The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-27
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By the wreck of 10. .000homes, by the
holocaust of 1000 sacrificed men and
women, by the hearthstone OF the fam
the state and in the name of that God
who hath set up the family institution,
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 righte-
Gus, uniform law for all the states. and
from ocean to ocean, on this subject OF
marriage and divorce.
Let mesay to the hundreds of young
people in this house this afternoon. be.
fore YOU give your heart and hand in
holy alliance use all caution. Inquire
outside as to habits, explore the DISPOSE
ton, scrutinize the taste. question the
ancestry and find out the ambitions.
Do not take the heroes and the heroines
of cheap novels for a model. Do not
put your lifetime happiness in the
keeping of man who has a
reputation of being little loose
in morals, orin the keeping of a wo-
man 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 Absa-
lom hair was not more splendid than
his habits were despicable. Hear it,
hear it, The only foundation for hap
py marriage that has ever been or ever
will be is good character
Ask God whom you shall marry, if
you marry at all. 4 union formed 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 thorns from the
marriage alter with its wedding march
and orange blossoms clear down to the
last farewell at that gate where Isaac
and Rebecca, Abraham 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 i'll
vain. Christ says that what he is to
the church you ought to be to each
other, and if sometimes through diff
ference of opinion or difference of dis
position you make up your mind that
your marriage was mistake, patient
ly bear and forbear, remembering that
life at the lon gest 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
sister-perhaps you may appreciate
each other better in heaven than you
have appreciated each other on earth.
In the Farm Ballads" our Ameri-
can poet puts into the lips of a repent
ant husband after long life of mar,
ried 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
If we love each other better because
we quarrelled.here.
And let me say to those of you who
are in happy married union, avoid
first quarrels. Have no unexplained
correspondence with formeradmirers :;
cultivate no suspicious; in a moment
of bad temper donot 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 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 little infelicities.
The whole piled up train
of ten rail cars telescoped and
smashed 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 60 on and 60 on until home andre
spectability and religion and mortal
soul went down in the crash, crash!
And, fellow citizens as well as fel-
low Christians, let us have divine
rage against anything that wars On
the marriage 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 Ito lift the burden of
life, four. Twice the energy, twice
the courage, twice the holy ambition,
twice the probability of worldly sue
cess, twice the prospects of heaven.
Into the matrimonial bower God
fetches two souls Outside that bower
room for all contentious, and all bick-
erings, and all controversies, but in
side 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 regained, and after we quit
our home here may we have a bright
er home in heaven, at the windows of
which this moment are familiar faces
watching for our arrival and wonder
ing why so long we tarry.
A Tragedy of the Flames.
New YORK, March 2O.-In his heroic
endeavor TO save his wife and children