The Russellville Democrat., 1888-01-26


 nitarv whose name in both hemA Apheres Is a synonym for profligacy. anA prin- cesses of American society from all parts of inc land had him ride in their car riages and sit at thcr table, though niey know him to be Dc able lazeratto, charnel house of moral ID 'refaction, hia breath a typhoid, his foot tiaat of Q satyr, and his touch death. Here is an evil that men can not stop, but women may. Keep all such out of your parlors, have no rec ognition for them in the street, and no
 more think of allying your life and des- tiny with theirs than 'gales from Arabvo would consent to pass the honeymoon with an Egyptian plague. All that money or social position q bad man brings to woman in marriage Is splen did despair, e gilded horror, brii- liant agony, prolonged death, and the longer the marital union lasts the more ev ident will be the fact that she might
 better never have been born. Yet you and have been at brilliant weddings
 where, before the feast was over, the
 bridegroom's tongue was thick and ms
 eye glassy and his step q stagger, as he clicked glasses with jolly comrades, all going with lightning limited express train
 to the fatal crash over the embankment of
 ruined life and lost eternity.
 Woman, join not your right hand with
 such a right 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 basilisk; and let not She ring
 come on the finger of your right hand, lest that ring turn out to be one liuk of q 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, I forbid the bannsl Con- sent 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, o woman, for
 noble affiancing, why not marry kin2Y And to that honor you are invited by the monarch of Heaven and earth. And this day a voice from the skies sounds forth: : ''As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the | bride SO shall thy God joice over thee" Let him put upon thee the ring of this | royal marriage. Here is an honor worth 1 reaching after. By repentance and faith you may come into marriage with the Emperor of universal dominion, and you | may be an empress unto God forever, and reign with him in palaces that the cent
  | molish.
 | High worldly marriage is not necessary 1 for women, or marriage of any kind, in 1 order to your happiness. Celibacy has been honored by the best being that ever l lived and his greatest apostle-Christ and Paul. What higher honor could single life on earth have? But what you need, 0 | woman is to be affiapced forever and | <,f hot I am at this moment here and now ready | to publish. Let the angels of Heaven bend from their galleries of light to wit ! ness while pronounce you one--a | loving God and a forgiven soul. | One of the most stirring passages l in history with which l am acquainted 1 tells us how Cleopatra, the exiled | Queen of Egypt, won the sympathy of l Julius Caesar, the conqueror, until he be- l came the bridegroom and she the bride. | Driven from her throne, she sailed away | on the Mediterranean sea in a storm, and l when the large ship anchored she put out 1 with one womanly friend in small boat l until she arrived at Alexandria, where
 was Caesar, the great General. Knowing | that she would not be permitted to land | or pass the guards on the way to Cesar s palace, she laid upon the bottom of the boat some shawis and scarfs and richly dyed upholstery, and then lay down upon them, and her friend wrapped
 her in them, and she was
 admitted ashore in this wrap l ping of goods, which was announced as 0 l present for C@sar. This bundle was per
 mitted 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 unrolled there rose before Caesar one
 whose courage, and beauty, and brilliancy | are the astonishment of the ages. This
 exiled Queen of Egypt told the story of her sorrows, and he promised her that she
 should get back her throne in Egypt and 1 take the throne of wifely dominion in his
 own heart. Afterward they made q
 triumphal tour in a barge that the pict.
 ures of many art galleries have called
 "Cleopatra's Barge," and that barge was
 covered with silken awning, and its deck
 was soft with luxuriant carpets, and the
 oars were silver tipped, and the prov wa: | 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 day. You may rejoice.
 o woman, that you are not Cleopatra, l and that the one to whom you may be
 affianced had none of the sins of Cesar, l the conqueror. But it suggests to me how you, soul exilet from happiness and peace. may find your way to the feet Of
 the conqueror of the earth and sky, | Though it may be dark night of spiri tual
 agitation in which you put out into the har.
 Dor of peace, you may sail, and when all | the wrappings of fear and doubt and sin
 shall be removed, you will be found at the | feet of Him who will put you on throne
 to be acknowledged as His in Inc day. l 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 source is the
 foot of the throne. and whose mouth Is at
 the sea of glass mingled with fire,