Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-18

Mh,oh IS tho cornerstone OF the state.
anu IN the name OF that God who hath set
up the family Institution, aud who hath
NIUE the breaking of the marital oath tho
most appalling Of all perjuries, implore
the congress Of the United States to mako
some Righteous, uniform law for oil the
states, and from ocean 10 oooan, on this
SUBJECT OF marriage and divorce.
bet mo say TO the hundreds OF Young
people In this huuse this afternoon. before
you give your heart and hand in holy nlli.
nnce use oil caution. Inquire outside as
TO habits explore the disposition. scruti.
nize the taste, question the ancestry and
nnd out tho ambitions Do not take the
heroes aud tho heroinos Of cheap novels
Tor model. Do not put your lifetime
happiness In the keeping Of man who
has reputation for being little loos5 In
morals, or In the keeping OF n woman who
dresses fast, Remember that, while good
looks are kindly gift OF God, wrinkles
or accident may despuil them. Remem-
ber that Byron was no moro celebrated for
his beauty than for his depraylty. Ro-
member Tint Ahsalom's hair was not more
splendid thnn his habits wero dospicable.
Hear 1t, hear III The only foundation for
happy marriage that has ever boon or ever
will DO Is good character
Divine Help Needed.
Ask God whom you shall marry, II Won
marry ut all. A union formed In PRAYER
Will be happy union, though sickness
pale the cheek. md poverty empty the
bread tray, ind death open tho small
graves, md oil tho path Of life DO strown
with thorns from the marriage altar with
Its wedding march and orange blossoms
clear down to the last farewell ut that
cato whore Isaac and Rebecca, Abraham
md Sarah, Adam and Eve parted.
And let mo say to you who arc In this
relation II you make one man or woman
happy you have not lived in vain. Christ
says that what ho is to tho church you
ought to be 10 each other, and II some.
times through difference OF opinion or
difference Of disposition you mako up your
mind that your marriage was n mistake
patiently bear and forbear, remembering
thut life Mt tho longest Is short, and that
for those who havo been badly mated in
this world death will glvo quick and i'm.
mediate bill Of divorcoment written In let
tors of green grass on quiet graves. And
perhaps, my brother, my slster-porhnps
you may appreciate each other better in
heaven than you have appreciated each
other on earth.
In the Farm Ballads" our American
poet puts into the lips OF rcpeutant hus.
band after life OF married perturbation
| these suggestive words;
And when she dies wish that she would be
laid by me,
And lying together in silence perhaps we will
! ngrce.
And n over we meet in heaven would not
think 1t queer
| II we love each other better because wo quar-
relied here.
Little Infclicltics.
And let mo say to those OF you who are
IN happy married union, avoid first quar-
rCls. Have no unexplained correspond
enco with former admirers; cultivate no
| suspicious; In moment OF bad temper do
not rush out and tell tho neighhors; do
! not let my Of those gadnbouts OF society
| unload In your house their baggage Of CAB
and tittlo tattlc, do not stand on your
| rights; learn how to apologize; do not DO
so proud, or 80 stubborn, or 20 doyilsh
that you will not make up. Remember
that the worst domestic misfortunes and
most soandHlous divorce cases started from
| little infolicities. The whole piled up
train OF ten rail cars telescoped and smash
ed at the foot OF an embnnkment 100 feet
down camO to that catastrophe by getting
two or three inches OF tho track. Some
Of the greatest domestic misfortunes and
the wide resoundlng divorce cases hnvo
started from little Misunderstanding that
were allowed to go ON and go on until
home and rcspeotabillty and religion and
mortal soul went down in tho crash,
orashi
And, fellow citizens as well as follow
Christians, let us have a divine rage
against anything that wars on the mar
riage stnto Blessed institution Instead
of two arms TO fight the battle OF life,
four; instead Of two eyes 20 scrutlnlao tho
path Of life, four; instead OF two shoulders
To lift tho burden Of life, four Twice the
energy, twice tho courage, twice tho holy
ambition, twice tho probability OF world
ly success, twice the prospects OF heaven
Into the matrimonial bower God fotohos
two souls Outside that bower room for
nll contentious and all chickering's, and
oil controversies, but inside tho bower
there Is room for only ono guest-tho
angel OF love. Let that angel stand nt tho
floral doorway OF this Edenio bower with
drawn sword TO how down tho worst foo
OF that bower-easy divorce. And for ov-
cry paradise lost mny there be paradise
regained, and after wo quit our homo here
may wa have brighter homo In heaven,
Mt tho windows Of which this moment are
familiar faces watching for our arrival
md wondering why 50 long we tarry,
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