The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-24
SCUDDER 4 SHAqCHHN.
The Tabernaele's Pastor
breaches the Gospel Of
Universal Matrimony.
Pastor

'TIow to get a good wife, was the
subject of an interesting sermon preached
by the Rev. John L. Scpdder at the
Tabernacle last night. 1t was delivered
at the request of several members of the
church, whom it pleased in 1892, when it
was preached before.
1T is the same old story of true love
you see" Mr.. Scudder began. Love is
mightier sthan money. All women would
like to be butterflies, brilliant in costume
and fitting about the landscape to the
admiration of all beholders, but for
loves sake, almost all of them are will
ing to become busy bees and build a
honey comb in the home nest. When a
man marries such a sensible. industrious
woman he is to be congratulated, and
when her virtue and industry are coupled
with true religion, 1 declare him doubly
blest.
in the garden of Eden there were
two people. AT first, according to- the
Hebrew legend, there was only a man.
He had everything to eat that an earthly
paradise could afford. He owned the
earth, but he was not happy. There was
something lacking and he went moping
round the garden until God took pity
upon him and gave him a wife. Taken
alone, man is an incomplete being. He
needs a woman's love to make his life
perfect. In Proverbs we find whatsoever
dndeth a wife, findeth a good thing
ALL WANT A HOME. I.
There is a yawning in every mans
breast to establish a home of his own.
This instinct is common to both man
and woman, and upon it the perpetuity
of the family system depends. Bache-
lors may ak all they please about single
blessedness,' and its results, yet if you
of matrinony and its results, yet if you
could look into their heart of hearts,
you would find this same old longing
for a home and a queen to reign in it;
something better THAI a boarding house
with it's mixed company and lack OF
privacy.
Some men set themselves against
matrimony because they car save more
money by living alone. Family life in
voives additional. expense n they love
the dollar more than any woman on the
face Of the earth. Such men ought not
to marry. A misery M makes a poor
husband. He had better save his money
and sperd 1t all upon his sweet, little
self. Some men are unwilling to undergo
the varied self demands which accom-
pany family.
marry is because they have been crossed
in love. Some men are too bashfuI to
make love, and if thezwoman would do
it for them they would come on famous
Iy. Fortunately every four years there
is a providential interposition in their be-
half. Some men avoid marriage because
of some incurable disease which is likely
to be handed down to their Children. This
is wise, as the marriage relations in
VolVe the happiness to many besides
ourselves. British, cruel, mean and I'M
faithful husbands are worse than no
husbands at all. This kind of timber
ought to die without reproduction.
MARRIAGE AND LONG LIFE.
1T is a noticeable fact that married
men live longer than the unmarried, ac-
count for it as you will. In every thou
sand bachelors there are thirty-eight
criminals, and in the same number of
married men only eighteen criminals.
This loving at first sight and being al
most swept off ones feet by IN ire
'sistable impulse is dangerous. 1t is
based on appearances and there is no
telling where it Will end. The first quail
fication must be that she is a woman of
character and thus commands the re-
spect and admiration of the men who
seeks her hand. 1t must be always re-
membered hat women are born actors.
Never marry a slovenly. woman, but get
IF you want a wife who will stay by
you in your ups and downs, get one who
can walk down town without hailing a
street car or climb a couple of stories
without taking an elevator. l pity
girlish wives, and I say do not marry
until tWenty-three or more. The sin of
the age is extravaganza; living for show.
taken possession of society that many 81
young man has become unduly sensitive
and bashful with respect to m~atrimony.
Marry by all means a Christian.