The Newtown bee., 1892-12-16
Town Topics.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

A Report ofa Sermon by Rev o. o. Wright o
 Sandy Hook-The Voice of Scripture -Tht
 Blessing of the Marriage State
 A goodly audience was present at St Johns church on Sunday night, includ ing quite delegation from Newtown, tc hear the sermon on"Love and Marriage, , the first in series to be delivered by the rector, Rev O. o. Wright The preacher took his text from Gen. II ;24, "There- fore shall man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." The his tory of the world begins with the story of d man and woman. The life of man kind is a perpetual love story. The well fare and happiness of this life and the hope of the world to come, and all that most concerns our race, of things tenn poral or things eternal are involved ir the relations which grow out of the re- lations of the sexes.
 THE BIBLE IS VERY LARGELY
 book of records of family and social life. No wonder that next to the one all pervading theme of Gods love, the Holy Scriptures are full of stories of the love of parents and children and the hap py relations of families and social life. No wonder that the beginning of our Lords miracles was wrought at the mar riage feast when we consider that the true and sanctfied human affections are so vitally connected with the regenera- tion and spiritual perfection of the human race. No wonder that the church in ev- cry age so carefully guards the sanctity of love and the purity of the family, and the nurture of the home for the little ones, linking the great sacraments of na- ture with the holy mystery of divine grace and blessing the offspring of her faithful children with the benediction of the Heavenly Fathers peace. "It was not good for man to be alone"
 SOLITARY LIFE IS NOT
 according to the divine scheme of the earth and man. Life everywhere is so- cal.
 At first humanity was like globe, then it became hemispheres. And so we have a man and his wife, Adam and Eve, male and female created he them. Both bear ing the image of their Maker. They were made for each other and were therefore necessary to each others happiness and welfare.
 Mankind exists in this world as men and women, as opposite spheres of hu manity, for the sake of companionship aud mental helpfulness and for the prop ogation of the species. The sexes were  and devoted affection, and marriage was ordained from the beginning as the most favorable condition in view of the well fare and happiness of the human family. Love and marriage constitute the basis of all human institutions and of all pro- gress and perfection of the race in this world.
 The family is the chief corner stone of the church and state. Marriage is pri- marlly for this state of being. How the angels of God in Heaven are related to each other we do not know, but there is good reason to believe that all whom God hath joined together. in true and spiritual relations in this life, may be married for all eternity.
 Now just what elements of human na- ture belong in particular to either sex, we may not be able to tell.
 BUT WE DO KNOW
 that there are certain differences which can be traced to the very roots of char acter. A boy baby is masculine and a girl baby is feminine. They act differ ently and they are different. They are instruments of music pitched. on different keys and possessing different qualities of tones, and yet they may be tuned togeth- CT so as to produce the most delightful | harmony.
 It is idle for people to talk about the equality of the sexes, or to discuss the superiority or inferiority of either. Both are superior to each other in those char acteristics which go to make them most perfect of their kind and most attractive to each other. AS matter of fact there is nothing in all the world so attractive to true man as pure woman. And there is no good reason why people, young and old, should not have an intelligent understanding in the case. A real manly man and real womanly | woman attract each other like the oppo- site poles of the magnet.
 LOVE IS THE STRONGEST, most ennobling, most essential law of our human nature and marriage is the fulfilling of that universal social law.
 The grand law of marriage is to unite all the essential elements of humanity, so as to make completed social life.
 Some men are more femininethan some women, and some women are more mas culine than some men. Some, perhaps, are not adapted to married life and have not the gift nor called to matrimony. Certain temperaments should never unite because the combination could only trans init misery upon posterity.
 People do not, generally, marry be- cause they are alike, but rather because they they are unlike. Differences are necessary to harmony. But the differ ences should be harmonious, else there must be discord.
 We'll does our spiritual mother, the | Church, teach us that holy matrmony according to St Paul is ''Honorable | among all men and therefore is not by any to be entered into unadvsedly or lightly; but reyerently, discreetly. | advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.n For the abuse of this sacred re- lation is one of the chief causes of the | misery and degradation of mankind and, | therefore whatever promotes and sancti- | fies true love and marriage, must serve as powerful means for the blessing and re- demptlon of the world.