The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-10-18
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rhe Purely cupid Union Not the fdea
Marriage.

The PURELY Cupid Union Not the ldea
Marriage
A correspondent writes BE 81
bliglng .s 10 give Whit you consdei
20 be the ttse philosophy Oh marriage
whether &c is FOR the Indulgence oi sen.
tmental beings or for tle upsm.dI-t
/ OF a noble race.
The request is a tribe confusing. Il
there in the correspondent mind the
/ idea that sentiment and nobility y
/ character are antagonisticy II sucp
is the ease ne is laboring under g 0e.
( usion. Let him at once put the ialiacy
away.
Sentimapf. II it is healthy and of tbs
/ right sort TO humanity wnat TIE
sunshine ig to the planet-its very life
Noble character is the legitimate fruit
age OF noble sentiment. aud without
| the sentiment you can no more have
the character than you can have a har.
/ vest without sunshine.
From the viewpoint of the better
/ philosoph, as it is permitted us to un'
derstand osophy-marriage is. pri'
marily. the union OF one man ana one
owman in love in friendship IN faith.
4 fulness. iu unselhsh devot b. and IL
/ thc joy watch is tho patnal and in-
eyitabie result OF such us,'9n.
JOY Harmony Ii these are absent
Il is not l. marriage. but a mockery
The first principle of the true marriage
Is love. and it is well to observe thai
love and passion are as opposite as The
poles of earth.
Passion is. indeed, the basis OF tbs
animal marriage but We are taking
now of the HUMAN marriage--the un'
ion not OF bodies. but OF souls.
Cupid is a bright little cherub, ana
will Doubtless always be popular 0u
the marriage that is not able TO com.
mand the benediction OF Psyche hal
better not be consummated The pure
ly Cupid union may have a iosy morn
ing. but its day vii proD4Dly go do~l
in chill and gloom.
Is this statement doubted? Their
use your eyes look around. and yot
will have your skepticism removed. &C
into any one OF a hundred "splendit
homes on the bouleyards. on the ma
iestic avenues, and you will find tha
marrying for money Tor style To-
social prestige. does not pay. The front
of these homes are magnificent, but il
the rear are closets-and the closets
are fan Of skeletons
And SO we come TO the second phas'
of our correspondents question "l
marriage designed for the upbuilding
a noble race"
By all means, YES Ana the desigl
will be fulfilled TO the letter IL tn
chosen of the race will take enough IN
terest in their duty to teach the younl
how to marry.
Get the young folks rightly mated am
the marriage will be happy, and whei'
will you find blighted child born OF
happy marriage? I challenge you L
produce such a child.
Blighted little ones there are by tn
thousands and by the tens OF thou
sands but they came from wrong mar
riages. not right ones; from unhapp.
Unions not from happy ones.
The great Master of truth psyche 'os
ical declared one day: "A corrupt tire
cannot bring forth good fruit II
knew what He was talking about. an
\ His principle is of universal aRplica
ton. Most appropriately does It 1T tn
present subject
True marriage brings forth tru
children. and it is only out OF the tru
children that we can rear true civil
ization. See to II that the young me-
and women are properly married an
the noble race will follow as hgh
follows the sunshiae.-Rev Thomas I
Gregory