The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-03-20

hOihihS 10 UOuuu lOr AAUdnN. 1Hc
train may not reach Albany, for it may
be thrown from the track The young
man MAJ not reach drunkard's grave,
for something may throw him off the
iron track of evil habit; but the proba-
bility is that the train that starts to-
morrow morning at o'clock for AL
bany will get there, and the probabil-
lty is that the young man who has the
habit of strong drink fixed on him be-
fore 25 or 80 years of age will arrive at
a drunlSard's grave She knows he
drinks, although he tries to hide it by
chewing cloves. Everybody knows he
drinks. Parents warn, neighbors and
friends warn. She will marry him, she
will reform him.
If she is unsuccessful in the expert
ment, why then the divorce law will
emancipate her, because habitual
Drunkenness is cause for divorce in
Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Connecti-
cut, and nearly all the states So the
poor thing goes to the altar of sacri-
fee. If you will show me the poverty
struck streets in the city will show
you the homes of the women who mar
ried men to reform them. In one case
out of ten thousand it may be sue
cessful experiment. l never saw the
successful experiment. But have a
rigorous divorce law, and that woman
will say: IF l am affianced to that
man it is for life"
A rigorous divorcce law will also do
much to hinder hasty and inconsiderate
marriage. Under the impression that
one can be easily released, people enter
the relation without inquiry and re-
flection. Romance and impulse rule
the day. Perhaps the only ground for
the marriage compact is that she likes
his looks and he admires the graceful
way she passes around the ice cream at
the picnic! 1t is all they know about
each other. 1t is all the preparation
for life. woman that could not make
a loaf of bread to save her life will
swear to cherish and obey.
A Christian will marry an atheist, and
that always makes conf joined wretched-
ness, for if man does not believe
there is God, he is neither to be trust
ed wife dollar nor with your life
long happiness Having read much
about love in cottage, people brought
up in ease will go and starve in hovel.
BY the wreck of 10000 homes, by the
holocaust of 10000 sacrificed men and
women, by the hearthstone of the fam
lily which is the cornerstone of the
state, and in the name of that God
who hath set up that family institu-
tion and who hath made the breaking
of the marital oath the most appalling
of all perjuries, implore the congress
of the United States to make some
righteous, uniform law for all the
states, and from ocean to ocean. on
this subject of marriage and divorce.
Let me say to the hundreds of young
people in this house this afternoon, be-
fore you give your heart and hand in
holy alliance, explore the disposition.
scrutinize the taste, question the an
cestry, 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 reputation
fof being 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. Remember that Byron was no
more celebrated for his beauty than
for his depravity. Remember that Abb
solom's hair was not more splendid
than his habits were despicable. Hear
it, hear it! The only foundation for
happy marriage that has ever been or
ever will be is good character,
Ask God whom you shall marry, if
you marry at all A union formel in
prayer will be 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 tholns, from the
marriage altar with its wedding march
and orange blossoms clear on down to
the last farewell at that gate where
Isaac and Rebecca, Abraham and SAP
ah, 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 if sometimes through differ
ence of opinion or difference of dis
position you make up your mind that
your marriage was 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
immediate bill of divorcement written
in letters 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.
And let me say to those of you who
are in happy married union, avoid first
quarrels; have no unexplained CORE
spondence with former admirers; culti-
vate no suspicious; in moment of bad
temper do not rush out and tell the
neighbors; do not let any of the round
abouts of society unload in your house
their baggage of CAB and tittle-tattle;
do not stand on your rights;
learn how to apologies do not
be SO proud, or SO stubborn, or
so ,devilish that you will not make
up, Remember that the worst domcs-
tic, misfortunes and most .scandalous
divorce. cases started from little in
felicities. The whole piled-up train of
ten rail cars teleseoped and smashed