Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

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in confidence. Condign punishment is
apt to come upon them and they get paid
in their own coin. / could point you to
score whom society has let drop very
hard in return for their base traffic in
human hearts. As to such mon, they
walk around in their celibacy after their
hair is streaked with gray, and pretend.
ing they are naturally short-sighted
when their eyes are so old in sin that
they need the spectacles Of . septuagen.
arian, an eyeglass about No. 6. and think
they are bewitching in their stride and
overpowering in their glances, although
they are simply laughing.stocks for all
mankind, And it these base dealers in
human hearts be females they are left
after awhile severely alone, striy ing in .
very desperation Of agony Of cosmetics
to get back to the attractiveness they
had when they used to brag how
many masculine affections they had
slaughtered. Forsak IN of God and honest
men and good women, are sure to be all
such masculine and female trihsrs with
human and yet immortal affections. O
man, o woman, having plighted your
troth stick to it.
And here my idea widens and have to
say not only to those who have made
mistake in solemn promise Of marriage,
but to those who have already at the
altar been pronounced one when they are
two. or in diversity of tastes and likes
and dislikes, are neither one nor two, but
dozen, make the best you can of an aw-
| full mistake. And here let me answer let
tiers that come from every State of tue
| American Union, and from across the sea,
and are coming year after year from msn
and women who ara te critically allianccd
| and tied together in q hard knct,
q very hard knot. The let.
tiers run something like this: "Whnt
| ought to do; my husband is q drunkard."
''My wife is a gad-about and will not stay
at home" "My companion is ignorant
and hates books and 1 revel in them" II
| like music, and a piano sets my husband
crazy" IL am fond of social life and my
companion is a recluse." 81 am trying to
be good and my lifelong associate is very
bad. What shall l do?" My answer is,
| there are certain good reasons for divorce.
| nent. The Bible recognizes them. Good
society recognizes them. But it must he
| the very last resort, and only after all
| reasonable attempts ut reclamation and
adjustment have proved a dead failure.
When such attempts fail it Is generally
because of meddlesome outsiders, and
women tell the wronged wife how sho
ought to stand on her rights, and men tell
the wronged husband how he ought to
stand on his rir hts. And let husband and
wife in an unhappy marriage relation
stand punctliously on their rights and
there will be no readjustment, and only
one thing will be sure to them and that is
hell on earth.
If you are unhappily married. in most
cases advise you. make the best you can
of an awfully bad bargain. Do not pro.
ject our peculiarities more than is neces-
sary. Perhaps you may have some faults
of your own which the other party in the
marital alliance may have to suffer. You
are in the sams yoke. II you pull aside
the yoke will only twist your neck. Better
pull ahead. The world Is full of people
who made mistakes about many things,
and, among other things. about betrothal
and marriage, and yet have been toler-
ably happy and very useful in the
strength of God, aud by the grace prom
ised in every time of need If those who
seek it conquer the Instantaneous Cir
cumstances. am acquainted with lovely
women married 10 contemplate
men and genial men yoked with
termagants inspired with the devil And
yet under these disadvantages my friends
are useful and happy. God helps people in
other kinds of martyrdom and to sing in
the fame, and he will help you in your
lifelong misfortune.
Remember the patience of job What
wife he had! At time when he was one
great blotch of eruptions, and his prop
erty was destroyed by a tornado, and.
moro than all, bereavement had come and
the poor man needed all-wise counsel,
she advises him to go to cursing and
swearing. She wanted him to poultice
his boils with blasphemy. But he lived
right on through his marital disadvant-
ages, recovered his health and his fort.
une and raised a splendid family, and
the closing paragraph of the book Of Job
has such jub:lance that wonder people
do not oftener read it:
So the Lord blessed the latter end Of Job
more than his beginning; for he had 1900
sheep, and 5000 camels, and 10O) yoke o; oxen,
and 900 she asses. He had also se2en sons
and three daughters. And he called the name
Of the first, Jemima; and the name Of the Sec
ond, Kcza: and the name of the third, Keren-
happuch. And in all the land were no women
found so fair as the daughters Of job; and their
father gave them inheritance among their
brethren. After this lived Job 40 years, and
saw his sons and his sons sons, even four gen.
erations. So Job died, being old and full of
days.
Now, my badly.married friend Of either
sex, If Job could stand it by the help of
God, then you can stand it by the same
divine reinforcement. You have
other rel atoms, o, woman, beside the
wifely relation. If you are a mother,
train up your children for God and
Heaven. If you are member of .
church, help move on its enterprises.
You can get so much of the grace Of God
in your heart that all your home trinls
will seem Insignificant. How little differ
ence does ii make what your unrighteous
husband calls you, if God calls you his
child and you are an heiress Of whole
kingdoms beyond the sky?
immense yourself in some kind of cut |
side usefulness, something that will enlist
your prayers, your sympathies, your
hand, your needle, your voice. Get ycur |
heart on fire with love to God and the dis. |
enthrallment of the human race, and the |
troubles of your home will be hotted out |
in the glory of your consecrated life. I
cry out to you, o woman, as Paul exclaIrns |
in his letter to the Corinthians: What |
knowest Cnous " WHO, Wnetner tnou
shalt save thy husband? And il you can |
not save him you can help in the gran Ter, |
mlghtier enterprise of helping save the
world. Out of the awful mistake of your |
marriage rise into the sublimest life of
self. sacrifice for God and suffering hu- |
manity. Instead of settling down to
NOPE over your domestic wees, enlist |
your energies for the wMli's redcDap.
ton.