The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-16
DON'T MARRY FOR MONEY
TALMAGE UNMAsKs THE MISERY
THAT FOLLOWS.

Right in This World.
BNooKLYN, Jan. 15.-In the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this morning the Rev T. Dewitt
Talmage, ID. D., preached the second of a
series of sermons to the women of America,
with important hints to men. The subject
of the sermon was Marriage for Worldly
Success Without Regard to Moral Char
acter," and the text was from l. Samuel,
XIV, 9: "And there was man in Maon
whose possessions were in Carmel; and the
man was very great, and he had three
thousand sheep, and a thousand goats" DIR.
Talmage said:
My text introduces us to drunken bloat
of large property. Before the day of safety
deposits and government bonds and national
banks people had their investment in flocks
and herds, and this man, Nabal of the text,
had much of his possessions in live stock.
He came also of distinguished family and
had glorious Caleb for an ancestor. But
this descendant was a sneak, churl, a sot
and fool, One instance to Illustrate: 1t
was a wool-raising country, and at the time
of shearing a great feast was prepared for
the shearers; and David and his warriors,
who had in other days saved from destruc
tion the threshing floors of Nabal, sent to
him asking, in this time of plenty, for some
bread for their starving men. And Nabal
cried out: "Who is DavidF As though an
Englishman had said: "Who is Yelling
ton2n or a German should say: "Who is
Won MoltkeP or an American should say
"WhO is Washingtonp Nothing did Nabal
give to the starving men, and thatnight the
scoundrel lay dead drunk at home and the
Bible gives us full length picture OF him
sprawling and maudlin and helpless.
Now that was the man whom Abigail, the
lovely and gracious and good woman, mar
ried-a tuberose planted beside a thistle, a
palm branch 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 creaturel Well She no
doubt thought that it would be an honor to
be associated with an aristOcratic family,
and no one can deSpise a great name. Be
side this, wealth would come, and with it
chains of gold and mansions lighted by
swinging lamps of aromatic oil; and re-
sounding with the cheer of banqueters,
seated at tables laden with wines from the
richest vineyards, and fruits from ripest
orchards, and nuts threshed from foreign
woods, and meats smoking in plat
ters of gold, set on by slaves in
bright uniform. Before she plighted
her troth with this dissipated man shesome-
times said to herself: "How can | endure
him! 10 be associated for life with such a
debauchee, | cannot and will notv But
then again she said to herself: sit is time
was married, and this is a cold world to de-
pend on, and perhaps L might do worse, and
may be will make a sober man out of him,
and marriage is a lottery, anyhow" And
when one day this representative of a great
house presented himself in parenthess of
Sobriety and with an assumed geniality and
gallant.y of manner and with promises of
fidelity and kindness and self-abnegation, a
June morning smiled on a March squall,
and the great-souled woman surrendered
her happiness to the keeping of this in
famous son of fortune, whose possessions
were in Carmel; and the man was very
great, and he had three thousand sheep and
thousand goats.
Behold here a domestic tragedy repeated
every hour of every day all over Christen-
dom-marriage for worldly success without
regard to character. So Marie Jeanne
Phlipon, the daughter of the humble en-
graver of Paris became the famous Madame
Roland of history, the vivaciouS and bril-
liant girl united with the cold, formal mo-
notOnous man because he came of an affiu-
ent family of Amiens and had lordly blood
in his veins. The day whom through polit-
ical revolution this patriotic woman was
led to the scaffold, around which lay piles
of human heads that had fallen from the
ak, and she said to an aged man whom she
had comforted as they assembled the scaf
fold: "Go first, that you may not witness
my death" and then undaunted took her
turn to die. That day was TO her only the
last act of q tragedy of which her unconge-
nial marriage day was the first.
Good and genial character in a man. the
very first requisite for a woman's happy
marriage. Mistake me not as depreciative
of worldly prosperites. There is a religious
cant that would seem to represent poverty as
a virtue and wealth as a crime. I can take
you through a thousand mansions where
God is as much worshiped as He ever was
in a cabin. The Gospel inculcates the vir-
tues which tend toward wealth. In the
millennium we will all dwell in palaces and
ride in chariots and sit at sumptuous ban
quets and sleep under rich embroideries and
live four or five hundred years, fer, if ac-
according to the Bible, in those times q
child shall die hundred years old, the
average of human life will be at least five
centuries. The whole tendency of sin is to-
ward poverty, and the whole tendency of
Righteousness is toward wealth. Goodness
is profitable for the life that now is as well
as for that which is to come. No inventory
can be made OF the picture galleries conse-
Grated to God and of sculpture and of libra
and fountains and gardens in the owner
ship of good men and women. The two
most lordly residences in which
was ever guest had morning and evening
prayers, all the employees present, and all
day long there was an air of cheerful piety
in the conversation and behavior. Lord
Radstock carried the Gospel TO the Russian
nobility. Lord Cavan and Lord Cairns
spent their vacation in evangelistic services.
Lord Congleton became missionary to Bag
dad And the Christ who was born in an
Eastern caravansary has again and again
lived in palace.
1t is grand thing to have plenty of
money, aud horses that don't compel you to
take the dust of every numbering and lazy
vehicle; and books of history that give you
glimpse of all the past; and shelves of
poetry to which you may go and ask Mil
ton or Tennyson or Spencer or Tom Moore
or Robert Burns to step down and spend
an evening with you; and other shelves to
which you may go while you
feel disgusted with the shams of the
world, and ask Thackeray TO express
your chagrin, or Charles Dickens to expose
the Pecksniffianism, or Thomas Carlyle TO
thunder your indignation; or the other
shelves where the old gospel writers stand
ready to warn and cheer us while they open
doors into that city which is so bright the
MONDAY sun is abolished. There is no vir-
tue in owning a horse that takes four min
utes to go a mile il you can own one that
can go in a little over two minutes and a
half. no virtue in running into the teeth of