The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-01-20

comrades. all going with lightning limited e1'
nress train to the fatal crash over the embank-
ment of ruined life and lost eternity.
Woman ioin not your right hand with such
q rioht 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
hssilisk. and let not the ring come on the nh-
ger of your right hand, lest that ring turn OUT
TO be the one link of chain that snalI olhu
YOU in never-ending captivity. In the name vi
God and heaven and home, in the name OF all
time and all eternity, forbid the bans! Lon.
sent not to join one of the many regiments OF
women who have married for worldly success
without regard to moral character
If you are ambitious, D woman. 1or
noble afancng That why honor not Won MARRY ars in
vited by the Monarch of heaven and earth,
and this dav a voice from the skies SOUNDS
forth: "As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the
bride so shall thy God rejoice over thee Let
him put upon thee the ring OF this Toyal mar
riage. Here is an honor worth reaching after
By repentance and faith you may come into
marriage with the Emperor of universal DO
minon, and you may be an Empress unto God
forever and reign with him IN palaces mat
the centuries cannot crumble or cannonadeS
demOlisb.
High worldly marriage is not necessary for
woman or marriage of any kind in order to
YOUR happiness. Celbacy has been honOred
by the best being that ever lived ana MS
greatest apostle, Christ and Paul. what
higher honor could single life on earth have!
But what YOU need, 0 woman, is to be atf-
anced forever and forever and the banns OF
that marriage / am this moment here and now
ready to publish. Let the angels OF heaven
bend from their galleries of light to witness
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, the exalted Queen OF
Egypt won the sympathies of julius Caesar
the cOnqueror, until he became the bride
groom and she the bride. Driven from her
throne. she sailed away on the Mediterranean
Sea in a storm, and when the large ship an
chOred she put out with one womanly friend
in a small boat until she arrived at Alexan-
dria, where was Caesar the great general.
Knowing that she would not be permitted TO
land or pass the guards on the way to Caesars
palace. she laid upon the bottom of the boat
some shawls and scarfs and richly dyed up
hOsterv, and then lay down upon them, and
her friend wrapped her in them and she was
admitted ashore in this wrapping of goods,
which was announced as pres
ent for Caesar. This bundle was
permitted to pass the guards of the gates of
the palace and was put down at the feet of the
Roman general When the bundle was I'M
rolled there rose before Caesar one whose cOur-
age and beauty and brilliancy are the aston
ishment of the ages. This exiled queen of
Egypt told the story of her sorrows, and he
| promised her that she should have back her
throne in Egypt and take the throne of wifey
dominion in his own heart Afterward, they
made a triumphal tour in barge that the
pictures of many art galleries have called
"CleOpatra's Barge" and that barge was Gov
cred with silken awning, and its deck was soft
with luxuriant carpets, and the oars were sill
ver-tipped, and the PROV was gold mounted,
and the air was redolent with the spicery Of
tropical gardens and resonant with the music
that made the night glad as the dav. You
may rejoice, o woman, that you are not Gle
Opatra and that the one to whom YOU may be
atfianced had none of the sins of Caesar, the
conqueror But it suggests to me how you,
soul exiled from happiness and peace, may
find your way to the feet of the conqueror of
earth and sky. Though it may be dark night
of spiritual agitation in which you put out
into the harbor of peace you may sail, and
when all the wrappings of fear and doubt and
sin shall be removed you will he found at the
feet of Him who will put you on throne to be
acknowledged as His in the day when all the
silver trumpets of the sky shall proclaim
''Behold the bridegroom cometh," and in
barge of light you sail with Him the river
whose mouth is at the sea of glass mingled
with fire.