The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-14
OLD-FASHIOAED Owe MAKING
A SERMON ON MARRIAGE AND
HOME.
De1noralizing Tendencies OF Club
Life-What True Marriage
Should Be.

At Westminster Presbyterian Churcn
q week ago yesterday, Rev. Warren n
Landon of San Rafael delivered the
following evening sermon on The flrs'
Home. 1t attracted much attention
at the time, and many members OF
the church have requested its publlca-
ton. Mr.. Landon spoke as follows
from the text: Gen. H., Is. And the
Lord God said. it is not good that the
man should be alone; / will make an
help-meet for him."
The creative days were about ended
the creative work about done; the sun
was shining in the heavens; the grass
and flowers We're growing in the helos'
the fish were sporting in the BROOKS
the birds We're happily singing IN the
air; the cattle were feeding on the hills
Adam was in Eden, the lovely spot Coo
had selected as mans first home
Adam was the human sovereign OF
the world. All creatures were under
his dominion and were to be his SER
wants. What more could man ASK
than to live in the loveliest spot on the
earth, to have no rival, to have every
thing to enjoy, everything to use, every
thing to command? And yet there was
in this first home of the world great
lack. Whether Adam felt it or not
God saw it, and determined upon one
more creative act for mans sake. Goo
saw that everything he had made was
good. except man alone in his home
He watched him a little wandering
about his Eden home with no compan-
%,,& o;,-Se
TT is not good that the man should be
alone" HE will become morose and
selfish and grabbed: / will make a com
panion for him.
will step aside for a moment and lei
DR.. Joseph Parker speak in regard &c
the kind of companion God decided
TO make for him. He says: God has
always been thinking what would De
for mans good How, then, does Goo
propose to meet loneliness? By making
another man? Why, when he made
man to keep Cain company. Cain killed
himl 1t would seem to be one OF
the deepest laws of human nature thai
man must kill man, and that the only
chance of keeping society together Is
by the marvellous influence of woman
For man to be alone means suicide; fol
two men to be together means homi-
eide; woman alone can keep society
moving and healthful. The woman
and the little child are the saviors OF
social order at this day all over the
world
This, then, was the first home; a
beautiful home, but with man alone in
it. The best thing God saw that, He
could do fer this lonely man was to
make him wife The psalmist says:
God setteth the solitary in families"
or. in other words, God maketh the
lonely to dwell in a home
Having seen that God made woman
for man, let use see, if we can, for what
special purpose she was made. "And
the Lord God said: 1t is not good that
the man should be alone; I will make
him an helpmeet for him" The He
brew says: Il will make him an help
or helper as over against him. one to
be his counterpart. Woman, then, was
made to stand by mans side. not to be
his servant or slave. but to be his help
meet. to be his counterpart, to be his
better half" if you prefer that ex-
preston. Woman in almost every
heather nation is degraded. But Chris
tianity elevates her and places her just
where God placed her in the beginning
by mans side Old Matt Henry well
says: IF man is the head, woman IS
the crown, a crown to her husband,
the crown of the visible creation. The
man was dust refined, one remove fur
Their from the aarth.' THE
woman was made IF a rib out of the
side of Adam, not made out of his head
to rule him, nor out of his feet to be
trampled upon by him, but out of his
side to be equal with. him, under his
arm to be protected, aid near his heart
to be beloved"
That woman, then, ID false to her ma
ture, false to her wornanhood, who is
not willing to take her place by the
side of man to be his helper. to work
with him, to endure hardships with him,
to be his COUNTERPART. I am referring
now to class Of ycdng women a class
far too large. though there may be
none in this city, who would refuse a
noble man Who proffered his hand on
the single ground of his inability to sup
port her il stylish home, a class Of
young women who measure young men
not by their heads or their hearts but
by their pockets. To them wife does
not mean ne4peT, 10 lnefn the married
state is one In which woman is to be
supported, to be cared for, to have
servants to wait upon her. and in which
she may keep UP a fashionable routine
of life. while the husband somehow
keeps the establishment going This
may seem like an exaggerated view.
but II is true view Of certain class
There are still many young women. wo-
men of means and women of brains.
who take the measure Of the man who
offers himself. not by his circumstances,
and who are willing to lay their hearts
alongside other noble hearts u be what
God intended woman should be. help
mates. But there still prevails amone
many young men an idea that wife is
too expensive a luxury 10 lie afforded
There are so many fashions and follies
10 support that young man with a
moderate income does not like to take
the risk of taking a wife. have been
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