Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-07

resem bles that of the nj 1hammeda al
People who marry overlooking eterr
ity will fail.
Where marriages are arranged main
Iy by others than the immediate pal
ties, or are dictated mainly by finan
cial considerations, all parties to sucl
transactions will prove failures. For
in the first place, what is such trans
action but sale? And when a womal
marries for d living what does she NOR
than the strumpet who every day sell
her body for her daily bread.
1t is true she may receive larger pay
and have a surer thing of it. But tb'
bawd is the more trustworthy woman
tor although she does prostitute her
self she does not prostitute any of God!
ordinances i'm 50 doing. What can fol
low such bargains but a curse.
We know what to do with the white
or the assuredly good. We know wha
to do with the black or the assuredly
bad in this connection, but what shall
we do with the gray, or those that dc
evil in the hope that good may come.
Prominent among the gray are tie
really good women who marry bad
men. and the ally good men who
marry bad women, each one drea ming
in their goodness of heart that they
can reclaim their erring partner.
What is there wrong in this? Mar
| rio ic fn ho onta Il INT H.,
edge and judgment by those whose
characters are settled. And characters
are settled much sooner than many
suspect. In these cases tie ordely par
ties are aware of plague spot in the
characters of the others, but they give
them credit for some great virtues, real
or imaginary, and hope through these
to lead them back to virtue.
But in ninety-nine cases in hun
dred they discover that God did not
intend marriage to be a reform school.
But whilst God may give His people
credit for good motives, and tribulation
only ones that He will forever put as
sunder. Those that have married in
the Lord will remain together, and
those that have married in the Devil
will remain together, but where the
one has married i'm the Lord and the
other in the Devil they will be divorc-
ed Of God. These shall go away into
everlasting punishment. but the. right
eous into life eternal. But time would
| fail us to detail all the springs of fail
| ure among men in regard to this ordi-
nance.
All the ordinances of God are loaded
down with corruptions and abuses,
every one of which claims to be the
only pure article. But the spirit of ur
age is a spirit Of profound investiga-
ton into the foundations of beliefs and
the rightfulness of practices. This is
an age of bibles and of bible reading
and thinking, and a determination to
ascertain facts, combine them and fol-
low them out to their Legitimate, con-
sequences, careless who or what may
suffer. Between this tremendous pow
er and the anomalous muddle of W m
ans rights, the marriage question has
been forced to the surface in the minds
Gods ordinances aLd the cause of
sound, social order. We welcome the
question intelllgently. Much of the
popular discussion of the subject has
been crimination and recrimina ton be-
tween the sexes.
1t is clear tha: marriage is not fail
ure but that all substitutes for it are, so
far as beneficial results are concerned.
For the blasting of their hopes
among the disappointed each sex holds
the other responsible. regard to the
relative guilt of the two sexes in the
premises we have no new principles to
enuncate. The first judicial action
taken on this earth was an action in
ejectment from The Garden of Eden.
The principles governing that case
hold good yet, ali human sentiment
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Those who wish to fasten all the
guilt in the promises on the women
point as they suppose triumphantly
to the fact that God, in the Greek of
the New Testament, places adulte-
ry ,fornication, uncleanness, lascivious-
ness, idolatry, witchcraft, emulations,
wraths aud strifes all in tie feminin
gender. 1t is true that He does. But
love, joy, peace. long suffering, gen
tleuess, goodness, faith, meekness and
temperance are all in the same gender.
All that this proves is that in both
evil and good woman take the lead
When a man has exhausted all his re-
s, urces of iniquity, some woman Will
be found whose eyes will reveal the
fact that her soul set on fire OF He'll is
burning within until the light shines
out at the upper windows, and she
will lead him into lower deep ana
tel hum to curse God and die. On the
other hand, where a man has walked
with weary feet in erring ways, or
when grown weary in well-doing with
lame results, his knees become weak
aud his hands hang down, woman
will come, IN whose eyes is the light
of the glory of God as it shines in the
face of Jesus Christ. And although
hereyes may be dim with weel ing and
her eyelds heavy with tears, she will
assure him in Gods name that in due