The age-herald., 1901-03-17


 So be there 'twixt @*t** such a spousal, That never may i'll office, or fell jealousy, Which troubles oft *+s"+ blessed marriage. Thrust in between the paction of these "s.@ Receive each other!-God speak this
 Amenm
 In the calm and blessed Lenten time, the season of penance and restfulness, when the rout of the dance and the mer- riment of marriage are past and are to come, and are not now, the birds mate and men and women make ready for mating in the resurrection and the life of springtime and in summers splendid bloom.
 Maidens receive adoring lovers in the dim and soft glow where burn the shaded lights within the portals of the places men call homes, and there is but the echo of revelry that is done, sounding In hearts that beat to the low melodies of bells that in the afterwhiles shall be vibrant upon air laden of the bloom that shall spring from the gloom of garden and field and wood now asleep.
 It is stealthily sweet this making for the mating that shall be when the sun light unlocks the earth that it may laugh in flowers to crown brides in bowers of blessedness in the world-loved afterwhile of lovers joys found in the fulillment of softly sworn pledges given gladly in the glad abandon of that feaity which re- ceives and does not question.
 It is redolent of re-created life, this in tereommunion of souls athirst for the higher and fuller life of sou-union be- twiXt man and woman in the pursuit of that great measure of happiness which neither may know apart from the other, and which makes for the ripened prophe- cies of mankind's redemption an@ saliva tion.
 Early marriage makes us immortal, de- clared immortal old Tacitus. It is the prop of empire; and that man who re- solves to live without woman, or that wo- man who resolves to live without man, is an apostate and a rebel against na- ture
 So the young make for the mating-time, whomsoever of the young be wise, my be- loved.
 Behold, there is a dream of good and We mingle all the world with the bride that is to be!
 With the rich heritage of all the ages, she comes bounding across the warm and flower-spangled garden of young life's golden glory in the bursting of it's bloom to bless. With open eyes of love and light, life and laughter, innocence and joy, the blossoms kiss her feet, and upon the per fumed breezes Is incense of her adoration as she speeds to the place where the world acclaiming her as the world of the righteous has acclaimed every bride from Eden to the dawn of these Lenten days.
 She has been good, and with goodness '--.------.-- - - = - . street l met him in the exuberance of abundant spirit of youthful joyousness, whilst Tho matter; he made me forget in moment my affliction. Whither? I de- handed. Why? He was off to the sunlit fields and the cool woods for a day with birds and flowers, by happy streams that laughed all day long. and I must come. He wouldn't have no for answer I must. The day was made for me, he declared. Long afterwards was the vision of youth in quest of the source of all truth the very heart of nature, and the restful vis- ion remains to take it's place beside the little six feet of eafth digged for him who was pure of heart and without guile!''