The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-10-02
HIS VIEW OF MARRIAGE,
Rev. Howard MacQueary Handles
Count TOlstoi
Without Gloves In a Sermon peliv-
cred Last Night.
lie Approves Some OF His Ideas and
Opposes Others.
He Denounoes the Party preaaea Worn by
Society Ladies' and Advises All Young
Men 20 Marry---Iiis sermon,

Rev. Howard MacQueary last night de-
llyered a sermon ON "CountTolhtols' view
a. MARRIAGE The subject was an at
traotlye one and drew large audience,
His text wasl ~ ho PharIaeea also
came unto Him, tempting Him and aaylng
unto himi 10 II lawful for q man 70 put
away his wife for holy cnuae, And he
anawered and said unto themi Have ye
not road that he who made them at the
beginning made them male aud female,
and aaid For this cause shall a man
leave father and mother and shall oleaye
10 his wife, and the twain shall be one
flesh, wherefore they arc no more twain,
but one flesh, What therefore God hath
Joined together lot not man put aaunder,h
Rev, MacQueary referred TO Count
Tolatol aa q Russian nobleman, who In
hla youthful days led a dlaoluie life, and
afterwards became leading author ho
then resolved TO accept our Lords pre-
eepta, orat least some Of them literally, So
he renounoed all luxury and all claim up
on his property and began TO work with
his lahorera upon hla estates.
lie has written many bookh and recently
"The Kreutzer Sonata u book which
owing 10 IL authors celebrity and the
Poatmaater'a Generala' absurd prohibition
OF la passage through the mails, and lts
view ON marriage has created great sen
aatlon In the reading world.
The subject II deals with iaundoubtodly
a most important aubIect II n high time
that the sentimental side OF love and mar.
rlage be less thought OF and iia scientific,
social and moral aspect DO more consider
cd. Tolaiol attempts 10 do this, but un.
fortunately he lot his peculiar views In.
/ llu0nce him too much. lie selects ono or
two texts OF the gospel and interpreta
them according TO his Ideas and thus gives
occasion 20 his critic, Col. lngeraoll, 10
sneor al Christianity.
Still there h much truth In Tolatol'a
ylow Of marriage, How on earth can an
Innocent woman respect ana love q man
who deoeiyea herY II In strange indeed
that society women In particular should
oondono the young mans aowlng his Wild
oats,
Again Count Tolatol rightly condemns
tho shocking aud dlaaraoeful dressing
which IN 80 fashionable among women In
high life, Many people are frequently
put 10 blush by the society Noman'a ball
dress, and dress reform IN certainly much
needed II Ia refreshing too, 10 find q
popular author who ia not afraid TO speak
out on this subject,
llo 10 Of course radical on this 40
on most everything, too radical | thiuk,
! don't believe with him that woman
should drose In a pcuaanta gerb. Nor do
/ aklaat 10 funUV ~ tnn n9nulup Uluiga ~
dress, But what we should object TO, IL
first the oXirayagant display Of dress aud
secondly 20 the really immodost styles
adopted and no one can say that this oh-
lection IN not well founded.
Further, our author rightly urges
that tho rearing OF iHnlly should
bo moro thought OF thnn II ia
by many, Aud his words 10
physicians on this point cannot bo too
carefully pondored ly them. A marriage
without children h against tho laws OF
nature.
The greatest defect Of hls book IL that
no takes a rcprohuto, who treats hia wife
like q brute, and iudges all men and
women by this case,
Having now tried 10 point out fully aud
fairly the truths OF our authors opinionH,
/ ahnll nCXt speak OF his errors, lla
book IN thoroughly morbid, full OF mlaln-
iOrprotntioua Of the Christian idea of mar.
riago. II docs violence 20 science, scrip.
turo aud common sense, II aims 20 show
that marriage IN an uuor failure. But Col,
lngorsoll well says, "lf marriage IN fail.
uro Il Ia failure TO the cXlont and only
10 the extent that tho human race Ia u
failure.
No marriage IL not q failure, but Il
undoubtedly IN Che best and most Import.
ant institution that has been established
10y the civilized world. IN thor0 ia unhap.
pincsa la that relation, if there In tyranny
upon ono side and misery upon the other
II b not Che fault OF marriNgc,n
Those are the words, the noble worda OF
Col. lngoraoll and ho rightly adds, "Wo
cannot cure the evils of our day and tlmo
by return 20 savagoiy. But the timO
will como when tho human raco Will be
truly enlightened. When labor will re-.
coivo its due reward. When the last In
stitution bogotton OF Ignorance and saw
agory will dlanppeNr. Tho time will come
when the whole world will say that the
love OF man for woman, OF woman for
man, OF mother for child, h the highest,
tho nobles!, the purost, Of which tho heart
IN capnbler
Therefore say again my follow young
mon, marry ~ soon na you have u reason.
able prospect OF earning n living for your
family Don't be won simply by n pretty
face or form, or feminine cutonoss, above
all don't sell yourself TO n woman, for ns
suro 10 You do, you will bo a hon pccked