The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-04-05

Heart, hear 80 Tho only foundation Tor
happy marriage that has ever been OF ever
will Do Be- good character.
Ask God whom you shall marry Il You
marry az OH. A union formed I'm prayer viii
bo happy union, though sickness pale tho
check. and poverty empty the bread tray
and death open the small graves and an tho
path OF liie be- strewn with thoms from tho
marriage altar with its wedding march and
orange blossoms clear on down 20 the last
farewell nt that gate whore Isaac and hohoceni
Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted.
And lot me sax 30 you who are Ala this re-
latl0n, IL you make one man or woman haI-
py, you have not lived On vain. Christ says
that what Ho Is 30 tho church you ought 60
be- 90 each other, and n sometimes through
difference Of opinion or difference OF disp0-
siuon you make up your mind that your
marriage was q 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 viii give
quick and immediate bin Of enforcement
written IN letters OF green grass on quiet
graves. And perhaps, my brother, my sis
ter, perhaps you may appreciate eacn 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 husband
gestiye words.
And when she dies 1 wish that she would DO
laid by me,
And lying together IN silence perhaps We
will agree,
And II ever we meet IN heaven I would not
think 1t queer
II we love each other better because we quar-
relied here.
And let me say 10 those Of you who are In
| happy married union avoid first quarrelsi
| have no unexplained correspondence with
/ former admirers; cultivate no suspicious; In
/ a moment Of bad temper do not rush out and
| tell the neighb0rs; do not let any OF those
] gad-abouts OF society unload in your house
| their baggage Of CAB and little tattle; do not
/ stand on your rights; learn how TO apollo
| gize; do not be 50 proud, or so stubborn, OF
80 devilish that you will not make up. Re
member that the worst domestic misiohunes
and most scandalous divorce cases started
from little inielicities. The whole piled NJ
train of ten rail cars telescOped and smashed
| at the foot of an embankment 100 feet dow
| came to that catastrophe by getting two Of
three inches or the track Some Of the great
estl domestic mislouunos and the wide 40
sounding divorce cases have started from
little misunderstanding that were allowed {,
60 ON and 80 on until home and respectable
/ Ivy ana ItAAkADA anu lihiA|AANA hNAA WNiA
down in the crash, crash.
And, fellow citizens as well as fellow Chris
tians, let us have a divine rage against any
thing that wars on the marriage state
Blessed institution! Instead Of two arms Z
fight the battle Of life four; instead Of tw
eyes to scrutinize the path of life, four; in
stead Of two shoulders to lift the burden q
life, four Twice the energy, twice tn
courage, twice the holy ambition, twice tn
probability of worldly success, twice tn
prospects Of heaven. Into the matrimoniI
bower God f6tches two souls. Outside tina
bower room for all contentious, and all biol
eriugs and all controversies, 1ut inside Ga
bower there is room for only one gie,t-th
angel of love. Let that angel stand at ID
floral doorway Of this Edenic bower wit
drawn sword to hew down the worst foe {
that bower-easy divorce. And for ever
paradise lost may there be a paradise r
gained. And after we quit our homo hel
may we have a brighter home in heaven {
the windows Of which this moment are fl
miliar faces watching for our arrival an
wondering why so long we tarry.