Milford chronicle., 1888-01-20

or common sense is an Absalom better than a
Delilah, Don Juan better than Messalinal
The brush that paints the one black must
paint the other black. But what a spectacle
it was when last summer much Of watering
place. society went wild with enthusiasm
over an unclean foreign dignitary, whose
name in both hemispheres is a synonym for
proiligacy, and princesses of American society
from all parts Of the land had him ride in
their carriages and sit at their tables, though
they knew him to be portable lazaretto, 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 cannot stop but women may. Keep all
such out Of your parlors, haFe no recognition
for them in the street, and no more think Of
allying your life and destiny with theirs than
''gales from Araby'' would consent TO pass
the honeymoon with an Egyptian plague.
All that money or social position bad man
brings to woman in marriage is a splendid
despair, gilded horror, a brilliant agony, a
prolonged death, and the longer the marital
union lasts the more evident will be the fact
that she might better never have been born.
Yetyou and have been at brilliant weddings,
groom's tongue was thick, and his eye CLASSY,
and his step stagger as he clicked glasses
with jolly comrades, all going with lightning
limited express train to the fatal crash over
the embanllnent of ruined life and lost
eternity.
Woman, join not your right hand with
such q right hand Accept from such en- one
no jewel for finger or ear lest that sparkle Of
aFl %. Nt,a .F n
basilisk, and let not the ring come on tho
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 l forbid the bansl
Consent not to join one of the many regi-
ments Of women who have married for
worldly success without regard to moral
character
If you are ambitious, oh woman, for noble
afiiancing, why not marry a kings And TO
that honor you are invited by the monarch
Of heaven and earth, and this day voice
from the skies sounds forth: ''As the bride
groom rejoiceth over the bride so shall thy
God rejoice over theon Let Him put upon
thee the ring of this royal marriage Here is
an honor worth reaching after. By repent
ance and faith you may come into a marriage
with the emperor pf universal dominion, and
you may be an empress unto God forever,
and reign with him in palaces that the CEN
turies cannot erumhle or cannonades de
molish
High worldly marriage is not necessary for
woman, or marriage Of any kind in order to
your happiness. Celibacy 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 havel
But what you need, oh woman, is to be afi-
anced forever and forever, and the bands OF
that marriage 1 am this moment here and
now ready to publish. Let the angels OF
heaven bend from their galleries of light to
witness'while I pronounce you One-a loving
God and forgiven soul One of the most
stirring passages in history with which am
acquainted tells US how Cleopatra, the exiled
queen of Egypt, won the sympathies Of Julius
Cesar, the conqueror, until he became tbs
( bridegroom and she the DIide. Driven from
her throne, she sailed away on the Mediter
ranean sea in a storm, and when the larg,
ship anchored she put out with one womanly
/ friend in a small boat until she arrived a
/ Alexandria, where was Cesar, the great gen
eral, Knowing that she would not be per
4 mitted to land or pass the guards on the way
! to Cesars palace, she laid upon the bottom
/ Of the boat some shawls and scarfs and richly
l dyed upholstery, and then lay down upol
them, and her friend wrapped her in then
and she was admitted ashore in this wrap
| ping of goods, which was announced as
present for Cesar. This bundle was permit
ted to pass the guards Of the gates Of tn
palace and was put down at the feet of tn
Roman general, When the bundle was un
rolled there rose before Cesar one who's
courage and beauty and brilliancy are th
astonishment Of the ages. This exiled quee
Of Egypt told the story Of her sorrows, an
he promised her that she should get back he
throne in Egypt and take the throne Of wifel
) dominion in his own heart. Afterward the
mhiFsz triumphal tour in a barge that tn
pictures of many art galleries have Gale
"Cleopatra's Barge and that barge was coy
cred with silken awning, and its deck wa
soft with luxuriant carpets, and the oaI
were silver tipped, and the PROV was gol
mounted, and the air was redolent with th
Picery Of tropical gardens and resonan
with the music that made the night glad q
the day. You may rejoice, oh woman, that yo
ore not a Cleopatra, and that tho one {
whom You may be affianced had none Of tn
sins of Cesar, the conquerer. But it suggest
to me how you, a sonl exiled from happine;
and peace, may find your way to the feet c
the conqueror Of earth and sky. Though
may be dark night of spiritual agitation
which you put out into the harbor Of peaC
you may sail, and when all the wrappihgs {
fear and doubt and sin shall be removed 20
will be found at tho feet of Him who will pr
you ON a throne to be acknowledged as H
, in the day when all the silver trumpets {
the sky shall proclaim, "Behold the brig
groom cometh," and in barge of light yo
sail with him the river whose source is IL
tho foot of the throne and whose mouth is {
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