The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-04-24

| they decided upon matrimonial ASSOCIATION,
people laughed. And some of them have
lived to laugh. on the other side OF their
| mouth.
The need of divine direction l argue
| from the fact that so many men, and
some of them strong and wise, have
wrecked their lives at this Juncture. Wat.
ness Samson and this woman of Timnath;
| Witness Socrates pecked of the historical!
| Xantippe! Witness Job, whose wife had
nothing to prescribe for his carbuncles
but allopathic doses OF profanity, Witness
| Ananias. liar, who might perhaps have
| been cured by truthful spouse, yet mar,
| rying as great liar as hlmselt-Sapphlra.
| Witness John Wesley. one OF the best
| men that ever lived. united to one OF the
| most outrageous and scandalous OF women,
| who sat in City Road Chapel. making
| mouths at him while he preached. Wit
| ness the once connubial wretchedness OF
| John Ruskin, the great art essaylst, and
Frederick W. Robertson, the great preach
cr. Witness a thousand hclls on earth
| kindled by unworthy wives. termagants
| that scold like a March northeaster:. fe-
| male spendthriftS. that put their nus
| bands into fraudulent schemes to get
money enough to meet the lavishment OF
domestic expenditure: oplum-uslng Wo-
! men-about four thousand of them IN the
L
| though it should cause the eternal damna,,
| ton of the whole household; heartless and
overbearing, and namby-pamby and un,
reasonable women, yet marrled-marrleo
perhaps to good men! These are the wo-
men who build the low club-houses, where
| the husbands and sons go because they
can't stand it at home. On this sea OF
matrimony, where so many have wrecked.
am | not right in advising divine pilotage!
Especially is devout supphcatlon needed,
| because of the fact that society Is so tull
| of artifcialities that men are deceived as
to whom they are marrying. and no one
but the Lord knows. After the dress
maker and the milliner. and the leweier.
and the hair-adjuster, and the dancing
master, and the cosmetic art have com
pleted their work. how Is an unSophlstl,
Gated man to decipher the physiological
hieroglyphics, and make accurate ludg,,
ment of who it Is to wnom he offers hand
and heart? That is what makes so many
recreant husbands. They make an honor
able marriage contract. but the goods de
livercd are so different from the sample
By which they bargained. They were
swindled. and they backed out. Ihey
mistook Jczebel for Longfellow Evangc-
line. and Lucretia Borgia Tor Martha
Washington.
Ave. as the Indian chief boasts OF the
scalps he has taken, so there are III society
to-day many coquettes who boast OF the
masculine hearts they have captured. And
these women, though they may live amid
richest upholstery, are not 20 honorable
as the cyprianS OF the street, Tor these
advertise their infamy. while the former
profess heaven while they mean hell.
There is so much counterfeit womaR
hood abroad it is no wonder that some
cannot tell the genuine coin from the base.
Do YOU not realize you need DIVINE Snd-
ance when / remind you that mistake Is
possible in this important affair, and, II
made, is irrevocablc!
The worst predicament possible is to be
unhappily yoked together. You see 1t Is
impossible to break the yoke. The more
YOU pull apart, the more CALLING The yoke.
The minister might bring yoa. up again,
and and in your presence read the mar
riage ceremony backward, might put you
on the opposite sides OF the altar IRON
where You were when You were united,
might take the ring off of the finger, might
rend the wedding veil asunder, might tear
out the marriage leaf from the family Bible
record. but that would fall to unmarry
you 1t is better not to make the mis-
take than to attempt its correction. But
men and women do not reveal all their
characteristics till after marriage, and
how are YOU to avoid committing the fatal
Llunder? There is only one Being In the
universe who can tell you whom to choose,
and that is the Lord OF Paradise. lie
made Eve for Adam, and Adam Tor Eve,
and both for each other. Adam had not
large group of women from whom to
select his wife, but 1t Is fortunate, Judg-
ing from some mistakes which ,she after
ward made, that it was Eve or nothing.
There is in all the world some one who
was made for you, as certainly as Eve was
made for Adam All sorts of mistakes
occur because Eve was made out OF RIB
from Adams side. Nobody knows which
of his twenty.four ribs was taken for the
nucleus. If you depend entirely upon
yourself in the selection OF wife, there
are twenty-three possibilities to one that
you will select the wrong RIB. BY the tate
of Ahab. whose wife induced him to steal:
by the fate OF Macbeth, whose wife pushed
him into massacre: by the fate, OF James
Ferguson, the philosopher, whose wife
entered the room while he was lecturing
and willfully upset his astronomical ap-
paratus, so that he turned to the audience
and said, Ladies and gentlemen, | have
| the misfortune to be married to tins
| woman by the fate of Bulwer. the
| novelist. whose wife's temper was so in-
compatible that he furnished her beau
| tiful house near London and withdrew
| from her company, leaving her with the
dozen dogs whom she entertained as pets:
by the fate of John Milton. who married
| a termagant after he was blind, and when
| some one called her rose. the poet said:
Il am no Judge OF flowers, but it may be
so. for | feel the thorns daily by the
fate of an Englishman whose wife was so
determined to dance on his grave that he
was buried in the sea: by the fate OF a
village minister whom 1 knew, whose wife
| threw cup of hot tea across the table
because they differed in sentiment-by all
! these scenes of disquietude and domestic
calamity, we implore you to be cautious