The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-27
UNHAPPILY MARRIED.
REV DR.. TsLMAGE breaches UPON
AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT.

AN IMPORTANT SU6JEC
Sturdy Blows in Behalf OF the Home an"
.,.,nst the Dissoluteness ofModern So
v,,o,.sale Divorce Condemned.
The Blessed Marriage state.
Nvv YORK March 17.-Rev DR..
Tslnace chose as the subject of his af-
ternoon sermon in the Academy OF
Music today topic of national inter
est-viz, WHOLESALE Divorce. The
great audience repeatedly showed its
appreciatior OF the sentiments express
ed bv the reverend speaker. and his
sturdy blows in behalf of the protec
ton Of the household and against the
dissoluteness Of modern society We're
received With marked appreciation.
The text selected was Matthew xix, s,
ssNhat. therefore, God hath joined to-
gether let not man put asunder.
That there are hundreds and thous-
ands of infelicitous homes in America
no one viii doubt. Ifthere We're only
one skeleton in the closet, that might
be locked up and abandoned, but in
many household there is a skeleton
in the hallway and a skeleton IN all
the apartments.
''Unhappily married" are two words
descriptive of many homestead. IL
needs no orthodox minister to proveto
badly mated pair that there IS hell.
They are there now. sometimes
o,.snd and gracious woman will be
inns incarcerated. and her life a cruel
fyion as was the case with Mrs. 81
cournev, the great poetess and the
great soul. Sometimes consecrateo
man will be united to fury, as was
John Wesley, or united to vixen, as
was John Milton. Sometimes. and
generally, both parties are to blame,
and Thomas CARLYLE was an intolera-
bic scold. and his wife smoked and
swore. and Froude, the historian, pull
ed aside the curtain from the lifelong
souabble at Craigenputtock and Five,
Cheyne Row. i.
Some say that for the alienation of
all these domestic disorders OF winch
we hear easy divorce is a good pre-
scription. God sometimes authorizes.
divorce as certainly as he authorizes
marriage. I have justas much regard
for one lawfully divorced as l have
for one lawfully married. But you
know and I know that wholesale cl-
yorce is one of our national scoprges.
I am not surprised at this when l
think of the influences which have
been abroad initiating against the
marriage relation.
For many years the platforms Of the
country rang with talk about a free
love millennium. There were meet
ines of this kind held in the Cooper
Institute, New York; fremont temple,
Boston, and all over the land. Some
of the women who We're most prom1-
nent in that movement have since
been distinguished for great promlS-
cuosity of affection. Popular themes
for such occasions were the tyranny
of man, the oppression Of the marriage
relation. women's rights and the aftin-
tiles. Prominent speakers We're wo-
men with short curls and short dresses
and very long tongues, everlastlngly
at war with God because they We're
created women, while on the platform
sat meek men with soft accent and
cowed demeanor, apologize Tor mas
cuiinity andholding the parasols while
the termagant orators went on preach
ing the doctrine of free love.
That campaign of about 20 years set
more devils into the marriage relation
than will be exercised in the next 81.
Men and women went home from such
meetings so permanently confused as
to who were their wives and husbands
that they never got out of their per
plexitv, and the criminal andthe civil
courts tried to disentangle the "lllad
of woes, and this one got alimony, and
that one gotta limited divorce, and this
mother kept the children on condition
that the father could sometimes come
and look at them, and these went into
poorhouses, and those went into an IN
sane asylum, and those went into a
dissolute public life, and all went to
destruction. The mightiest war ever
made against the marriage institution
was that free love campaign, some
times under one name and sometimes
under another. i
Another influence that has warred
upon the marriage relation has been
polyganav in Utah. That was stere-
otyped caricature of the marriage re
lation and has poisoned the whole
land. You might as well think you
can have an arm in state of NORTH
cation and vet the whole body not be
sickened as to have those territories |
polygamized and yet the body Of the
nation not feel the putrefactlon. Hear
it, good men and women of America,
that so long ago as 1862 a law was
passed by congress forbidding polyga-
nv in the territories and In all
places where they had jurisdiction:
Twenty-four years passed along and
Eve administrations before the first |
brick was Knocked from that fortress
of iberhnism.
Every new president. in his inaugu-
raj, tickled that monster with the straw
of condemnation, and every congress
stulti6ed itself By proposing some plan |
that would not work. Polygamy
stood more intrenched and more braz- |
en-, and. more missant, and more brag- |
gart, and more internal. James Bu-
chanan, much abused man of his day, |
did more for the extirpation of this
viTlainy than most of the subsequent |
administrations. Mr.. Buchanan sent
out an army, and although twas halt.
ed in It's work still he accomplished |
more than some Of the administrations
who did nothing but talk, talk, talk:
At last, but not until it had poisoned |
generations, polygamy has received its
deathblow.
Polygamy in Utah warred against
the marriage relation throughout the
land. 1t was impossible to have such |
an awful sewer of iniquity sending up
its miasma, which was waited by the
winds north, south. east, and west,
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