Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-07-05
MURDER AFTER MARRIAGE.
Noted Ministers on Inidclity to the Mar
fial Vow.

ttaI VOW
Is infdelity I the marriage vow
spreading?
Three murders In little over a week,
and ~ the outcome Of domestic jeal-
ousy!
What do leading clergymen say?
Their views were solicited by a New
York Journal reporter. The Rev. L.
Dewitt Talmage said:
81 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, IL o
months or years TO find it out; now,
through the active scrutiny OF the news
paper fraternity, all these outrages
promptly come TO observation.
"Whi1e we near OF cases of domestic
infdelity 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 justi6-
able except in self-defense. knife and
sword may be necessary in barbaric So
ciety, but where we have laws and Of
ficers 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 1t 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 a or an old
man 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 nan
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 hat n man needs in
these ATTITUDES and these times"
In q more tender tone DR.. Talmage
went on:
There cannot be too much emphasis
placed in our time upon the solemnity
of the marriage relation. One-half the
woes Of today come from the fact that
there is 30 little appreciation of mar
rage as a divine institution, and people
do not appreciate sufficiently the fact
that the relation is TO be entered into
only after the most careful c~onsidera-
ton.
People used to laugh at Martin Far
quhar Topper because he said that PEI
pie ought TO make it a matter of prayer
before they entered into the marriage
relation. think upper was right and
il there Is anything on earth about
which q nan or oma ought to pray IL
is the question of a lifetime copartner-
ship"
The Rev. DIR. Robert Collyer, pastor
OF the church OF the Messiah, said:
The most sacred thing is marriage.
There is nothing so close and true II it
is a true marriage. When the tie Is
broken IL opens the way TO any vio-
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 on:
81 should be inclined to say that this
disaster never comes TO a true welded
life. It would be simply impossible as
/ look at il; but men and 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
10 blent with reverence as heavenly
light is blent with heavenly blue. So
We have to see Il il that a true love
should be the beginning of all. Then
IL will be the beginning of all-down to
the golden wedding-down to the day
Of death and onward into heaven, where
there is no marrying or giving in mar
rage, but where mon and are as
the angels of God.
DR.. John Hall, pastor Of the Fifth
Avenue Presby terrain church, said:
when men and m are without
Gods truth they commit acts OF which
crime in it's darkest hue becomes the
consequence. aBHoSelOS NnO arc BuAiby
Of inhdelity 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, men and women yield to tempta-
ton. DIR. Hall thinks, in proportion to
the hope of escape from discovery.
"'Others have sinned and have not
been found out, they go on saying To
themselves" continued DIR. Hall, until
there comes a time when almost all re-
straint is east aside. 1t is when this
state of feeling is reached that the com
munity is startled by the disclosure OF
some fearful crime-when they learn
once more that a murder has resulted
r ON the black sin of infdelity."