The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-23

return to the club rooms If they be mon, or
to their special gatherings if they be women,
to chatter and giggle over what was said to
them in confidence. Condign punishment
is apt to come upon them and they get paid
in their own coin. | could point you to
score whom society has let drop very
hard in return for their base
traffic in human hearts = AS to such men
they walk around in their celibacy,
after their hair is streaked with gray, and
pretending they are naturally short-slghted
when their eyes are so old in sin that they
need the spectacles of a septuagenarian, an
eyeglaSs about No. s, and think they are he
witching in their stride and overpOwcring
in their glances, although they are simply
laughing stock for all mankind And il
these base dealers in human hearts be fe-
males, they are left after awhile severely
alone, striving in very desperation OF ag-
ony of cosmetics to get back to the attract
ivenesS they had when they used to brag
how many masculine affections they had
slaughtered. Forsaken of God and honest
men and good women, are sure to be all
such masculine and female trifers with
human and yet immortal affections. o,
man, o woman, having plighted your troth
stick to it
And here my idea widens and l have to
say not only to those who have made mis-
take in solemn promise of marriage, but to
pronounced one when they are two, or in
diversity of tastes and likes and dislikes are
neither one nor two, but dozen-make the
best YOU can of an awful mistake. And
here let me answer letters that come from
every State of the American Union, and
from across the sea, and are coming year
after year from men and women who are
terrifically allanced and tied together in a
hard knot, very hard knot The letters
run something like this: "What ought to
do, my husband is a drunkardW MY wife
is gad-about and will not stay at home"
"My companion is ignorant and hates books
and revel in them" 81 like music and
piano sets my husband crazy" 81 am fond
of social life and my companion is arecluse."
Il am trying to be good and my lifelong
associate is very bad. What shall | do ("
My answer is, there are certain good reasons
| for diVorcement. The Bible recognizes
them. Good society recognizes them. But
it must be the very last resort, and only
after all reasonable attempts at reclamation
and adjustment have proved dead failure
When such attempts fail it is generally be-
cause of meddlesome outsiders, and women
tell the wronged wife how she ought to
stand on her rights, and men tell the
wronged husband how he ought to stand on
his rights And let husband and wife i'll an
unhappy marriage relation stand punctll-
iously on their rights, and there will be no
read iustment and only one thing Will be
sure to them and that is he'll on earth.
If you are urfhappily married, in most
cases | advise you, make the best you can
of an awfully bad bargain. DO not project
your pecuiarities more than is necessary.
Perhaps you may have some faults OF your
own which the other party in the marital
alliance may have to suffer. You are in
the same yoke. If you pull aside the yoke
will only twist your neck. Better pull
II f- full Of w IN
made mistakes about many things and
among other things about betrothal and
marriage and yet have been tolerably
happy and very useful in the strength OF
God and by the grace promised III every
time of need if those who seek 1t conquer
the disadvantageous circumstances. am
acquainted with lovely women married to
contemplate men and genial men yoked
with ter1nagants inspired Of the devil. And
vet under these disadvantages my friends
are useful and happy. God helps people in
other kinds of martyrdom and to sing in
the flame and he will help you in your
| lifelong misfortune.
Remember the patience of Job. What a
wife he had At time when he was one
| great blotch of eruptions and his property
| was destroyed by tornado and, more than
all, bereavement had come and the poor
| man needed all wise counsel she advises
| him to go to cursing and swearing. She
wanted him to poultice his boils with bias
phemy But he lived right on through his
marital disadvantages, recovered ms health
| and his fortune and raised splendid family
and the closing paragraph of the book OF
| Job has such jubilance that | wonder peo-
ple do not offener read it: $50 the Lord
| blessed the latter end of job more than his
beginning: for he had fourteen thousand
| sheen, and six thousand camels, and a
| thousand yoke of oxen, and thousand she
asses. He had also seven sons and three
daughters. And he called the name of the
! first Jemima, and the name of the second
| KeZia, and the name of the third keren-
happuch. And in all the land were no
women found so fair as the daughters OF
| Job; and their father gave them inheritance
among their brethren. After this Job
lived a hundred and forty years, and saw
| his sons, and his sons sons, even four
generations So Job died. being old and
| full of days"
Now, MY badly-married friend of either
sex, if Job could stand it by the help or
| God, then YOU can stand it by the same dl-
vine reinforcement. You have other rela-
tions, O woman, beside the wifely relation.
| If you are mother, train up your children
| for God and heaven. IL you are member
| of church, help move on its enterprises
| You can get SO much of the grace OF God IN
your heart that all your home trials Will
/ seem lflslgIllucdDt- NOW bbblo ShNO
does it make what your unrighteous hus-
band calls you, if God calls you his child
| and you are an heiress of whole Kingdoms
beyond the skye
fmmerse yourself in some kind of out
side usefulness, something that will enlist
your prayers, your sympathies, your hand,
| your needle, your voice. Get your heart
| on fire with love to God and the disenthrall-
ment of the human race, and the troubles
| of your home will be blotted out in the
| glory of your consecrated life. / cry out
| TO you, o woman, as Paul exclaims in his
| letter to the Corinthians: "What knowest
thou, o wife, whether thou shalt save thy
husbandp And if you cannot save
him you can help in the grander,
mightier enterprise Of helping save the
world. Out of the awful mistake of your
marriage rise into the sublimest life of self
sacrifice for God and suffering humanity.
Instead of settling down TO nope over your
| domestic woes, enlist your energies for the
| world S redemption.
Some parts of Holland keep out the ocean
| only by dykes or walls of stout masonry.
| The engineer having these dykes in charge
was soon TO be married to maiden living
in one of the villages the existence of which
depended on the strength Of these dykes.
| And there was to be q great feast in one OF
the villages that approaching evening in
| honor of the coming bridegroom. That day
| a great storm threatened the destruction or
| tho dykes, and hence the destruction OF
| A. - -, ehaftarQI