The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-26

consenisl Matrimonial Bonds Every
Wise Tcman sui!deeh Esr Own Honno'
Was His Tex.
This sermon OF Dr.. TaImage is q
great encouragement to women VINO
have to earn their OWE living, SIS well
as to sll toilers with hand or oraln;
text, Proverbs xiv, l, Every wise
woman buil6eta her house.
Woman a mere a5j janet to man, an
appendix 10 the mASculiUe volume,
an appendase, 8 sort o. sfterthought,
something throIa in 10 make things
sven-that is the heresy entertained
and implied by some men. This is
evident 10 them because A0sm was
first created and then Eve. They don't
read the whole story, or they would
find that the porpoIsa and the boar
and the hawk were created before
Adam, 50 that his argument, drawn
from priority Of creation, might prove
that the sheep and the deg were great
er than man. No. Woman was an
independent creation and was intend
ed, If she chose, to live alone, to work
alone, act alone, think alone and fight
her battles alone. Tne Bible says It IS
not good for man 10 be alone, but
never says it is not good for womsn to
be alone, and the simple fact IS tha!
many women VINO are harnessed for
life in the marriage rels';on would be
8 thousan6fol6 better Of If they were
alone.
Who are these men who year after
year hang around hotels and engine
houses and thea.er doors, sn6 come in
and out to bother busy clerks and
Merchants and mechanics, doing moth
ing, when there is plenty to dos They
are men supported By their wives and
mothers. II the statistics of any of
our cities could be taken on this sub
ject, you would find that vast null
titude of women rot only support
themselves, but masculines. a grest
legion of men amount to nothing, and
woman by marriage manacled to
one Of these nonenities needs condo
lence. a woman standing outside the
marriage relation is several hundred
thousand times better off than won
an badly married. Many bride in
stead of a wreath OF orange blossoms
might more properly wear bunch OF
nettles and nightShsde, and instead Of
the wedding march 8 more appr PIRATE
tune would be the dead march in
Saul, !" and instead of banquet OF
confectionery and ices there might be
more appropriately spread table
covered with apples OF Sodom.
Many an attractive woman Of good
sound sense in other things has mar
ried one OF these men to reform him.
What was the result2 Like when
dove, noticing that vulture was ra-
pacious and cruel, set about to reform
it, and said, Il have mild disposi-
ton and ! ike peace and was brought
up in the quiet OF dovecot, and I
will bring the vulture to the same
liking by marrying him" So one day
after the vulture declared he would
give up his carnivorous habits and
cease longing for blood of flock and
herd, at an altar OF rock covered with
moss and lchen, the twsin were mar
ried, bald headed eagle officiating,
the yulture saying, with ali my do
minion OF earth and sky ! thee endow
and promise to love and cherish till
death do US part" But one day the
dove in her fright saw the vulture
busy at 8 carcass and cried: Stop
thai! Did you not promise me that
you would quit your carnivorous and
filthy habits If ] lmaeried your ''Yes,"
said the vulture, but if you don't
like my way you can leave" and
with one angry s,roke OF the beak
and another fierce clulc the claw
the vulture left the dow eyeless and
wingless and ifeless. And flock OF
robbins Lying past cried TO each other
and said: See there! That comes
from dove marrying a vulture to re-
form himr'
Many woman who has had the
hand of young inebriate offered, but
declined it,or VINO was asked 10 chain
her life to man selfish or Of bad tenn
per and refused the shackles, will
bless God throughout all eternity that
she escaped that earthly pandemoni-
um.
Besides all this, in our country
about 10000 men were sacrificed in
our civil var, and that decreed 1,000,-
600 women to celibacy. Besides that,
SINCE the war several armies Of men
as large as the Federal and Confeder-
ate armies rut together have fallen
under malt liquors and distilled spir-
its, so full OF poisoned ingredients
that the work vas done more rapidly,
and the victims fell while yet young.
And If SO, 600 men are destroyed every
year by strong drink before marriage
that makes in the SO years since the
war 1,650,000 men slain and DEGREES
1,650,0 900 women to cellbacy. Take,
then, the fact that so many women
are unhappy in their marriage, and
the fact rhatthe slaughter OF 2, $50, 900
men by war and rum combined de-
cides that at lesst that number of
women shall be unbalanced for life,
my text comes in with cheer and
potency and appropriateness that you
may never have seen in i before
when it says, Every WISE woman
buildeth her house"--that is, let WON
an Dc 0er own arcl1lecE, lay OUT ner
own plans, be her own supervisor,
achieve her own destiny.
In addressing those women who
have to fight the battle alone, I con-
gratulate you on your happy escape.
Rejoice forever that you will not have
to navigate the faults Of the other sex
when you have faults enough of your
own. Think of the bereavements you
avoid, of the risks of unassimilated
temper which you will not have to
run, Of the cares you will never have
to carry and of the opportunity OF
outside usefulness from which marital
life would have partially Gebarred
you, and that you are free to 60 and
come IS one VINO has the responsible
ties of household can seldom be.