Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-04-03

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| household who went on on pleasure eIcul>
sion to Newport or q business excursion to
Chicago. Married ct the BRIDES house. No
| cards. There are States Of the Union which
practically put a premium upon the dasin-
| tegration of She marriage relation, while
| there are other States, like our own New York
| State, that had for q long time the p9e-emi-
nent idiocy Of making marriage lawful al
| twelve and fourteen years OF age.
The Congress Of the United States needs :.
move for q change Of the National Constitu-
hon and to appoint a commftee-not made
| up OF single gentlemen, but Of men Of fami-
| lies, and their families in Washington--who
| shall prepare a good, honest, righteous. COM
| prehensive. uniform law that will control
everything from Sandy Hook to the Golden
Horn. That will put an end to broken ties
| in marriages. That will send divorce law
| yers into a decent business. That will set
people agitated for many years on the ques-
uon OF how shall they get sw1y from eacr
! other to planning how they cal adjust them
selves to the more or less sunfavoFable circum.
stances.
.aio,c difficult divorce will pat an estoppe.
! to great extent upon marriage as a fnan-
! cial speculation. There are men who go in
to the relation just as they go into Wall street
| to purchase shares. The female to be invited
into the partnership OF wedlcck is utterly
| unattractive and in disposition a suppressed
Vesuvius. Everybody knows IL but this mas
culine candidate for matrimo onial orders.
| through the commercial agency or through
the county records, finds oul how much
estate IA to be inherited, and he calculates it.
He thinks out how long it will be before the
/ old man will die, and VIII etheI he can stand
the refractory temper until he does die. and
| then he enters the relation. fof ha says. "u
| 1 cannot stand It, then through the divorce
law I'll back out" That process is going on
all the time, and men enter the relation with
out any moral principle. without any affec.
a q a
ulation as anything that transpised yesterday
In Union Pacific, Illinois Central or Della
ware and Lackawanna.
Now, suppose a man understood, as he
ought to understand, that IL he goes into that
relation there is no possibility Of his getting
out, or no probability, he would be more slow
to put his meek in the yoke. Re would say
10 himself, ''Rather than a Caribbean whirl-
wind with whole feet OF shipping in its
arms give me zephyr on fields OF sunshine
and gardens of peace"
Let me say to the hundreds Of young peo
pie in this house this ternoon, before you
give your heart AMI hand in holy alliance use
all cautions. Inquire outside Is to habits,
explore the disposition. scrutinaze the taste,
question the ancestry and find out the am
billions. Do not take the heroes and the
heroines of cheap novels for Q model. Do
not put your lifetime happiness In the keep
Eng OF a man who has n reputation Tor being
n little loose in morals or in the keeping OF
woman who dresses fast. Remember that,
while good looks are kindly gift of God,
wrinkles or accident may despoil them. Re
member 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 fol
happy marriage that has ever been or ever
will be is good character.
Ask God whom you shall marry II yop
marry at all. A union formed In prayer viii
be happy union, though sickness pale the
cheek. and poverty empty the bread tray,
and death open the small grav'e, and all the
path of life be strewn with thorns from the
marriage altar with its wedding march and
orange blossoms clear on down to the last
farewell at that gate where Isaac and Rebecoa,
Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted.
Aud Jet ne say to you who are in this re-
Iation, if you make one man Oh woman hap.
py, you have not lived in vain. Christ says
that what he is to the church you ought to
be to each other. and il sometimes through
difference Of opinion or difference Of dtspo-
sition you make up your mind that your
marriage was mistake patiently bear and
Sorbear, 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 immediate bill of enforcement
written in letters Of green grass on quiet
graves. And perhaps, my brother, my SIS
ter, perhaps you may appreciate each other
better in heaven than you havo appreciated
each other on earth.
In the ''Farm Ballads" our American poet
puts into the lips Of a repentant husband
after life Of married perturbation these sug.
gestive 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 it queer
II We love each other better because we quar-
relied here.
And let me say to those Of you who are IL
happy married union avoid first quarrels;
have no unexplained correspondence with
former admirers; cultivate no suspicious; in
| q moment of bad temper do not rush out and
tell the neighbors; do not let any of those
gad-abouts of society unload in your house
their baggage of CAB and title tattle; do not
stand on your rights; learn how to apollo
gize; do not be SO proud, or SO stubborn, OF
so devilish that you will not make up. Re-
member that the worst domestic misfotunes
| and most scandalous divorce cases started
from little infelicities. The whole piled up
train OF ten rail cars teiescoped and smashed
| at the foot of an embankment 100 feet down
| came to that catastrophe by getting two OF
| three inches off the track. Some of the great
| estl domestic misfortunes and the wide re-
| sounding divorce cases have started from
were AilOWtu u
| go on and go on until home and respectable
| tty and religion and immortal soul wen-
down in the crash, crashi
And, fellow citizens az well as fellow Chris
tians, let us have q divine rage against any
| shing that wars on the marriage state.
| Blessed institution! Instead of two arms to
aght the battle of life, four; instead of two
| syes to scrutinize the path Of life, four; in
| stead Of two shoulders to lift the burden OF
life, four. Twice the energy, twice the
soura2e. twice the holy ambition, twice the
| probapiirty OF worldly success, twice the
| prospects OF heaven. Into the matrimonial
| bower God fetches TWO souls. Outside that
| bower room for all contentious and all bick-
iringS. and all controversies, but inside the
| bower there is room for only one guest-the
angel of love. Let that angel stand at the
| doral doorway Of this Edenic bower with
| 1rawn sword to hew down the worst foe Of
that bower-easy divorce. And for every
| paradise lost may there be paradise re-
| gained. And after we quit our home here
| nay We have a brighter home In heaven, at
| ;he windows Of which this moment are ia
| niliar faces watching for our arrival and
rendering why so long We tarry,