The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-07-04
MURDER AFTER MARRIAGE,
Noted Ministers on Infdclity to the Mar.
tlal Vow.

MURDER AFTER MARRIAGE.
Noted Ministers on Infdclity to the Mar.
tial Vow.
Is infidelity to the marriage VOW
spreading?
Three murders in little over a week,
and all the outcome OF domestic ieal-
ousy!
What do leading clergymen say?
Their views were solicited by a New
York Journal reporter. The Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage said:
II don't think the crimes of our large
cities are increasing, considering tho in.
crease in population. In olden times,
when a crime was committed, it took
through the active scrutiny OF the news
paper fraternity, all these outrages
promptly come to observation.
"While we hear of cases of domestic
inidelity we must remember that where
we hear Of one such case there arc
thousands of happy homes of which
nothing is said.
$50 far as these cases of violence are
concerned" DIR. Talmage went on,
pistol and dirk never correct anything.
In no case is the taking of life %justif-
able except in self-defense. Knife and
sword may be necessary in barbaric So
ctety, but where We have laws and of.
hcers eady to execute them there is no
excuse for taking human life.
"Where violence is used it only pro-
tracts the disturbance. The law is at
last appealed to when it ought to have
been at the very first appealed to.
MANY of these desperate troubles
arise from the fact that people have
around them firearms. Officers OF the
law or people living on the borders of
civilization may be right in carrying
firearms, but a young man or an old
nan who in our peaceful state of So
ciety carries a pistol is a cowardly
puppy"
Standing up and looking like an ath-
lete, the reverend gentleman con
tinued:
"God has given to every healthy man
two weapons, and these are his two fists,
and there are no weapons so quickly
loaded or unloaded. They are the only
kind Of weapons that a nan needs in
these latitudcs and these times"
In q moro tender zone DR.. Talmage
vent on:
There cannot he too much emphasis
placed in our time upon the solemnity
Of the marriage relation. One-half the
o OF today come from the fact that
there is SO little appreciation of mar
riage MS a divine institution. and people
do not appreciate sufficiently the fact
that the relation is to be entered into
only after the most careful considera-
ton.
"People used to laugh at Martin Far
quhar Upper because no said hat PEE
| pie ought to make it a matter Of prayer
before they entered into the marriage
relation. I think Topper was right and
if there is anything on earth about
which a man or woman ought to pray it
10 the question of a lifetime c%opartncr-
ship"
Tho Rev. DIR. Robert Collyor, pastor
of the church of the Messiah, said:
Tho most sacred thing is marriage.
There is nothing SO close and true if it
is a true marriage. When tho tic is
broken it opens the way to any VIC
lence. A man esteems the honor of his
wife greater than his own, and SO the
wife esteems the honor of her husband.
There is nothing beyond that. The
dishonor OF ones wife or husband is far
worse than the sense of ones own dis
honor, SO we need not wonder that
crime is the result in so very many in
stances"
DR.. Collyer paused in thought and
then went II
al should be inclined to say that this
disaster never comes to . true welded
life. 1t would DO simply impossible as
l look at it; but mon and women rush
into marriage and usually their reasons
for the step are founded in lust and not
in love-"
"a good poet says that all true love
is blcnt with reverence as heavenly
light is blent with heavenly blue. So
we have to see to it that q true love
should be the beginning of all. Then
it will be the beginning OF all-dowp to
the golden wedding-down to the day
of death and onward into heaven, where
there is no marrying or giving in mar
riage, but where men and women are as
the angels of God"
DIR. John Hall, pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church, said:
"When men and women are without
crime in its darkest hue becomes the
consequence. Agnostics who arc guilty
of #infdelity fear nothing but the legal
punishment that follows detection.
They have no fear of the wrath of
God"
Having this fear OF the law alone at
heart, mon and women yield to tempta-
ton. DIR. Hall thinks, in proportion to
the hope of escape from discovery.
"'Others have sinncd and have not
been found out they go on saying to
themselves, continued DR.. Hall, until
there ONE a time when almost all re-
stratnt is cast aside. 1T is when this
state Of feeling is reached that the COM
munity is startled by tho disclosure of
some fearful c~rime-when they learn
once more that p murder has resulted
r ON the black sin of inidelity."