St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-27
BEAUTIES OF MARRIAGE.
DR.. lngersoH Urges That All
Young People Enter Watrimony.

DIR. InGersoH Urges That All
Young People Enter Watrimony.
Rev. E. P. Ingersoll, of the Park Con-
gregational church, preached last even
ing another of his popular sermons
upon current topics of the times His
subject was Marriage and Home Life"
He took for his text:
Genesis H., Is: And the Lord God
said, it is not good that the man should
be alone; will make him a bel pmeet
for him."
The following is digest of his re-
marks:
Before our great cotton and wooden
factories, weaving was one of the chief
employments in a large number of
homes. The cotton and wool were spun
into threads by the daughters and
woven into cloth by the mother, who
was called the weaver or wife.
ain the very word ITSELF" says Arch
bishop French. sis wrapped up hint of
earnest indoor, stay-at- home occupations
as being fitted for her who bears this
NAME" The need of a weaver in
home is not the authority for this most
intimate OF earthly relations. The
duties and privileges of wife reach up
into higher, boiler sphere. The mar
rage relation is not only of natural but
of Scriptural appointment, and is
designed of God to meet the noblest,
tenderest demands Of our nature.
Indeed. it is so sacred III
his sight that he has chosen
it to express the vital and pure
relation which Christ bears to his
church, viz: that of the bride to the
bridegroom. When marriage is conse
Grated it smo0ths the rugged pathway
of life, Tightening by dividing its sor-
rows, Tightening by doubling its enjoy
ments. He has bad heart or shattered
brain who talks lightly of marriage. Ii
o man has come to the settled opinion
that the single life is better for him (or
a woman for hersel0, let each beware
of fiippant sarcasm! Marriage never
lowers man or woman.
A clergyman. lawyer, a merchant or
physician may dishonor his calling,
but his calling will never dIshonor him.
Each is worthy and high, and VIII never
stamp disgrace upon any one who does
not first stamp disgrace upon his call
ing. So in regard to the married life.
There is much weak sentlmentalism,
which is catching away the idle, FESTIVE
and imaginative woman of the period'
into schemes and conduct where her
glory cannot follow.
We turn now to questions which dolly
press themselves upon US. Your hus-
band is man of business, a man of
steady employment. l presume he is
from home from early morn till dewy
eve" Life is pleasanter to have sepa-
rations. Much of our happiness depends
upon the play of imagination as we
think and plan for the future. Imgina-
ton works only when we reach forth to
the future. Every union, every friend
ship will be closer, sweeter, because
now and then broken by time and dis
lance. You have a mission in your
home which the thought of his coming, :
better than his presence. will cheer you
to do. Milton says:
Nothing lovelier can be found
In woman than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote ~
See to it III these household affairs
that things start right for the day. Be
prompt to the hour of breakfast. Make
it the especial care of the morning to be
bright and cheerful. so that he may love
his home under the inspiration, THANK
God for such wife"
"Of earthly good the best is good
wife. A bad, the bitterest curse of hui.
man life" Says old Justin Moser:
Nothing flatters man so much as the
happiness of his wife; he is always
proud of himself as the cause of it."
Such pride is pardonable
Here are two pictures. The first one
paint is an extreme one. l cannot be-
lieve it has place in any of our homes.
Yet, if not filled out, some of its out
lines are possibly there, and the old
painter, Time, may soon fill it out.
Here is my first: Mr.. A. tired, very
likely cross, comes home from his bus
mess. 1t has smoothed his ruffled
spirits little to imagine that home will
be bright. He reaches the steps.
There is no light in the house. He
opens the door. All is dark and silent.
He gropes his way about the house.
Mrs. a. is not at home. She might
easily have been, or-she is at home but
in Hurry over some household affair.
She salutes Mr.. A. as a villa Indian
sain.es his friend. with simple exclam-
| alton or with the very cheering words:
rob lat Ia yQui is it2" and then on with