Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-28
The Domestic Tragedies That lIe'
sult From ~Ll-Advised
Marriages.
Moral Character and Genial Dis.
position the Requisite For
Uappy Marriages.
MARRIAGE.

MARRIAGE.
BROOKLYS, Jan. t5.-ln the Brooklyn
tabernacle this morning the Rev. T.. De
Witt Taimage, ID. preached The second
Of The series Of Sermon TO the women OF
America. with important hints to men.
The subject OF the sermon was Marriage
for Worldly Success Without Regard to
Moral Character, and thc text VAS from
! Samuel. xvii;
"And there was n man In Maon, whose pos
sessions were in Carmel; and the man was
very great, and he had three thousand
shrcp, ana a thousand goats
Or. Talmago said:
Nv text introducsts Us TO q drunken
bloat of large property. Before the day
Of safety deposits and government bonds
and national banks, people had their in
vcstment in flOCks and herds, and this
man. Nabal, of the text, had much of his
possessions in live stock. He came also
of a distinguished family and had glori-
Gus Caleb for an ancestor But this de-
scCndant was n sneak, q churl. IA sot and
a fool. One instance TO Illustrate: 1t
was a wool-raising country and at the
IIlt VI Nlltdl H. a %iNhb 'iAN a. lb'
pared for the shcarcrs; and David and his
warriors, who had in other days saved
from destruction the thrcshing floors of
Nahal, sent to him asking, in this time of
plenty, for some bread for their starving
men. And Nabal cried out: who is
David?" AS though an Englishman had
said: "Who is Wellington" or n Ger
man should say: "Who is Won Moltke?'
or an American should say: "Who is
Washington?' Nothing did Nabal give
90 the starving men, and that night the
%scoundrcl lay dead drunk at home, and
the Bible gives us a full length picture Of
him sprawling and maudlin and helpless.
A MATCH O. MADE IN HEAvEN
Now that was the man whom Abigail,
the lovely and gracious and good woman,
married-a tubcrose planted beside a
palm branch twincd into a wreath of
deadly nightshadc. Surely that was not
one of the matches made in heaven. We
threw lp our hands in horror at that
wedding. How did she ever consent to
link her destinics with such "a creature.
Vel, she no doubt thought hat il would
he an honor TO be associated with an ar
issocratiC family and no one can dcspiso
n great name. Beside this wealth would
1Illlt tllf WIN 4 III VI Epi'i tiih 'i"f
sions lighted by swinging lamps Of AFRO.
matte oil, and resounding with the cheer
OF banuuctcrs seated at the table laden
with wines from the richest vineyards
and fruits from orchards and nuts thrcsh-
ed from foreign woods and meats smoking
in pla,ters Of gold set on by slaves in
bright uniform. Before she plightcd her
troth with this dissipatcd man she some.
times said TO herself: How can ! endure
him. TO be associated for life with such
a dcbauchce | cannot and will not But
then again she said to herself; 1T i
time | was married, and this is a cold
world to depend on and perhaps | might
do worse and may be ! will make IA sober
man out of him and marriage is a lottery
anyhow Aud when one day this rep
rcsantativc of a great house presented
himself IN a parenthcsis Of sobriety and
with an assumed geniality and gallantry
of manner and with promises Of tidc ity
and Kindness and self abnegation, a June
morning smiled on a March squall. and
the great souled woman surrendered hei
happiness TO the keeping Of this infamous
son Of f%oftune, whose possessions we're II
Carmel; and the man was very great. and
he had three thousand sheep, and athous'
and goats.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Behold here u domestic tragedy repeat
ed every hour Of every day all Over
Christrndom-marriage for worldly sue,
ccss without regard to character. Sc
Marie Jeanne Ph!ipon,% the daughter OF
the humble cngravcr OF Paris became the
famous Madame Roland &C history. the
vivacious and brilliant girl united with
the cold. formal, mOnotonous man because
he came of an atlluent family Of AmicnS
and had lotaly blood in his veins. The
tlay when through political revocation
this patriotic woman was led to the seat.
fold around which lay piles Of humar
hcads that had fallen from the axe. anc
she said TO an aged man whom she hat
comfortcd rs they assembled the scaflold
go first that you may not witness m
death" and then undauntcd took hcl
turn 10 dic-that day was to her only th'
last act Of a tragedy Of which her uncon
genial marriage day was the first.
PIE REQUISITE OR HAPPINESS.
Good and genial character in n man II
the very first requisite for a woman
happy marriage. Mistake me not az de
prccia.ive Of worldly properties. There
is n religious cant that would seem to rep
resent poverty "a a virtue and wealth Al
a crime. | can take you through n thou
sand mansion. where God is rs much
worshippcd IA lie ever was IN a cabin
The Gospel inculcatcs the virtues which
tend toward wealth. In the millennium
we will AL dwell, in palaces and ride il
ehario,s and sit at sumptuous hanqnet'
and sleep under rich cmbroidcries ant
live four or five hundred years, for, i
according to the Bible in those times
child shall die n hundred years old, TIL
average Of human life will DO at least five
centuries. The whole tendency Of sin i
toward poverty and the whole tcndenc,
of Righteousness is toward wealth. God
Illness is profitable for the life that now j
as well ~ for that which Is 10 come. ~
inventory can he made Of the picture 81!
lerics cons"Crated 10 God and OF scuip
turc and of libraries and pillarrd magnifi
scnc. and of parks and fountains ant