Milford chronicle., 1895-03-22

to habits, explore the disposition, soruti-
nize the taste, question the ancestry and
find out the ambitions. Do not take the
heroes and the heroines of cheap novels
for model. Do not put your lifetime
happiness in the keeping Of man who
has a reputation for being a little loose in
morals, OF in the keeping Of woman who
dresses fast. Remember that, while good
looks are a kindly gift of God, wrinkles
or accident may despoil them. Remem-
Der that Byron was no more celebrated for
his beauty than for his depravity. Re
member that Absalom s hair was not more
! splendid than his habits were despicable.
| Hear it, hear It'll The only foundation for
/ happy marriage thas has ever been or ever
will be is good character.
Divine Help Needed.
Ask God whom you shall marry, II you
marry at all A union formed in prayer
will be a happy nnion, though sickness
pale the cheek, and poverty empty the
bread tray, and death open the small
graves, and all the path Of life DO strewn
with thorns from the marriage altar with
its wedding march and orange blossoms
clear down to the last farewell at that
gate where Isaac and Rebeoca, AbEabAm
and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted.
And let me say to you who are in this
relation If you make one man or woman
happy you have not lived in vain. Christ
says that what he is to the church you
ought to be to each other, and II some
times through difference Of opinion or
difference Of disposition you make up your
mind that your marriage was a mistake
patiently bear and forbear, remembering
that life at the longest is short, and that
for those who have been badly mated In
this world death will give quick and i'm
mediate bill of enforcement written in let.
ters Of green grass on quiet graves. And
perhaps, my brother, my sister-perhaps
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 repentant 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
agree.
And if ever we meet in heaven would not
think il Qu,
II we love e.. j other better because we quar-
relied here.
Little InFeIicities.
And let Ire s..y to those Of you who are |
In happy married union, avoid first quar-
rels. Have no unexplained correspond |
ence with former admirers; cultivate no |
suspioions in a moment of bad temper do |
not rush out and tell the neighbors; do /
not let any of those gadabouts of society /
unload in your house their baggage of CAB |
and little tattle, do not stand on your
rights Learn how to apologize; do not be 1
SO proud, or SO stubborn, or so devilish
that you will not make up. Remember
that the worst domestic mlsfOrtunes and |
most scan dnlous divorce cases started from
little infelicities. The whole piled up
train of ten rail cars telescoped and smash
ed at the foot Of an embankment 100 feet
down came to that catastrophe by getting
two or three inches off the track. Some
of the greatest domestic misfOrtunes and
the wide resounding divorce cases have
started from little misunderstanding that
were allowed to go on and go on until
home and respeotability and religion and
mortal soul went down in the crash,
crash
And, fellow citizens as we'll as fellow
Christians, let us have a divine rage
against anything that wars on the mar
riage state. Blessed institution Instead
Of two arms to fight the battle Of life
four; instead Of two eyes to sorutinize the
path Of life, four instead Of two shoulders
to lift the burden of life, four Twice the
energy, twice the courage, twice the holy
ambition, twice the probability Of world
ly success, twice the prospects Of heaven.
Into the matrimonial bower God fetches
two souls. Outside that bower room for
all contentious, and all chickering's, and
all controversies, but inside the bower
there is room for only one guest-the
angel Of love. Let that angel stand at the
loral doorway Of this Edenio bower with
irawn sword to hew down the worst foe
If that bower-easy divorce. And for ev
ny paradise lost may there be paradise
egained, and after we quit our home here
nay We have a brighter home in heaven,
1t the windows of which this moment are
amiliar faces watching for our arrival
md wondering why so long we tarry,