The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-18

ocean. on this subject Of marriage and d.
vorce.
Let me say 20 the hundreds Of young
people IN this house this afternoon. be-
fore you give your heart and hand in
7 holy alliance. use all caution; inquire out
side as 10 habits. explore the disposition.
scrutinize the taste. question the ances-
Try ard find out the ambitions. Do not
I take the heroes and the deroines OF cheap
novels for q model Do not put your life
time happiness in the keeping Of a man
who has a reputation for being a little
loose in morals. or in the keeping Of
woman who dresses fast. Remember that
while good looks are a kindly gift OF
God. wrinkles or accident may despoH
them Remember that Byron was no
more celebrated for his beauty than FOR
his depravity. Remember that Absalom's
hair was not more splendid that his habits
were despicsble Hear il. hear it, The
only foundation for happy marriage that
has ever been or ever viii be is good char
acter
Ask God whom you shall marry, IL you
marry al all. a union formed in prayer
Will be a happy union. though sickness
pale the cheek, and poverty empty the
bread-tray. and death open the small
graves. and all the path Of life be strewn
with thorns. from the marriage altar with
Its wedding march and orange blossoms
gate where Isaac and Rebecca. Abraham
and Sarah, Adam and Eve. parted.
And let me say 10 you who are in this
relation. II 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 if sometimes
through difference Of opinion or difference
OF disposition, you make up your mind
that your marriage was a mistake, pa
tiently bear and forbear. remembering
that life at the longest is short, and that
for those who have bee: 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 a repentant hus-
band. after life OF married perturbation,
these suggestive words:
And when she dies l wish that she would
be laid by me.
And lying together in silence, perhaps
we will agree.
And if ever we meet in heaven, I would
not think it queer
II we love each other better because we
quarrelled here.
And let me say 10 those Of you who are
in happy married union, avoid first quar-
rels; have no unexplained correspondence
with former admirers; cultivate no sus-
picions; in a moment of bad temper do
not rush out and tell the neighbors; do not
let any of those gadsbouts Of society I'M
load in your house their baggage of CAB
and uttle-tattle; do not stand on your
rights; learn how to apologize: do not be
so proud or so stubborn, or so devilish that
you will not make up. Remember that the
worst domestic misfortunes and most
scandalous divorce cases started from lit
tie infelicities. The whole piled-1p train
Of ten rail cars telescoped and smashed
at the foot OF an embankment one hundred
feet down came to that catastrophe, by
getting two or three inches off the track
Some OF the greatest domestic misfortunes
and the Understanding divorce cases
have started from little misunderstanding
that were allowed to go on and go on
until home, and respectability. and relig-
ion, and immortal soul went down in the
crash, crash!
And fenow-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 scrutinize
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 prob
ability CT worldly success. twice the pros
poets 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 floral doorway of this
Edenic bower with drawn sword to hew
down the worst foe of that bower-easy
divorce. And for every paradise lost may
there be a paradise resained. And after
we quit our home here may we have a
brighter home in heaven, at the windows
Of which this moment are familiar faces
watching for our arrival and wondering
why so long We tarry.