The Brookhaven leader., 1888-01-19


stop now and spend an evening with
you. and other shelves TO whicn You may
go while YOU feel disgusted with the
shame of the world, and ask Thackeray
to express your chagrin, or Charles
Dickens to express the Pecksniffianism,
or Thomas Carlyle to thunder your in
dignation; or the other shelves where
the old gospel writers stand ready to
warn and cheer us willie they open doors
into that city which is so bright the
MONDAY sun is abolished. There
Is no virtue in owning horse
that takes four minutes to go a
mile, if you can own one that can
go in little over two minutes and a
half; no virtue i'll running into the teeth
OF northeast wind with thin apparel, if
you can afford furs; no virtue in being
poor when you can honestly be rich.
There are names OF, men and women
that ] have only to mention, and they
suggest not only wealth, but religion and
generosity and philanthropy, such as
Amos Lawrence, James Lennox, Peter
Cooper, William E. Dodge, Shaftesbury,
Miss Wolfe and Mrs. Astor. A recent
writer says that of fifty leading business
men in one of our Eastern cities, and of
The fifty leading business men Of one of
our Western cities, three fourths of them
are Christians. The fact is, that about all
the brain and the business genius is on
the side Of religion. Infdelity is incipient
insanity. All infidels are cranks. Many
of them talk brightly, but you soon find
that i'll their mental machinery there is
screw loose. When they are not lrcturing
against Christianity they are sitting in
barrooms squirting tobacco juice, and
when they get mad swear till the place
Is ulphurous. They only talk to keep
their courage up, and at best will feel
like the intidel who begged to be buried
with his Christian wife and daughter,
and when asked why he wanted such
ton of the good, as some folks say there
will be, my Christian wife and daughter
will somehow get me up and take me
along with them"
Man may pretend to despise religion,
but they are rank hyprocrites. The sea
captain was right when he came up to
the village on the sea coast and insisted
on paying SO to the church, although he
did not attend himself. When asked his
reason, he said that he had been in the
habit Of carrying cargoes of oysters and
CLANS from that place, and he found
since that church was built the people
were n4ore honest than they used to be,
for before tie church was built he often
found the load, when he came to count
il, q thousand CLAIMS short. Yes. God
illness ia profitable for both worlds. Most
of the great, honest, permanent worldly
successes are by those who reverence
God aud the Bible. But what | do say
Is. THAI if 4 man have nothing bat social
position and financial resources, n woman
who put, her happiness by marriage in
his hand rc-cnaCts the folly Of Abigail
when she accepted disagreeable Nabal,
''whose possessions were in Carmel. and
the man was very great, and lie had
three thousand sheep and thousand
goats.
If there be good moral character ac-
by afliuent circumstances l
you. If not, let the morn
ing lark fly clear of the Rocky mountain
eagle. The sacrifice of woman on the
altar of social and financial expectation
is cruel and stupendOus. l sketch you a
scene you have more than once wit
messed. A comfortable home with moth
ing moro than ordinary surroundings, but
an attractive daughter carefully and
Christianly reared. From the outside
world comes in man with nothing but
money. unless you count profanity and
selfishness and fondness for champagne
and general recklessness as a part of his
Possession. He has his coat collar turned
up when there is no chill in the air, but
because it gives him an air of abandon,
and eyeglass, not because he is near
sighted, but because it gives classical ap-
pearance, and with an attire somewhat
loud, a cane thick enough to be the
club of Hercules and clutched at
the middle. his conversation interlarded
with French phrases inaccurately pro-
nounced, and sweep of manner indicat-
ing that he was not born like most
folks, but terrestrially landed. BY arts
learned of the devil he insinuates himself
into the affections of the daughter of a
Christian home. All the kindred con-
graduates her on the almost supernat-
ural prospects. Reports come in that the
young man is fast in his habits, that he
has broken several young hearts and that
he isymean and selfish and cruel. But
all this is covered up with the fact that
he has several houses in his own name,
and has large deposits at the bank. and,
more than all, has father worth many
hundred thousand dollars and very feeble
in health and may any day drop off, and
this is the only son, and round dollar
held close to ones eye is large enough to
shut out a great desert, and how much
more will several bushels of dollars shut
out.
The marriage day comes and goes.
The wedding ring was costly enough and
the orange blossoms fragrant enough and
The benediction solemn enough and the
wedding march stirring enough. And
the audience shed tears of sympathetic
gladness, supposing that the craft con-
Lainins the two has sailed of on placid
lake, although God knows that they are
on Dead sea, its waters brackish
with tears and CHASTITY with ghastly
faces of despair floating to the surface
md then going down. There they are,
he newly married pair in their new
nome. He turns out to be tyrant. Her
will is nothing. his will everything.
Lavish of money for his own pleasure,
he begrudges her the pennies he pinches
put into her trembling palm. Instead of
The Kind words she left behind in
ler former home, now there are
complaints and fault findings and
curses. He is the master and she the
slave. The worst villain on earth is the
nan who, having captured woman
from her fathers house and after the
bath of the marriage altar has been pro-