The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-19
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SECOND OF THE "SERIES TO WO-
MEN" AT THE TABERNACLE.

SECOND OF THE "SeRlEs TO Wo-
MEN" AT THE TABERNACLE.
Marriage for Worldly Success without
Regard to Moral Character the Sub
ject-Sfen Who Pretend to Despise Re-
ligion Are Rank Hypocrites.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 15.-In the BROOKLYN
Tabernacle this morning the Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage, ID. D., preached the second
II the series of sermons to the women of
America, with important hints to men.
The subject of the sermon was, ..Mar-
riage for worldly success without regard
to moral character and the text was
from | Samuel XIV, 2: "And there was
man i'll Maon, whose possessions were
III Carmel, and the man was very great,
and he had three thousand sheep and
thousand goats DIR. Talmage said:
My text introduces us to a drunken
bloat of large property. Before the day
of safety deposits and government bonds
and national hanks people had their in
vestments in fiocks and herds, and this
man, Nabal, of the text, had much of
his possessions in live stock. He came
also of a distinguished family and had
glorious Caleb for an ancestor. But this
descendant was sneak, a churl, sot
and fool One instance to Illustrate 1t
was wool raising country, and at the
time OF shearing a great feast was pre-
pared for the shearers; and David and
his warriors, who had in other days saved
from destruction the threshing floors of
Nabal, sent to him asking, in this time
of plenty, for some bread for their starv-
ing men, And Nabal cried out: "Who
is DavidP' AS though an Englishman
had said, "Who is Wellington" or
German should say, "Who is Won
Moltkeg' or an American should say,
''Who is Washington Nothing did
Nabal give to the starving men, and that
night the scoundrel lay dead drunk at
home, and the Bible gives us full length
picture of him sprawling and maudlin
and helpless.
Now that was the man whom Abigail,
the lovely and gracious and good woman
married. tuberose planted beside a
thistle, a palm branch twined into a
wreath of deadly nightshade Surely
that was not one of the matches made in
heaven. We throw up our hands m hor-
ror at that wedding. How did she ever
consent to link her destinities with such
n creaturel Well, she no doubt thought
that it would be an honor to be associ-
ated with an aristocratic family, and no
one can despise a great name. Besides
this, wealth would come and with it
chains of gold and mansions lighted by
swinging lamps of aromatic oil, and re-
sounding with the cheer of banqueters
seated at tables laden with wines from
the richest vineyards, and fruits from
ripest orchards, and nuts threshed from
foreign woods, and meats smoking in
platters Of gold, set on by slaves in
bright uniforms. Before she plighted
her troth with this dissipated man she
sometimes said to herself: ''How can l
endure himl To be associated for life
with such debauche l cannot and will
notp But then again she said to her
self lit is time l was married, and
this is cold world to depend on, and
perhaps ] might do worse, and may be |
will make a sober man out of him, and
marriage is lottery anyhow" And
when one day this representative of a
great house presented himself in a paren-
thesis of sobriety, and with an assumed
genialty and gallantry of manner, and
with promises Of fidelity and kindness
and self abnegation, a June morning
smiled on a March squall, and the great
souled women surrendered her happiness
to the keeping of this infamous son OF
forum whose possessions were in Car
mel; and the man was very great, and
he had three thousand sheep and a
thousand goats.
Behold here n domestic tragedy re-
peated every hour of every day all ovel
Christendom-marria for worldly sue.
cess without regard to character. Sc
Marie Jeanne Phlipon, the daughter Of
the humble engraver of Paris, became
the famous Nine. Roland of history, the
yivacious and brilliant girl united will
the cold, formal, monotonous man be
cause he came of an aff1uent family o
Amiens and had lordly blood in his veins
The day when, through political revolu
tion. this patriotic woman was led to tn
scaffold, around which lay piles o
human heads that had fallen from tn
ax, and she said to an aged man whom
she had confronted as they assembled tn,
scaffold: ''Go first that you may no
witness my death" and then mdauntet
her only the last act of a tragedy o
which her uncongenial marriage day wa
the first.
Good and genial character in a man
the very first requisite for p woman
bappv marriage. Mistake me not a
denreciative of worldly prosperities
There il a religious cant that woui
seem to represent poverty as virtue an
wealth as a crime. l can take yo
through thousand mansions wher
God is as much worshipcd as he eve
was in a cabin. The Gospel inculcate
the virtues which tend toward wealth
In the millennium we will all dwell Il
palaces and ride in chariots and sit a
sumptuous banquets and sleep under ric
embroideries and live 400 or 500 years
for, if according to the Bible in thos
times. a child shall die 100 years old, tn
average of human life will be at least fiv
centuries. The whole tendency of sin
toward poverty and the whole tendency c
righteousness is toward wealth. Godl
mess Is profitable for the life that now
as well as for that which is to come. n
Inventory can be made of the pictur
galleries consecrated to God. and {
sculpture and of libraries and pillare
magnificence and of parks and fountain
and gardens in the ownership of goo
men and women. The two most lord
residences in which l was ever que
had morning and evening prayer
all the employees present, and q
day long there was an air of cheerf1
piety in the conversation and behavio
lord Radstoch carried the Gospel to Il
Russian nobility. Lord Cavan and Lol
Cairns spent their vacation in evangelist
services. Lord Congleton became mi
sionary to Bagdad. And the Christ WI
was born in an eastern caravansary d
neain and again lived in palace.
1t is a grand thing to have plenty
of money, and horses that don't comp
,rou IN fake the dust Of every lnmherii