The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31

monies, for, when the couple appeared
before him, he refused TO perform the
ceremony. He said that forty-two
years was too great difference in age
between bride and groom, and they had
TO go away unwed, although Mrs. Mil
Ter assured him that all parties con-
cerned were satisfied So they will
seek some justice in Illinois who does
not believe that age cuts any figure
in married happiness. Each of the
wives died a natural death, and not
the shadow of suspicion has ever at
tached to the bereaved husband in any
one of his seven Affections. He has
had the sympathy of the community
In a large measure, and has always
promptly set about counting new
wife in the intervals of his work at
the foundry. He says that he expects
to meet all his wives in heaven. Whose
husband will he be then? VIII he be
the husband Of his first or last wife
or Of all of them?
Christ was once asked by a Sadducee
who would be the husband Of a woman
who married seven brothers In success
sion. Whose wife would she be in the
esurrection?" was the question. He
answered: I'VE do err, not knowing the
Scriptures nor the power of COD. For
in the resurrection they neither marry
nor are given in marriage, but are as
angels of the God in heaven"
HOW LUTHER ANSWERED 1T.
Martin Luther answered this question
in a fashion that made him very IN
p pula- tn the pecpe. The landgrave
of Hesse had a wife Of whom he grew
tired and he consulted Luther as to the
decency of taking another. To the
horror Of many people Luther agreed
with the landgrave and said he could
see no reason why he should not take
q pleaS2nter companion.
When asked who would be the wife
OF BeileVille in heaven many Chicago
ministers merely quoted the words OF
Christ that there is no marriage, no
giving in marriage, in heaven Some
refused to speak at all on the question,
saying that the heavenly life was not
to be measured by the ties Of this cath
and that no good could come Of discuss
ing the standing in heaven of the often
married. The phrase that marriages
are made in heaven is held by minis
tere to be a phrase that has misled very
many people and is responsible for the
misconceptions of a majority. "A great
many persons think that the phrase
marriages are made in heaven Is con-
tanned somewhere in the scriptures"
one prominent clergyman said: They
attribute every Well-known maxim
to either the Bible or Shakespeare, and
I have often heard this quoted as an
excuse for a silly marriage on the
ground that it was a part of holy writ"
DR. H w. Thomas, of the Peoples
church, laughed grimly when the ques
ton was put to him and answered de-
literately:
THE question of whose husband
man who has married more than once
will be in heaven is an old one. But
is it worth discussion? A man that
marrieS eight women may expect to
meet them all in heaven, but do many
of US care to know which will be his
wife? [ suppose it is ali right to marry
eight times if man wishes to, but it
seems to be going a little outside of
self-respect to do it. 1t has been said
that there is no marriage nor giving in
marriage in heaven, and I think we
should not worry about the heavenly
relations between man and wife when
there are so many other vital qucs-
tons"
Father Hugh Mcclure. rector of St
James church, said, when asked whose
husband the eight-times married man
would be, answered:
You know that our Savior settled
that question once for ALL There is no
marriage, no giving in marriage, in
heaven" he said, when asked, $50 this
man cannot be the husband of any one
of his wives.
The Catholic church does not rec
osnize divorce, but a man can marry
as many times as he chooses If his
wives die. We hold that marriage is
an institution, so this question will not
need be answered, for there there will
be To marriage nor giving in mar
rage
The consensus Of opinion among
ministers is that marriage is an insti-
tuition that does not exist in heaven.
and that there the relations of earth
are so sublimated that no questions of
the ownership of wife or husband en-
ters the happiness Of eternity The
phrase of Christ, But they which shall
be accounted worthy to obtain that
world and the resurrection from the
dead, neither marry nor: are given in
marriage" is still the belief of the ma
jority of churchmen, Catholic and Pro-
teStant