The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-10-25
FHILoscPaY o. MARR1Aar.
The Purely Cupid Union Not the ice
Marriage

Marriage.
correspondent writes: BE s.
obliging IS % give what you consider
70 be the uGe philosophy OF marriage
whether II is FOR the Indulgence OF sen.
timental beings or for the upbumA.
OF noble race"
The request is a tribe confusing ].
there in the correspondent mind tAt
IDEA that sentiment and mobility g.,
character are antagonistic2 II such
is the case he is laboring under ue.
fusion. Let him at once put the tallacy
away.
Sentiment, If it is healthy and Of ths
right sort, 5 to humanity what ut
sunshine is to the planet-its very lus
Noble character is the legitimate fruit
age Of noble sentiment, and without
the sentiment you can no more have
the character than you can have har.
vest without sunshine.
From the viewpoint of the better
PHILOSOPHERS it is permitted as TO un.
derstand philosophy-marriage is, pri.
marily, the union of one man and ono
owman in love, in friendship in faitn
fulness in unselfsh devotion and II
the Joy which is the natural and Ia
evitable result OF such union.
JOY Harmony! If these are absent
ii is not marriage, but mockery
The first principle OF the true marriag,
is love. and It is well to observe thar
love and passion are as opposite as the
poles of earth.
Passion is, indeed, the basis OF the
animal marriage, but we are talking
now Of the HUMAN marriage-the TN
ion not of bodies, but of souls.
Cupid is a bright little cherub, anc
viii doubtless always be popular, bu'
the marriage that is not able TO com.
mand the benediction OF Psyche haC
better not be SOnsummated. The pure.
ly Cupid union may have a rosy morn.
ing but its day vii probably go down
in chill and gloom.
Is this statement doubted? Then
use your eyes. look around. and you
will have your skepticism removed. &C
into any one OF a hundred splendid
homes" on the boulevards. on the ma
iestic avenues, and you will end tina.
marrying for money. for style. TO
social prestige, does not pay. The frontf
OF these homes are magnificent, but IL
the rear are closets-and the closets
are fun Of skeletons.
And so we come TO the second phas,
Of our correspondents question "l'
marriage designed for the upbuilding -
noble racer"
BY all means, YES Ana the design
will be fulfilled to the letter II The
chosen Of the race will take enough iu
terest in their duty TO teach the young
how TO marry.
Get the young folks rightly mated ant
the marriage will be happy, and wheI
will you find a blighted child born OF
happy marriage? I challenge yOa T. .
produce such a child.
Blighted little ones there are by the
thousands and by the tens Of thou
sands but they came from wrong mar
riages. not right ones. from unhappy
Unions not from hapDy ones.
The great Master Of truth psychO'og
ical declared one day. "A corrupt tree
cannot bring forth good fruit" Hi|
knew what He was talking about. ano
His principle is OF universal agDhco
tlon Most appropriately does It nt tht
present subject
True marriage brings forth trlf
children, and Il is only out of the trl
that we can rear a true eiWii
.lation See 20 IT that the young ma
and women are rroperly married anl
me uoble race aiil follow as ligh
follows the sunsh.e.--Rey Thomas y
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