The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-09
TALMAGE on MARRlAGE.
Matrimony for Worldly Success " Ith-
out Resaro. to Moral Character,
Handled Without GloveS--Somc
Advice and .relling Blows
ut the Tyrant Man.

IN the millennium we will all
dwell in palaces and ride in charlots,
and sit at sumptuous banqucts, and
sleep under rich cmhroldcr'es. and
live four or five hundred years said
Rev. DR.. Talmage yesterday morning,
in his second sermon to the women
of America. The popular preacher
announced his subject as Marriage
for Worldly Success, Without Regard
to Moral Character Several hun.
dred people were turned away, un-
able to find even standing room in
the big church.
This domestic tragedy is repeated
every day, all over Christendom-
marriage for worldly success, without
regard to character continued the
divine.
Good and genial character in
man is the very first requisite for
woman's happy marriage. Mistake
me not as depreciatIve Of worldly
prospcrities. There is a religious
cant that would seem to represent
poverty as virtue and wealth as
crime. can take you through a
thousand mansions were God is as
much worshipped as lie ever was in
cabin. The whole tendency Of sin is
toward poverty and til" whole ten.
dencv Of righteousness is toward
wealth. Godlness is profitable for
the life that now is, rs well as for
that which is to come.
1t is a grand thing to have plenty
of money and horses that don't com
pei YOU to take the dust Of every
numbering and lazy vehicle. There
is no virtue in owning horse that
takes four minutes to 90 in mile
if you can own one that can 90 lit
tie over two minutes and half; no vlr
tue 10 running irto the teeth of a
northeast wind with t!in apparel if
you can afford furs; no virtue in be-
ing poor when you can honestly be
rich. There are names Of men and
women that l have only to mention
and they suggest not only wealth
but religion and generosity and phil
anthropy, such as Amos Lawrence,
James Lennox, Peter Cooper, VIII
liam + Dodge, 5haftesbury, Miss
Wolfe and Mrs. Astor.
The fact is that about all the
brain and the business genius is on
the side Of religion. 1nflelity is
incipient: insanity. All infdels are
cranks. Many of them talk brightly,
but you soon find that in tn If mental
machinery there is screw loose.
When they are not lecturing against
Christianity they are sitting in bar
rooms squirting tobacco juice, and
when they get mad swear till tue
place is sulphurous.
Men may pretend to despise re-
ligion, but they are rank hypocrites.
Most Of the great, honest, permanent
worldly successes are by those who
reverence God and the Bible. Bat
what / do say is that man has moth
ing but social position and financial
resources q woman who puts her hap.
piness by marriage in his hand re.
enacts The folly Of Abigail when she
accepted disagreeable Nabal, whose
possessions were iu Carmel and the
man was very great
The sacrifice Of woman on the
altar of social and financial expecta,
ton is cruel and stupendous. ]
sketch you q scene you have more
than once witnessed. A comfortable
l home with nothing more than ordi
!, nary surroundings but an attractive
). daughter, carefully and Christianly
reared. From the outside world comes
in q man with nothing but money
unless you count profanity and sci
fshness and fondness for champagne
r and general recklessness as a part Of
his possession. He had his coat
collar turned up when there is nc
chill in the air, but because they
I give him an air Of abandon, ami eye
6 glasses, not because he is near
2 sighted. but because it gives class
. ical appearance; and, with an attire
f. somewhat loul. a cane thick enough
q to be the club of Hercules and clutc!
n ed in the middle, his conversation in
: tcrlarlcd with French phrazes mac
curateIy pronounced and Il sweep o
f manner indicating that he was no
born like most folks but terrcstriallN
;, landed.
q by arts learned OF the devil lie in
# sinuates himself into the affections o
l. the daughter of that Christian home
e All the kindred congratulate her OF
e the almost supernatural prospects
V Reports come in that the young MAJ
f is fast in his habits, that he ha
!. broken several young hearts. and tina
r. he is mean and selfish and crueI
q But all this is covered up with til
fact that he has several houses in hi
own name, and has largc deposits q
the bank, and. more than all. has
It father worth many hundred thousan'
. dollars and very feeble in health am
a may any day drop of. and this is tn
@ only son; and a round dollar hcl
close to ones eye is large enough t
= Shut out great desert and how muc
y more will several bushels "fdollar
Z shut ont?
e The marriage day comes and goe:
4 The wedding ring was costly enough
II and the orange blossoms fragrar
d enough. and the benediction sol5m
o enough. and the wedding march stiI
=. ring enough. There they are. tn
~ newly married pair. in their ne