The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-25
THE TIE THAT BINDS.

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er, what days are unlucky to be mar
ried on. Authorities differ; some
say $685." The skeptical member Of
the family who had passed beyond
the probable, although not the posi-
Bile, matrimonial limit, read the
Coke" as he termed it, aloud and
indulged in a hearty fit of laughter
over it and pronounced it good"
1t might have passed in the mind
of the general reader as a good joke,
but to the more thoughtful it was
suggestive of the spirit of the age.
Nearly all the light literature of the
present day read by the average read
er savors of unhappy marriages. The
heroes and heroines figure as men
and women who have made mistakes
in their selections of partners and
find their true afinities later. Our
young people who read these books
get their ideas of marriage largely
from these pernicious stories, which
make marriage anything but the tie
that binds.
It is because of the light manner
in which that tie is held, that there
is so much of happiness in the mar
riage relation, and the reason we hear
so much and so often of petitions to
dissolve that relationship. There is
no other more enduring tie than that
of marriage when it is made of love
and founded on the sacred principles
which our Lord intended it to be.
There is something radically wrong
in the restlessness of Our married
people. Why is it that the environ
ment of home life seems to be so east
1y wearied of? Why is it that there
are so many things to take husbands
and wives away from the peace and
quiet of their own fresides? Is it
not a great question whether club
life is not a breaker up of the old
home life, which the husband and
wife should hold as the best and
pleasantest of all possessions?
St. Paul, in his letter to Titus, in
cu1cates the idea that the wife should
be a keeper at home. But to be
keeper of home the wife must be
lover of home and make it as attrac-
tive as possible for her husband. A
writer has said that the chief instru-
ments of human reformation and
Transformation must be steady and
constant.
"You have been married nearly
thirty years." said one friend to an
other.
eyes, and I feel so happy to think
that in all that time he never tired Of
me. There was so much in his out
side life to attract him from his home,
yet he has always held that as the
dearest dear spot on earth, and kept his
when we were lovers in the long
ago."
The husband could have given the
same testimony to his wife devotion.
She never tired of him. Even after
thirty years of being together, bound
by the closest tie, he never left the
wife without a goodbye kiss, and on
his return he always met her with a
CHEEKY welcome which always made
the home coming such a delight to
her. To her he was the one man Of
all the world, and to him she was the
one woman. They were united in a
tie that would bind through all the
changing seasons and scenes of life.
To be true to each other and to make
each other happy, had been the high
aim of their married life.
The person is guilty of great
wrong who does in any way weaken
the tie that binds two hearts togeth-
er. 1t is not always done by the fas-
cinations of evil-minded men outside /;
oftentimes those of our own house
holds, by insinuations or fault-fnd-
ings, disparage the husband in the
eyes of the wife, or the wife in the
eyes of the husband. The daughter
may have married a man in whom
the father and mother can see no
special attraction, although there is
nothing Objectionable in him. But
the young married couple love each
other, and woe to anyone who in any
way casts a shodow over that love
| A son may bring home wife, who,
| if the mother had chosen for him,
would have been some other maiden
but their love is true and the aim oi
the new life is to make each other
happy, and why should the mother
weaken that love or make their lives
unhappy because she does not see
wherein that son found his affinity.
It is the duty of every one to helI
make the sacred tie of marriage what
it should be; and people who get VI
this scheme or that one to induce
married people to find their highest
pleasure somewhere else except al
their own fresides and each other:
company, will do we'll to consider
whether they are not undermining
the peace and happiness of the home
life.
After "the old order changeth, ,
and those who have walked together
bound by the tie of true love, for years
are separated, how hard it is for th'
one who is left to finish the journey
alone AS she journeys up thu
heights without that companionshil
which had been her greatest joy il
life, she cannot refrain from telling
those who are behind her to clasl
hands tighter and make the tie o
marriage one that binds in true
pure love. Let US all be careful tha
we do not, by word, or pen, or act
disparage the sacred ordinance ofmar
riage. Getting married, my dea
young people, is no light matter
Love is the greatest thing in life. L
choosing life companion wisdor
should be asked of God, and the tw
, who have entered this close unio
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