The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1890-12-13

iUNuuNluttutt iiiut uEfS dlt lnuA-
ing havoc of the home and
destroying the beauty and signiti-
cance Of the family. Marriages
are often contracted with less
care and f0rethought than Is used
il co .ducting the ordinary affairs
of life. Such nconsiderate haste
III entering into the matrimonial
state is not only ieplehensible,
but criminal, In such eases home
is scarcely thought of, and the
domici which may bear tie name
Of home is devoid of all sweet
ness. Truly happy marriage
must be based on substantial tIalts
of character. which do not lie on
the surface anG cannot be discern
ed at once or In Il few weeks.
Ample time Is needed to sound it
AID tesL K, anl no marriage should
take place until time has been
given to the study of those llfo
traits winch will make the future
tolerubIe ol intolerabIe, happy or
miserable. Talk Of loyc 1T frs.
sight. O, me. poor siupleton
eyes ecilpsed, brmo added, hcatt
trausAxedl Tpe h8tle b athau
god don't waste his arrows shoot-
ing at such breast. Twas
some iguis fatuus.
When t,go young pcrsons thus
suddenly snlttcn, or who have
known each other but for Il little
time, who have taken 80 pans TO
x ow each others characters and
dispositions and are utterly igno-
rant Of each othrr's inner life
rush INTO the marriage stae--=lt
seems u truyestY on the holy rite,
and they 90 away 10 have luck
less quarrel within a week. Al
such IN altar two lives are wreck
ed, and after all, was ltmaeIiage !?
Other relations may be seycp-
ed. but the marriage bond should
hold for life. God so intended
it, and "What God hath Jo:nvd
together man by legislation, has
no right to put aspndcr. The
enactment Of laws for the dissol-
wing the marriage bonds, by the
divorce Of husband aud wife, who
have pledged to each other their
faith, and who have been joined
in the most sucpeJ bonds known
to mortals on earth Is utterly
antagonistic 10 and subyerslye Of
the hame relation.
la some Of eur states the mar
rage and home relauoa are SO
lightly esteemed that legal pros
vision Is made for granting divorce
even oD frivolous grounds. Their
laws, 10 this respect, seem TO
have been made to foster vice
rather than restrict IL; TO nulhfY
marriage rather than to guard
it. The possibilitic not TO say
the probabilities Of wong under
such legislation are fearful indeed.
In some OF our States a man can
absent hlnself from his family
for ii few days or weeks, yet j
divorce, marry again, bring hi,
wife to his home and install hel
US mistress of his house over thC
occupant wife, without eXplana-
tlon or reason gwen and without
the possibility of resistance, ant
the law will sustain hlm IN 1T
| have seen 1t ~ PRINT OF late
that in New York man can marry
half a dozen wiYcs, provided he
married but Que Of them IN tha
State, and may have them all unde
one roof. In some of the othe
States, North, the marriage an,
divorce statistics nearly CORES
pond. How mitch better thai
, Mormonism Is this state o
society?
In the n. o. Delta, Of 27t
ult., It is sand, "A patty of 10
+. Mormons passed through Men
pms the other day en- route I
Utah. Those Mormon convert
t we're from Tenpessee, Alabam
9 and Georgia. One Of them /
G reply 70 the reporter, said,
: don't 1eny that some Of us nav
motives tor seeking the land Z
Brigham Young. Suppose fo
mslaAce that a man Of - yeal
b my age-falis ii love with I'll
a daaghtcr Of 4 neighbor. He
$ good Aooking, ns The pglne OF M
Q aud she rcciprocatcs his passioi
4 Bu. they az not allowed to ma.
{. ry becauseV ae, when youn
i man mari, N and Las a wife VIII
: /, now ar old woman. What
5 to b. done? AM9rmon preach'
"a comes along aud prgaci:rs Uta
4 and the lovers become conyelte
!, fTn.a Afaru,on- con