Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-16
WORLDLY MARRIAGES.
Talmage, the Eloquent, Advises as to
Marriages Made Without Regard
to Moral Character.
A Tube- REESE Planted Beside Thistle,
a Palm Branch TwinPd Into
Wreath OF Night MADE.
uassr. Thrown up in Horror of Such E
rn,or. INIT Worse Nuptial Ties are
Made Every Day.
TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.


Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning the
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage, ID, preached
the second of the series of sermons TO the
women of America, with important hints
70 men. The subject OF the sermon was,
"Msrrisge for Worldly Success Without
R gard TO Moral Character" and the
text was from 1. Samuel, XIV. 2: "And
there WAS man in Maop, whose posses
sions were In Carmel: and the man WAS
very great, and be had 5000 sheep ana
1000 gcats'' DR.. T8lmage said:
MY text introduces us to drunken
bIost of large property. Before the day
of safety deposits and government bonds
and national banks, people had their in
vestments in 1ocks and herds, and
this man, Naosl, Of the tex, h1d
much Of his possessions In
live stock. He came also OF q disiin-
guisheG family and hsd glorious Caleb
Tor an ancestor. But this descendant
was sneak, caur', sot and fool.
One instance to illustrate: Il was D
wool-rAising country and al the time of
shearing @ great feast was prepared for
the shearers; ana David ana his warriors
who had in other days saved from de-
sent 10 him asking, in this time Of plenty,
for some bread for their starving men.
And N.bal cried out: "Wao is DEvid?"
As though an EGglisbmsn had said:
"Who IS Wellington" or q German
should say: "Who is Won Moltke?" or
IL American should say: "Wno is Wash
ingtone" Nothing did N4bsl give to the
starving men, and that night the scoun-
drel IaY dead drunk ct nome, and the
Bible gives US full length picture Of
nm sprs wiling ano maudlin and helpless.
Now that was the man wlom Abigail,
the lovely and gracious and good woman,
married. tuberose planted beside q
thistle, palm branch twined into 8
wreath OF deadly nightshade. Surely
that was not Que Of the ms'ches made in
heaven. We throw up our hands in hor-
ror at that wedding. How did she ever
consent TO link her destinies with such q
cresture? Well, she no doubt thought
that it would be sn honor to be sssocl-
ated with an aristocretic family, and no
one can despise great name. Beside
this, wealth would come aud with IL
chains Of gold and mansions lighted by
swinging lamps CT aromatic oil, and re-
sounding with the cheer Of bkEqueters
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
PLATES OF GOLD
set on by slaves in bright uniform, Be-
tore she plighted her troth with this dis
sipsted man she sometimes said to her
self: GLOW can endure him, To be as
ISOLATED for lite with such debauchee l
cannot and viii not!" But then sgain
she said to herself: at is time l wSs
married, and this is O cold world to de-
pend on, and perhaps l might do worse,
and may be / will make q SO Der man out
Of him, and marriage is q lottery any
how" And when one day this represent
ative of grea. house presented himself
IN 8 parenthesis Of sObriety and with an
assumed geniality and gallantry of man
ner, and with promises Of fidelity, and
kindness, and seIf-sbue CATION, June
morning smiled on March squat, and
the great-souled woman surrendered her
happiness to the keeping OF this Infamous
son of fortune, whose possessions were
in Carmel; aud the man was very great,
and he had 1900 sheep and 1000 goats.
Behold here domestic tragedy re-
peGted every hour Of the day sll over
Chrlstendom-mnrrisge for worldly sue
cess without regard TO character. So
Marie j sanne Phiipon, the daughter of
the humble engraver Of FariF, became the
famous Madame Roland of history, the
vivacious and brilliant girl united with
the cold, formal, monotonous man be-
Cause he came of so g I'll lent family Of
Amiens and had lordly blood in his veins.
The day when through political revolu-
ton this patriotic woman WAS led to the
scaffold, around which lay piles of human
heads that had fallen from the axe, and
she said TO an aged man whom she had
comforted on the way TO the scsffold:
go first that you may not witness my
DEATH" and then undaunted took her
turn TO die-that dsy was to her only the
last act OF d tragedy o. which her uncon
genial marriage day WAS the first.
Good and genial character IN msn,
the very first requisite for woman's
hsppY marriage. Mistake me not as de-
preciative of worldly properties. There
is 8 religious cant that would seem to
represent poverty as virtue and wealth
SIS crime. l can take you through
thousand mansions where God is as much
worshipped as He ever was in cabin.
The gospel iIculcates the virtues which
tend toward wealth. In the millennium
we will all dwell In palaces and ride In
chsriots and sit at sulnptuous baEquets
aud sleep under rich embroideries and
live fouc or five hundred years, for If
according to the Bible in those times
child shall die hundred years old. the
average of human life will be at least five
centuries. The whole tendency Of sin is
toward poverty and the whole tendency
Of righteousness is toward wealth. God
illness Is profitable for the life thst now is
Is well IS for that which is to come. No
inventory can be made Of the picture
galleries consecrated to God snd OF sculp-
ture and OF libraries and pillared mag
nificence and of
PARKS AND f 0UNTAINS
and gardens in the ownership CT good
men and women. The two most lordly
residences in which | WAS ever guest
hsd morning and evening prayers, al the
employees present, and all day long there
was eu air of cheerful piety in the CONVEX
sstion and behavior. Lord Radstock car
ried the gospel to the Russian nobility.
Lord Cavan and Lord Cairns spent their
vacation in evangelistic services, Lord
CongIeton became missionary to Bagdsd.
And the Christ who was born in an east
ern carsvansarY has sgain and sgsin lived
in palsce.
1t is grand thing to have plenty OF
AL M