The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-27
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OF decent society requires a good woman
to remain. Alas for these ducal country
seatsl They on q large scale illustrate
what on smaller scale may be seon in
many places, that without moral charac-
ter in a husband all the accessories of
wealth are to a wife's soul tantalization
and mockery. When Abigail finds Nabal.
her Usband, beastly drunk as she comes
homo from interceding for his fortune and
life, Il yvas no alleviation that the old
brute had possessions in Carmel, aud
"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 and
ian Off 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 a masculine
estray viii be as repugnant to good society
feminine estray, and no Goa t-of-arms
or family emblazonry or epaulet can
pass a LOthario unchallenged among the
sanctities of home lifes By what law of
God or common sense is an Absalom
better than Delilah, Don Juan
better than a MessalinaP The brush
that paints the one black must paint
the other black. But what a spec
tacle it was when last summer much of
watering-place society went wild with
enthusiasm over an uncean foreign dig
nitary whose name in both hemispheres
is a synonym for pronigacy, 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 a typhoid, his foot that of 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 q bad
man brings TO woman I'm marriage Is
splen did despair, gilded horror, brill
liant agony, prolonged death, and the
longer the marital 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
where, before the feast was over, the
bridegroom's tongue was thick and his
eye CLASSY and his step a stagger, as he
clicked glasses with jolly comrades, ali
going with lightning limited express train
to the fatal crash over the embankment Of
q ruined life and a lost eternity.
Woman, join not your right hand with
such right hand. Accept from such an
one no jewel for finger or ear, lest that
sparkle of precious stone turn out to be
the eve of bRsilisk; and lot not the ring
come on the finger OF your right hand,
lest that ring turn out to be one link Of
chain that shall bind you in never ending
captivity. In the name Of God and
Heaven and home, in the name Of all time
and all eternity, forbid the bannsl Con-
sent not TO join one of the many regi-
ments of women who have married for
worldly success, without regard 90 moral
character.
If You are ambitious, o woman, for
noble Rffiancing, why not marry a kinRf
| And to that honor you are invited by the
monarch of Heaven and earth. And this
| day a voice from the skies sounds forth /:
Gas the bridegroom rejoiceth over the
bride so shall thy God re joice over thee"
Let him put upon thee tho ring OF this
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, and
reign with him in palaces that the cent.
uries can not crumble or caunonndes de-
| molish.
High worldly marriage is not necessary
| for women, or marriage Of any kind, "
order to your happiness. Celibaoy 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 have2 But what you need, o
/ woman, is to be affianced forever and
| forever, aud 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 / pronounce you one-a
/ loving God and a forgiven soul.
One of the most stirring passages
in history with which / am acquainted
] tells us how Cleopatra, tho exiled
! Queen Of Egypt, won the sympathy Of
| julius Cesar, the conqueror, until no be.
| came the bridegroom and she the bride.
/ Driven from her throne, she sailed away
on the Mediterranean sea in storm, and
when the large ship anchored she put out
/ with one womanly friend in "a small boat
until she arrived at Alexandria, whore
was Cesar. the great General. Knowing
! that she would not be permitted 60 land
| or pass the guards on the way 10 Coesai' 3
| palace, she laid upon the bottom Of the
| boat some shawls and scarfs and richly
dyed upholstery, and then lay down
upon them, and her friend wrapped
her in them, and she was
admitted ashore in this wrnp.
| ping of goods, which was announced az a
present for Caesar. This bundle was per-
mtted TO pass the guards Of the gates Of
the palace and was put down &c the feet
/ Of the Roman General. When the bundle
| was unrolled there rose before Cesar one
whose courage, and beauty, and brill fancy
| are the astonishment Of the ages. This
| exiled 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 ia hiH
own heart. Afterward they made 8,
| triumphal tour in a barge that the pict'
ures Of many art galleries have called
| "Cleopatra's Barge" and that barge wall
| covered with silken awning, and It's deck
was soft with luxuriant carpets, and thn
oars were silver tipped, and tho prov wag
| gold mounted, and the air wsls redoleE,t
| with the spicery OF tropical gardens and
resonant with the music that made the
| night glad as the day. You may reioicts
woman, that you are not a Cle0patrl,
and that tho one TO whom yon may le
| afflnnced had none OF the sins Of Cesar,
| the conqueror. But 10 suggests 20 nae
how you, a soul exiled from happiness aud
! peace, may find your way to the feet oi
the conquerOr Of the earth and sky
| Though 10 may be a dark night of spir tunl
| agitation in which you put out into the haif.
Dor Of peace, YOu may sail, aud when ELL
the wrappIngs Of fear and doubt and sin
shall be removed. you VIII be found ht tho
feet OF Him who will put you on thrcaa
/ 70 be acknowledged as His in he day.
i When all the silver trumpetB OF the sky
/ shall proclaim: "Behold the bridegroom
coneth, " aud IN a barge Of light you saii
with Him the river whose source ia the
foot Of the throne. and whose mouth iS n
the sea Of glass mingled with Gre.
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Weakness and Follies.