Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-03

buncles but allopathic doses of profan-
ity; or Ananias, a liar, who might have
been cured by a truthful spouse, but
who married as great a liar as himself
Sapphira, for Bible examples of the re-
suit of a bad choice of a wife. The
Rev. DR.. Talmage says: Witness John
Wesley, one of the best men that ever
lived, united to one Of the most out
rageous and scandalous of women, who
sat in the City Road chapel making
mouths at him while he preached.
Witness the once connubial wretched-
ness Of John Ruskin, the great art es-
sayist, and Frederick w. Robertson, the
great preacher; or John Milton, who
married a scold after he was blind, and
when some one called her a rose the
poet said: ut may be so, for I am no
judge of colors, but / feel the thorns
daily" by all these scenes of disquiet-
ude and domestic calamity, 1 caution
you to be prayerful before you enter
upon the connubial state. BY a thous-
and hells on earth kindled by unwor-
thy wives, termagants that scold like
a March northeastern; female spend
thrifts that put their husbands into
fraudulent schemes to get money
enough to meet their lavish domestic
expenditure; opium using women
about four hundred thousand in the
United States-who will have the drug,
though it should cause the eternal
damnation of the whole family; heart
less and overwhelming and unreasonable
women, yet married-married, perhaps,
to good men. | adjure you to pray to
Almighty God that He will send you a
good, honest, loving, sympathetic wife
or. if she is not sent to you, that you
may be sent to her. There are plenty
of good women in the world. While
there is much counterfeit w%omanhood
abroad, I would not have you believe
that there is a scarcity of good, SEN
sible, Christian women indeed, I be-
lieve there are more good women than
good men.
Pray that God will send you such a
wife as Pliny had, who, when her hus-
band was pleading in court, had mes
sengers coming and going to inform
her what impression he was making;
or William e. Gladstone, who, when he
was to make one of his great speeches
in parliament, his wife went to hear
him, knowing that her presence would
inspire him to greater effort and elo-
quence. But on entering the house Of
parliament by accident her fingers were
caught in a door and crushed, but with
bravery born of love and devotion for
her husband. she wrapped her bleeding
fingers in her handkerchief, concealed
her hand under her cloak, and, though
in pain, sat with a smile on her face
during the whole Of williams speech,
where he could see her, not betraying
her agony lest the knowledge OF 1t
might spoil his speech. He was called
the grand old man" OF England, but
she ought to have been called the
grand old woman of England"
But in millions of homes there are
God-fearing women. who would suffer
as much for the men they love as Mrs.
Gladstone suffered. though the world
may never see their names in print.
Now, in advising you as to the kind
of a lady you should choose, l fully
realize the difficulty of my task. The
difficulty is that few young people are
willing to take advice on this question.
They think that their particular love
affair is peculiar, and that no preacher
in the world knows enough, especially
about their peculiar CD case to give
any advice that is worth having. This
is all nonsense. While NO minister
claims to be infallihle on this or any
other question. let me also remind you
that you successful choice Of 1 com
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