Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-05-18
MAY 10, T89.
BEpINGT0N NEWS.

Miss Alice Bell, of Shenandoah
Junction, is visiting the Misses Quinn.
Miss Nettie Mendenhall is visiting
Miss Annie Howard.
Mrs. JnO. Merchant, of Vancleves-
vile, who has been visiting relatives
and friends here has returned home.
Children's day at Bedington Church
on Sunday. Come one and all.
Quarterly meeting June I'd.
l am informed that the lime kilns
on the Willet farm, at Hainesville,
are to be put in operation again.
A man from New Jersey has leased
a piece of land of Mr.. j. NJ. Pyne at
Hainesville, for term of FIVE years,
and will engaged in the cultivation OF
Water Cress.
So the worthy and genial Editor
has taken exceptions to Edmund's
article on that famous and inexhausti-
BILE subject, " Is marriage a failure, u
and CONSTITUTES it to be an effort to
deceive unthinking YOUTH" what a
mistake; thank him for his compli'
ment, and believing that one ought to
be willing to back up his opinion,
will attempt to do so, at the same
time dissect his reply. He says Ed.
mund reasons on marriage "like far
gone lover, with all sentiment and nc
sense.n He takes a different stand
and reasons with all humor and nc
logic. Of course Edmund is I" far
gone lover" The first person l ever
loved was my mother and 1t became
SO natural that could not and cannot
help but love others.
He who has no love for woman
has no heart for them. He is lost t.
all the finer feelings of the soul and t.
sweet natures hottest, tenderest tie
heartless renegade" He says mar
rage is not intended TO. the "multi
plication of the human race" / still
claim that it is; for have we not thu
"divinen edict. $50 forth, multiply
and replenish the earth ?" And ther
the ordainment of the marriage insti
tutien DEGREES that there is only on
lawful way of doing SO, by ant
through marriage. Can anything b.
more explicit and conclusive? Why
my dear Editor, has your matrimoni
al Journey been Uid dolOrosa, that yol
attempt to picture the horrors of mar
ried life so graphically and thus SCARF
unthinking youth" into celibacy.
And again you are wrong when yol
say that marriage is to keep goot
husband from sleeping himself t.
death. Well if he didn't get married
you would not know whether or not h
was a good one-in fact he wouldn'
be any.
No Edmund has not the "genuin
trade mark of experience" but he cal
tell how to keep" undying devotion,
viz: On a full -four barrel. By in
dustry and skill keep the barrel full
and you can live on love in Opequol
without any trouble or danger o
trespassing on advertised property
I still claim that marriage is not
failure, and still say that accomplish
es its object. In every human beinl
there are innate passions, constan
yearnings and longings that seek TO
qualification and which are never sat
isfied until they are gratified.
These qualifications are not lawfully
attainable, only through marriage no
made so by the caprices of man, blu
by the creator of man.
In marriage these passions are graft
fed, these longings and yearning
satiated and man is happy and wo
man too, if they choose to allow thu
queen of love to reign and peace abide
Greater purity in the human race i:
obtainable in marriage than in cell
bacy, for every genera tion of man ha!
proved that married life is much NOR
favorable to devotion and piety thar
single state.
Marriage elevates, dignifies and NOR
Allies man; it encourages and prop
agates chastity, refinement, honor an6
piety single life leads to debauchery
and vice, criminality and degradation
infdelity and atheism. They WHIT
marry not disobey the divine injunc
tion, eco forth, multiply and replen
fish the earth," and commit an un
pardonable sin. Man must be sur
rounded by the genial and refining
influences of woman. TITS she WHIT
moulds him to good or to evil, to en-
noble and refine him.
Again / say marriage is intended
for the laaefM multiplication of the
human race" and add that any beins
who refuses to marry is justly accuse
BILE of conduct which unlawfully ex
terminates man and is therefore wor
thy of and ought to receive effectua
and condign punishment.
Tell me dear Editor where l am wrong
Show me the whyness of the whence
| EDMUND.