Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

CHAPTER IV--CoNCLUDED.
az do not think that is 80, - sand PamphiIius
FLUSHING. 81 never thought OF her beauty
You are the first who have suggested such ,
thing. She is but sister to me. But to come
back to what was saying about the difference
between marriage with you and with us; II
arises, as l was remRrking, from the ciacum.
stance that with you carnal lust uuder the name
OF beauty, love, service of the goddess Venus, is
deliberately provoked and maintained; whereas
with US, on the contrary. 1t is avoided, not be-
cause we hold it to be an evil God has created
no eviDi indeed. we esteem it positive good
because il can and does become an evil, temp
tation as we call it, when not confined to its
proper place. Now we strain every nerve TO
avoid this. And that is the reason why am not
married yet, although know OF nothing to pre-
vent me from taking wife tomorrow.
The will of God. -
How do you discover it?"
III YOU never look for its manifestations you
VIII never lind them. II you are continually on
the watch for them, they become visible and
clear, as clear as Givina,io by sacrifices or by
the flight Of birds is to you. And you have
wise men among you who interpret TO you the
Will OF your gods by the light of their own
knowledge and signs they discern in the entTails
OF the victim or the flight of BIRDS in like man
ner We too have our wise men-eldeTs-who
make known to us the will of our Father, by
mems OF the Christs revelation, the prompt
inZs OF their heart and the thoughts of others
and more than anything else by the love they
cherish for their fellcwman. -
All tins IS 1nueh too vague objected Ju-
and whom you should marry9 Now, when the
time came for me TO marry had the choice of
three girls. These possible wives were selected
from among all the others by reason of their
uncommon beauty and great wealth. and my
father consented in advance to my marriage
with any one of the three. 1t was from these
three that selected my Eulalia, because sue
was the prettiest and in my eyes the most fas-
einAt4ng; All that was quite natural. But who
Will guide your choice?'
=, efole civ ng direct reply TO your ques-
ton. - said Pemphiiius, "let me first tell you
that in our religion all men are equal in the eyes
o. our Father, so they are equal in our eyes,
elSo 10Th in respect of their position and in re-
gard to their physical and moral qualities. 1t
iol ows from this that our choice (if must en-
p.oy word which for us has no meaning is not
ana cannot be IN any way circumscribed. Any
human being living on this earth can become
the husband or vile of q Christian
That makes il all the more difficult to FIX
ones choice, said Julius.
Let me tell you what one OF our elders re-
marked to me the other day on the difference
pied Pumphiius. 1.-The Pagan chooses that
girl OF all others who, to his thinking, Is quail
ned to yield him the highest degree aud greatest
uon is to make him dart his eyes with lightning
Iapldlty from one TO another; irresolute which
70 choose; for what makes it the more difficult
70 come to decision is that the enjoyment in
question is an unknown quantity yelled in the
sIadoWy future. A Christian on the other hand
~ not unbiased by The element of personal
Cuolce, or rather considerations OF 4 purely per-
sonal ture occupy q secondary instead OF the
ioft most place. His one absorbing care is not
~ ms marriage TO run counter TO the Will of
~ But Tow is it possible to oppose Gods Will
Dy marri7ge?''
~, ~ were to forget the HAD replied Pam
Pniius; that you and were wont to study and
eau aloud together in bygone times, there
would De little 10 wonder at and nothing tn con-
ssEl. But If you forget it, who live in the midst
a. pn pliers and poets, you cannot plead the
hame lustlhcation. Now what else is the Iiisd
me story OF the transgression of the will OF
So1 Gy msrriageg And Menelaus and Paris, |
q anu helen and Achilles and Agamemnon and |
,a[yssis are all elements of description of the !
sun oveItake. people who oppose their will /
=" az. tnst OF goo IN this natter of marriage
''Ia the fact that What n man Low, "a
woman is not fellow creature like himself but |
t tae personal enjoyment which his union with |
WI, nring hlsi and for the purpose o. pro-
curing this pleasure ne contracts marriage. /