Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1888-09-07
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were in Carmel, and the man was very great. ant
he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats
\ sam. 25;2.
My text introduces us to a drunken
bloat Of large property before the
day of safety deposits and government
bonds and national banks, people had
their investment in docks and herds,
and this man, Nabal, of the text, had
much of his possessions in live stock.
He came also of distinguished family,
and he had glorious Caleb for an an
cestor But this descendant was a
sneak, ehurl, sot and fool.
Now that was the man whom Abb
gail, the lovely and gracious and good
woman, married. tuberose planted
beside thistle, palm -braneh twined
into wreath of deadly nightshade.
Surely that was not one of the matches
made in heaven. We throw up our
hands in horror at that wedding. How
did she ever consent to link her desti-
| MES with such a creature. Well, she
no doubt thought that it wonId be an
honor to be associated with an aristo-
cratic family; and no one can despise
great name. Beside this, wealth would
come, and with it chains of gold, and
mansions lighted by swinging lamps of
aromatic oil, and resounding with the
cheer of banquetors, seated at tables
laden with wines from the richest vine
yards and fruits from ripest orchards,
and nuts threshed from foreign woods,
and meats smoking in platters of gold,
set on by slaves in bright uniform.
Before she plighted her troth with.
this dissipated man, she sometimes said
to herself, "How can | endure himl
To be associated for life with such a
| debauchee cannot and will mott"
But then again she said to herself, at
Is time l was married, and this is
cold world to depend on, and perhaps
L might do worse, and maybe | will
make a sober man out of him, and
marriage isa lottery, anyhow" And
when, one day, this representative of
great house presented himself in
parenthesls of sobrietv, and with an
assumed geniality and gallantry of
manner, and with promises of fidelity
and kindness and salf abnegatien, a
June morning smiled on March squall
and the great souled woman surren
dered her happiness to the keeping of
this infamous son of fortune, whose
possessions we're In Carmel
Behold here a domestic tragedy re
peated every hour of every day. all
over Christendom-m -marriage for world.
ly success, without regard to character.
Good and genial character in man
Is the very first requisite for woman's
happy marriage. Mistake me not as
depretiative of worldly properties,
There is religious cant shat would
seem to represent poverty as virtue,
and wealth as crime. can take you
through thousand mansions. where
God is as much worshipeI rs lie ever
was in a cabin. The gospel incuIeates
the virtues which tend toward wealth
| The whole tendency Of sin is toward
poverty. and the whole tendency of
righteousness is toward wealth. Cod
llness is profitable for the life that now
is, as well as for that which is to come.
No inventory can he made of the pic
ture galleries consecrated to God, and
fof sculpture and of Libraries, and pillard
magniicenceNand of parks and foun-
tains and gardens in the ownership of
good men and women The two most
lordly residences in which | was ever
a guest, had morning and evening
prayers, all the employees present, and
all day lsng there was an air of cheer.
| full piety in the conversation and be
havior. Lord Radstock carried The
gospel to the Russian nobility. Lord
Cavan and Lord Cairns pent their va
cation in evaneslistic services. Lord
| Congleton became missionary to Bag
dad. And the Christ who was born in
an Eastern caravansary has lived in a
palace.
1t is grand thing to have plenty Of
money, and horses that don't compel
you to take the dust of every lamber.
ing and lazy vehicle; and books of his
tory that give You glimpse of all the
past; and shelves of poetry to which
| you may go and ask Milton or Tenny-
son or Spencer or Tom Moore or Rob
ert Burns to step down and spend an
evening with you; and other shelves to
which you may 60 while you feel dis
gusted with the shames of the world
and ask Thackeray to express youi
chAgl in, or Charles Dickens to expose
Pecksnifiianism, or Thomas Carlyle tc
) thunder your indigna ton; or the othel
shelves where the oil gospel wrier'
stand ready to warn and cheer us
while they open doors into that Cit,
which is so bright the MONDAY sun !
abolished
There s no virtue in owning hors
that takes four minutes to go a mile
if you can own one that can go in Ii,
tie over two minutes aud half; n
virtue in running into the teeth of
northeast vind with thin apparel
yon can afford furs; no virtue in bein
poor when you can honestly be rich.
The fact is, that about all the brai
and the busiuess gcaius is on the sid
Of religion.
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