The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-04-12

uoarit. hear ri Tho only foundation for
happy marriage that has ever been OF ever
will be- is good character.
Ask God whom you shall marry II you
marry 40 an. A union formed IN prayer Will
be- IA happy union, though sickness pale the
ehook. and poverty empty .the sbread tray
and death open the small graves, and al tho
path OF lliO be- siroWn with th0rna from tho
marriage altar with its wedding march and
orange blossoms clear on down 10 the last
farewell az that gate where Isaac and Aebeceai
Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted.
And let me say 20 you who are In this re-
lati0n, n you make one man OK woman hap
by, you have not lived Ia vain. Christ says
that what He Is 10 the church you ought 20
be 10 each other, and II sometimes through
difference Of opinion or difference OF disp0-
stion you make up your mind that your
marriage was a mistake patiently bear and
iorbear, 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 bin of enforcement
written in Letters Of green grass on quiet
graves. And perhaps, my brother, my sis
ter, perhaps you may appreciate each other
better I'm heaven than you have appreciated
each other on earth.
In the "Farm Ballads" our American poet
puts into the lips Of repentant husband
after a life of married perturbation thesesug-
gestiye words:
And when she dies I wish that she would DO
laid by me.
And lying together in silence perhaps We
will agree,
And II ever We meet In heaven would not
think Il 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 quarrels;
have no unexplained correspondence with
former admirers; cultivate no suspicious; In
q moment Of bad temper do not rush out and
tell the neighbors; do not let any Of those
gad-abouts of society unload In your house
their baggage OF CAB and title tattle; do not
stand on your rights; learn how 20 apollo
gize; do not be so proud, OF so stubborn, or
50 devilish that you will not mako up. Re
member that the worst domestic misfortunes
and most scandaious 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 OF
three inches of the track. Some Of the great
est} domestic misiortunes and the wide re-
| sounding divorce cases have started from
] little MISUNDERSTANDING that we're allowed &c
| 60 on and 90 on until home and respectable
! ity and religion and immortal soul Wen
| 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 e
fight the battle Of life, four; instead Of two
eyes to scrutinize the path Of life, four; in
stead Of two shoulders to lift the burden o
life, four. Twice the energy, twice tn,
courage, twice the holy ambition, twice th,
probability OF worldly success, twice the
prospects of heaven. Into the matrimonial
bower God fetches two souls. Outside tina
bower room for all contentious, and all biok
erlngs, and all controversies, but inside tn
bower there is room for only one guest-th
angel Of love. Let that angel stand at tn
floral doorway Of this Edenic bower will
drawn sword to hew down the worst foe o
that boWer-easy divorce. And for ever
paradise lost may there be paradise re
gained. And after we quit our homo her
may we have brighter home in heaven, a
the windows Of which this moment are ia
miliar faces watching for our arrival an,
wondering why so long we tarry.