Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-24
GAzErrE. FoRT TExAs MoNpAY,


We rode on toward our hotel Wishing
that marriage In all India might he as
much honorcd as In tho ceremony we had
that evening witnessed az the parSoo we'd
ding. Tho Hindoo woinon rrc not 70 mar
ficd. They arc simply cursed into the
corluFal relation, Many OF the glrls are
married at and 10 yeats OF age, and some
Of them are Erardmothers at 50 They
can mover 20 firth into tho sunlight with
their faces uncovered. They must stay nj
homo, All styles Of maltrcatmSnt are
theirs, II they become Christians, they DO.
come outoasts A missionary told me In
India OF Kindoo woman who became n
Chtistian. she had nlnu children. ilor
husband was over 20 years OF arc, and yet
at her Christian baptism he told her To 10,
and she went out homeless IA long "a
woman IS down India Will be down. No
nation was ever elevated except through
the elevation OF woman. parscp murFipga
Is an improvement on nindon marriage
but Christian masriagois nm improvement
on Pafsco marriage.
A follow trayelcr In India told mo no
had been writing 10 Ills homo IN England
tryiug 10 set law passed that no white
woman could 10 legally married 10 india
until she had been thvro SIX months. Nd.
mirablu law would that hal II awhtto
woman saw what married life with a
Hindoo H. she would mover undertake Il.
on with tho thick aud ugly veil fr,m
womnn's faoel GA with tho crushing
burdens from her ehouldetl Nothing hut
the gospel OF Jesus Christ will ever make
I lifo IN India what Il ought 10 DO,
But what nm afternoon Of eontrafe In
Bombay we experienced From the tenn.
rle 81 silence TO tho tomplo OF hllarityl
From the yulturcs to tho doyeel Frum
mourning to iaughterl From gathering
shadows TO cleaning lighisl Ffom phsc.
quits TO weddinel but how much o. all
our liyos IA inadc up OF such opposltesi
HAYS carried IN the same pocket AMI READ
from them In tho same hour tho liturgy Of
tho dead and tho ceremony OF espouals.
And so the tear meets Tho smilc, and tho
dove meets the yultum
rhc Glorious Gospel OF christ.
Thus have tct before you tho best OF
all The roliBions VI the heather world, and
have done 10 IN order that you might
como TO higher appreciation Of the clio.
rious religion which has put It's benedietion
over us and over Chrislcndoni,
Compare the absurditles mud mummeries
OF hoathun marriage with Tho plain |
willh Of Christian marriage tho hands
aolhth w l4NNttf NA NtNih An ANu part,
Comparc tho doctrine That the dead may
noe be touched with rs sacred and tender
aud loving a kiss rs IL ever Rlyon, the last
klhs OF llps that notNr erain will speak to
as. Compare tho narrow uldso ChinyRt,
over which the departing Parsce enul must
truiubllngly ct0ss, 10 tho Wide open gate
Of heaven, through which the departing
Chrlstnn soul may tgiumphantly enter.
Compare tho "a hooka o. the zond Aycsta
OF tho parsce, which even tho scholars Of
the earth despair Of understanding, with
our Bible, ~ much Of it "a Ia necessary for
our salvation Ia lang uHgc 10 plain that "a
wnyfarlnR man, though n fool, need not
err therein Compare the tower OF ~.
lunee, with IT, yuitnros. at Bombay with
tho Greenwood 81 Brooklyn, with itp
toulpturd angels 81 resurrection, and bow
yourselves In Thanksgiving mud prayer az
you rcallsc that " AZ Tho battlcS VI Mara
thon and salaul' pofala had trlumphed
over Grecco Instead NJ Groeor trlumphlnR
over Persia, Parseoltm, which was the ma
tionnl roligion Of pefrlh, might have GOV
errd the earth. mud you and ! instead al
sitting IN The noDnday llahl OF uur glo
iious Christianity might hnvuhoen chop
ing the depressing thpdowA OF paweo.
ism, religion ~ inicritr 10 that which
IS orr Inspiration IN liio and cur lopo IN
death "a Xoroastor OF Persia was inloTlpl
to our radiant ana tNpgfhuman Christ tc
whom bc honor mud Rlofy and dominion
and victory and song, world without end
Amonl