The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-01-14

REV. TALMAGE. things even-that
is the heresy entertained and implied
by some men. This is evident to them,
because Adam was first created. and
then Eve. They don't read the whole
story, or they would find that the por-
poise and the bear and the hawk were
created before Adam, so that this argu-
ment, drawn from priority of creation,
might prove that the sheep and. the
dog were greater than man. No. Wom-
an was an independent creation, and
was intended, If she chose to live
alone, to work alone, act alone, think
| alone, and fight her battles alone. The
Bible says IL is not good for man to be
| alone, but never says IL is not good for
woman to be alone; and the simple
fact is that many women who are har-
messed for life in the marriage relation
would be q thousandfold better off if
they were alone.
Who are these men who, year after
year, hang around hotels and engine
houses and theater doors, and come in
and out to bother busy clerks and
merchants and mechanics, doing moth
ing, when there is plenty to do? They
| are Iltn huDDOTIcu Nv llltlI WIVES anu
mothers If the statistics of any of
our cities could be taken on this sub
| ject, you would find that vast multi
tude of women not only support them
selves, but masculines. A great legion
of men amount to nothing, and wom-
an by marriage, manacled to one of
these nonentities, needs coincidence.
A woman standing outside the mar
riage relation is several hundred thou
sand times better off than woman
badly married Many bride, instead
of wreath of orange blossoms, might
more properly wear a bunch of nettles
and nightshade, and, instead of the
wedding March," a more appropriate
tune would be the Dead March" in
Saul, and, instead of a banquet of con-
fectionery and ices, there might be
more appropriately spread a 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 result? Like when
dove, noticing that vulture was ra-
pacious and cruel, set about to reform
1t, and said: II have mild DISPOSE
ton, and | like peace, and was brought
up in the quiet of n dove-cote, and
will bring the vulture to the same like
'ng 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 lichen, the twain were mar
| -. l. IA IA,
the vulture saying: with all 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 carcass, and cried: stop
that! did you not promise me that
you would quit your carnivorous and
filthy habits if l marry you?" Yes"
said the vulture, but If you don't like
my way, you can leave" and with one
angry stroke of the beak and another
fierce clutch of the claw the vulture
left the dove eyeless and wingless and
lifeless. And flock of robins flying
past, cried to each other and said
"See there! that comes from u dove
marrying vulture to reform him."
MuuH IL WOlndll WIN lldS ndu IHe
hand of young inebriate offered, but
declined it, or who was asked to chain
her life to a man selfish, or of bad
temper, and refused the shacliles, will
bless God throughout all eternity that
she escaped that earthly pandemonium
Besides all this, in our country about
900, 900 men were sacrificed in our
civil war, and that decreed 1000, 900
women to celibacy. Besides that,
since the war, several armies of men
as large as the federal and confederate
armies put together, have fallen under
malt liquors and distilled spirits, so
full of poisoned ingredients that the
work was done more rapidly, and the
victims fell while yet young. And if
so, 900 men are destroyed every year by
strong drink before marriage, that
makes in the 83 years since the war
1850, 900 men slain, and DEGREES 1885,
900 women to celibacy. Take, then,
the fact that so many women are un-
happy in their marriage, and the fact
that the slaughter of 1850. 900 men, by
war and rum combined, decides that
at least that number of women shall
be unbalanced for life, my text comes
in with IA cheer and a potency and APP
propriateness that you may never have
seen in ii before when it says: "EverY
wise woman buildeth her house;" that
is, let woman be her own architect,
lay out her own plans, be her own SUI
pervisor, achieve her own destiny
In addressing those women who have
to fight the battle alone, l congratu-
late you on your happy escape, Re-
joice forever that you will not have to
navigate the faults of the other sex,
, when you have faults 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 useful
ness from which marital life would
: have partially debarred you, and that
= you are free to go and come as one
, who has tina rasnOn Al hi Ii tias Of a ION az