The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-11-29
OF AUTUMN MARRIAGES.
A SEASON WHEN MANY YOUNG
HEARTS ARE MADE GLAD.
Why Should Not the Season of Plenty
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be the Great Season of Matrimonial
Blis>?-Secret of Happy Lives.
The glad autumn is unlike any other
season. all vegetation dies of the frost
and brings us the ripened yield Of tree
and mother earth, and while nature
dies, man, the greatest of creation
takes ON to a new life-the dc uble life
while the press and neighborhood
news gathereIs tell of the joining in
that holy estate OF wedlock of our
young men and maidens.
May adC. June have often reached
and is still reaching out to dethrone
autumn as the hymeneal season,
but autumn yet reignS supreme as
queen of that glad time.
Why should it not? Why should
not the season Of plenty be the great
season of matrimonial bliss?
Editor Hunt, of the Burlington
News, writes Interestingly on this
subject. He gives his views as fol-
lows:
LOO many make marrying too much
OF business transaction, and any
business enterprise that proves a fail
ure is of course unpleasant, and un-
pleasant marriages are no doubt the
hardest to be endured of all calamities
tarily.
The higher the state of civilization
the more love is made the main-Spring
of welded life, and that is no doubt
the great and only safe guide to
follow blindly, but with eyes open =
behOldiDg not OEe side only of a lovers
character, but all sides, and if possi-
bic the home character, the everyday
character-clear of starch, powder and
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ones accomplishments that you must
be nearest TO, and see the most of,
after the joining Of hands. We said
love should be the guiding hand prop
erly modified. If that is followed and
partners for life selected first on that
account, and secondly on account OF
other accomplishments, the battle is
won.
Then why advocate young and early
marriages?
We answer, for several reasons:
When young people reach maturity
and the body aud characters are de-
VelOped, their love is mnra sacred and
more earnest than il is if years are
spent in Irritation and abuse of that
tie which binds ali men together;
hence to be bound in wediock to a
lover while young and pure, the con
f1dence jn humanity is stronger and
BILE for it to be after years in trifling
with human love and affection.
The early and well-matched wedlock
tie makes men out of what would be
sewers of wild oats and perhaps
wreck in the end; it makes women of
what would be tickle, flirting girls,
and in the end old maids devoid of
confidence in man or woman.
The entering into the estate of mat
rimOny creates new ambitions and
aWakens'in 5he minds of worthy young
people a purpose to reach certain ends,
thus garnering for usefulness the en-
ergieS that would otherwise be wasted.
1t tones down the widest of men,
softens their natures, giving purpose
to the most aimless beings.
Thus it might be run on and eu-
larged upon for pages, but enough has
been said.
The day one marries we'll is the
happiesb, the greatest day of his, or
her life, and in the future all things
date back to that day the day of all
days.
Let wisdom guide in the selection,
let love govern all movements, let
common sense and adaptaEility to
each others natures be the fOunda-
tion on which the altar is built, and
you will never live to be old enough
to regret when you exchanged aimless-
ness for purpose, and restleSSneS5
for contentment. These happy con-
young and pure, before sin and dis
sipation blunt the finer senses.
Marry young, marry well, and
whether fortune smiles or adversity
overtakes, there will be nothing to re-
gret.