Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-12
Love md Marriage.

CHE Observations Of a Philosopher
Friend of Ours.)
! Charley Bluff had money enough,
So he got him a wife, the pest OF his life y
"And bark, what discord followsl Each
thing meets
In mere oppugnancy."
-Trollus and Cressida.
FOR thou hast given me IN this beau
teous face
A world OF earthly blessings TO nv soul
If sympathy and love unto our thoughts. 4"
.. Henry ~, /. 1.
There's a bliss beyond all that poets
have told,
When souls that are linked In ono
heavenly tie,
With hearts never changing and brows
never cold,
Love on through all Ills, and love on
till they die;
And, o. If there be an Elysium on earth,
1t is this, 1t is this.
Moore.
He Is thy Lord: and worship thou
Him Ps. 40.
Government, science, philosophy, COM
MERGE, manufacture, finance, art, and all
the divers investigatory ologies OF the
world Of thought and human exploration,
with their bright halos and borders and
dazzling promises, Fame and Fortune,
are no doubt, very fine occupations for
aspiring mortality; nevertheless, the pas
sicnate idea that most profoundly, most
powerfully, most overwhelmingly pos
sesses and controls man and womanklnd
is love and marriage. The Creator made
them male and female. The story Is: SO
God created man in his own image; I'm the
image Of God created He him: male and
female created He them. Each is incom-
plets alone, and, with a thousand long
ings, desires the other. The one Graves
beauty. gentleness, tender affection. in
stinctive good sense, grace reyerentiaI
honor, dependence, pure piety, and the
soft, low, murmuring music OF the soul
The other wants protection, strength,
courage, force Of character wisdom,
arge-heartedness, patience, tenderness,
and all embracing love, self-reliance, and
after the divine image and
4 worshipping soul, that she may recog-
nize and gladly own her lord and gov
ernor and king. When such mutual pair |
meet, are supplemented and made one.
the union Is divine, and appears in its |
highest nobleness. The loneliness and |
grace Of woman makes the soft and beau |
iful ermine that lines the royal robe Of |
manhood, OF perfect righteousness. The |
grand contamination Is 'Insatiate, yet |
intense life in the fulhlment |
u the mind Of God: the progeny princes |
oil no %
vas Cupid and Psyche; love and the re-
ponsive soul. The heaven or the Maham.
nedan is a world OF womanIy loneliness.
The reality OF our civilization is the hon
,rable husband and wife-loving, honor
ng, cherishing. The subllmation OF mar
led love with ideal manhood and woman
Iood is shown forth in that most beautiful |
4 love lyrics, the 18th Psalm.
1t is marvellous how our holy religion |
oes magnify and make honorable and
,lorious, with fits light and beauty. all l
hat concerns our race. Nothing more
han love and marriage.
Tho first OF mans history Is a love-
tory. The constant emblem and figure
throughout the Scriptures is beautiful
natch- making-some phase of love and
marriage And the last and most glo-
lous promise TO redeemed mankind Is the
'S" JcTusdiSm descending from Heaven |
$ bride adorned for her husband. The
rand triumph Is the marriage OF the
amb--the strange mystery Of Christ and
lis church.
1t is not wonderful that one branch OF
ne Church OF Christ regards marriage as
sacrament; that another speaks OF the
holy estimate OF matrimony." In very
act, love and marriage in perfection
ne wife as the fruitful vine and the chill
rem as olive-branches about the table
resent US humanity in perfection. In
elect and sensibility best flourish. ex-
and. and giorify God in Edens OF that
)rt.
Outside or such Views as these, down on
'wer levels, on practical and realistic
asses. are burlesques OF marriage and de-
radations OF humanity-cat-and-do ilfe.
he degrees Of happiness OF married life
lnge from condition very near 20 that
Eden down 20 one hardly distinguish
bio from the lower regions. And the
arning Is wise about entering lt-not :
lshly and unadyisedly. but wisely, dis
eetly, soberly. and In the fear Of God.
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