Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-05-18

tIeHieiy III earnest over the "marflage-
a-failureo question, or we would not
have interfered in the flow of his SOUPS
delight. From his own standpoint
we are right in having taken better
half and helping to people the earth
and heaven, and we assure "Edmund"
we have nothing to regret, except
poverty,-torn shoes, patched clothes
and duns. Edmundv has taken his
increasing and multiplying ideas too
seriously to heart. The Lord has al
ways attended to that by natural laws
that never fail, not even in dry wealth
er. Further, our correspondent, hav-
ing more than average intelligence
and fair judgment, studies only one
side of his question, and is entirely
toe sweeping in his assertions. That
marriage is all that he claims for it,
we do not deny. But every one who
does not marry does wrong and should
be punished, and if single life leads to
the depth of evil he says it does, what
of our own dear sisters, aunts and
uncles, whom we know have led good,
useful and blameless lives what of
Christ Himself, whom no man living
nor demon dead ever convicted of
wrong; what of the million spotless
beings whom revelation teaches us
follow the Lamb, not one of whom
ever knew carnal faint, but were vir-
gins and holy men and women; what
of those who long for higher perfec.
ton and are told to leave father and
mother and follow Jesus, and new
er word did He say about taking
their sweethearts along; and last but
not least Scripture is full of admoni.
ton like st. Paul gives, that it is we'll
to give in marriage but better not to.
There is reason in all things. Those
who are called one way, should fol-
low: those whose vocation is the oppo-
site should pursue that course. The
evils of marriage and the evils of
single life are not of the calling but of
the called. The divorce court records
now so damaging to morality show
that thousands enter that state who
are not fitted for it; and the press all
over the country daily chronicles a
fearful budget ofjealousy, infidelity,
murder and suicide, for which mar
rage as an institution is not to blame,
but man and woman are who rush in
where angels fear to tread.
Much love hath surely made ed
mund" mad and ifhis conscience and
the grace Of faith have inspired his
matrimonial literature, he will do a
great wrong to himself, his God, and
his country, if he allows another sun
to go down over his head without con-
sulting Clerk Doll about a marriage
license. He has intelligence, good |
health, and fair means of making |
living for two multiplied ad honaiaena.
If his ideal of wonanhood is not in |
Falling Waters, come to Martinsburg,
where abides the flower of the land,
the richness of whose fragrance scents
the morning air Of life and dims the
declining sun of manhood with the
hazy atmosphere of patriarchal peace
and plenty, prolific of all that was
promised to Abraham, Isaac or Jacob
of old.
In conclusion of our fatherly advice,
we beg Edmund'' to stop preaching
on his subject and go to practicing
subsection. by falling upon his knees
before his adored one, and opening
the heart string of his devotion to her,
and she'll help him out of the ''soup" |
and make man out of him with the |
in hand.