The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27

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wealth are 10 wife's soul rehabilitation
and mockery. When Abigail finds NAbal
her husband, beastly drunk as she comes
home from interceding for his fortuas and
lie, it was no alienation that the old
brute had possessions In Carmel and
"was very great, and had three thousand
sheep and thousand goats" and he the
worst goat among them. The animal in
his nature seized the soul IN its mouth ard
ian of with it.
Before things are right In this world
genteel villains are to be expurgated. In
stead 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 q masculine
estray will be as repugnant to good society
as feminine estray, and no coat-of.arms
or family emblazonry or epaulet can
pass q I.othnrio unchallenged among the
sanctities Of home life. By what Law Of
God or common sense is an Absalom
better than q Delilah, a Don Juan
better than a Messalina? The brush
that paints the one black must paint
the other black. But what spec.
tacle it was when last summer much OF
watering-placs society went wild with
enthusiasm over an unclean foreign dig
nitary whose name in both hemispheres
is synonym for profigacy, and prin-
cesses of American society from all parts
OF the land had him ride in their car
riages and sit at their table, though they
know him to be portable lazeratto, a
charnel house Of moral putrefaction, his
breath typhoid. his foot that of a satyr,
and his touch death. Here is an evil that
men can not stop, but women may. Keep
all such out of your parlors, have no rec
ognition for them in the street, and no
more think of allying your life and des-
tiny with theirs than 'gales from
Araby" would consent to pass the
honeymoon with an Egyptian plague.
All that money or social position bad
man brings to q woman in marriage is a
splendid despair, a gilded horror, bril-.
liant agony, prolonged death. and the
longer the martial 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
" ncEcS ocIOfc tu0 lcdSt was ObcIs tuC
bridegroom's tongue was thick and his
eye 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 CT
a ruined life and q lost eternity.
Woman, join not your right hand with
such a right hand. Accept from such an
one no jewel for finger or ear. lest that
sparkle Of precious stone turn out to be
the eye of basilisk; and let nos the ring
come on the finger Of your right hand
lest that ring turn out to be ofe link of a
chain that shall bind you in newer ending
captivity. In the name of God and
Heaven and home, in the name Of all time
and all eternity, l forbid the banns! Con.
sent not to Join one of the many regi-
ments of women who have married fer
worldly success, without regard to mora
character.
If you are ambitious. o woman, TO
noble affiancing, why not marry king,
And to that honor you are invited bv I'll.
monarch of Heaven and earth. And this
day a voice from the skies sounds forth:
GAS tho bridegroom rejoiceth over tae
bride so shall thy God ejoice over thea"
Let him put upon thee che ring of CHS
royal marriage. Here is an honor worth
reaching after. By repentance and faith
you may come into a marriage with the
Emperor of universal dominion, and you
may be an empress unto God forever, ard
reign with him in palaces that the cent.
uries can not crumble or cannonades de-
molish.
High worldly marriage Is not necessary
for xrop,orn ofo ann ;,,
order to your happiness. Cslibacy 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 have? But what you need. Q
woman. Is to be affiapced forever and
forever. and the banns of that marriage
am at this moment here and now ready
to publish. Let the angels Of Heaven
bend from their galleries of light to wit.
ness while I pronounce You one-a
loving God and . forgiven soul.
One Of the most stirring passage-
in history with which l am acquainted
tells us how Cleopatra. the exiled
Queen Of Egypt, won the sympathy OF
Julius Cesar, the conqueror, until he be.
came the bridegroom and she the bride.
Driven from her throne, she sailed away
on the Mediterranean sea in n 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 Cesar. the great General. Knowing
that she would not be permitted to land
or pass the guards on the way to C@sar's
palace, she laid upon the bottom of the
boat some shawls and scarfs and richly
dyed upholstery, and then Law down
upon them, and her friend wrapped
her in them, and she was
admitted ashore in this wrap
ping Of goods, which was announced as q
present for Cesar. This bundle was per.
mitted to pass the guards Of the gates of
the palace. and was pu. down at the feet
of the Roman General When the bundle
was unrolled there rose before Caesar one
whose courage, and Eeauty, and brill fancy
are the astonishment Of the ages. This
exile3 Queen Of Egypt told the story OF
her sorrows, and he promised her that she
should get back her throne in Egypt and
take the throne OF wifely dominion in his
own heart Afterward they made a
triumphal tour in a barge that the pict.
ures Of many art galleries have called
''Cieopatra's Barge" and that barge was
covered with silken awning, and its deck
was soft with luxuriant carpets, and the
oars were silver tipped. and the PROV was
gold mounted, and the air was redo'ent
with the spicsry 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 Cleopatra,
and that the one to wnom you may be
afIianced had none of the sins Of Cesar.
the conqueror. But 1t suggests to me
how You. q soal exiled from happiness and
peace. may find your way to the feet OF
the conqueror Of the earth and sky.
Though il NAV be dark night Of spirit ual
agitation in which you put out into the har.
Dor OF peace. you may sail. and when all
the wrappings Of fear ard doubt and sin