ruined life
and lost eternity
Woman, join not your right hand with
such right hand. Accept from such an
one no jewel for finger or ear lest that spar
kle of precious stone turn out to be the eye
of a basalisz, and let not the ring come on
the finger of your right hand lest that ring
turn out to be one link of a chain that shall
bind you in never-ending captivity. In the
name of God and heaven and home, In the
name of all time and all eternity l forbid
the banns Consent not to join one OF the
many regiments of women who have mar
ried for worldly success without regard to
moral character.
If you are ambitious, o woman, for noble
afiiancing, why not marry kings And to
that honor you are invited by the Monarch
of heaven and earth, and this day voice
from the skies sounds forth: "As the bride
groom reioiceth over the bride
50 shall thy God rejoice over
thee" Let him put upon thee
the ring of the royal marriage. Here is an
honor worth reaching after. By repentance
and faith you may come into marriage
with the Emperor of universal domiHron, and
you may be an Empress unto God forever,
and reign within palaces that the centuries
cannot crumble or cannonades demolish.
High worldly marriage is not necessary
for woman or marriage of any kind In order
to your happiness. Celibacy has been
honored by the best being that ever lived
and his greatest apostle, Christ and Paul.
What higher honor could single life on
earth havel But what you need, o, woman
is to be afiianced forever and forever, and
the banns of that marriage | am this mo-
ment here and now ready to publish. Let
the angels of Heaven bend from their gal
eries of light TO witness while pronounce
you one-a loving God and forgiven soul.
One of the most stirring passages in history
with which am acquainted tells us how
Cleopatra, the eXiled Queen of Egypt, won
the sympathes OF Julius Caesar, the CON
uuerOr until he became the bridegroom and
she the bride Driven from her thrones,
she sailed away on the Mediterranean sea in
a storm, and when the large ship anchored
she put out with one womanly friend In a
small boat until she arrived at
Alexandria, where was Caesar, the
great general. Knowing that she would
not be permitted to land or pass the guards
on the way to Caesars palace, she laid upon
the bottom of the boat some shawls and
scarfs and richly dyed upholstery and then
lay down upon them, and her friends
wrapped her in them and she was admitted
ashore in this wrapping OF goods, which
was announced as a present for Caesar.
This bundle was permitted to pass the
guards of the gates Of the palace and was
put down at the feet of the Roman general.
w nen JDe Dull1lo was uIIOllbl bhclO iOoo
before Cesar one whose courage and beauty
and brillancy are the astonishment of the
ages. This exiled Queen of Egypt told the
story of her sorrows, and he prom
ised her that she should get back
her throne in Egypt and take the throne
Of wifely dominion in his own heart. AT
terw ard they made a triumphal tour In
barge that the pictures Of many art gale
ries have called "Cleopatra's Barge" and
that barge was covered with silken awning,
and its deck was soft with luxuriant car
pets and the oars were silver-tipped, and
the PROV was gold-mounted, and the air
was redolent with the spicery OF tropical
gardens and resonant with the music that
made the night glad as the day. You may
rejoice, O woman, that you are not Cleo
patra and that the one to whom you may
be afflanced had none Of the sins of Caesar,
the conqueror. But it suggests to me how
you, a soul exiled from happiness and peace,
may find your way TO the feet of the con-
queror of earth and sky. Though it may be
a dark night of spiritual agitation in which
you put out into the harbor of peace you
may sail, and when all the wrappings of
fear, and doubt, and sin, shall be removed,
you will be found at the feet of him who
will put you on a throne to be acknowledged
as his in the day when all the silver trum-
pets of the sky shall proclaim: behold the
bridegroom cometh, and in barge of light
you sail with him the river whose source is
the foot of the throne, and whose mouth is
at the sea of glass mingled with fire.