Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-22

happiness in married life to the one
case of unhappiness, and that pro-
badly the bitter reaping of some
bachelors wild oats.
Another processes to love loneli-
ness that he may study, paint or
sing-Pity cannot reach and sym
pathy cannot save him, who is not
converted, when he visits a happy
home, where study and research are
encouraged and sweetened, pictures
and art filled with life's full mean
ing, and song made sacred amid
the household gods, where child
hood worships, and sweet affection
offers incense to the hottest of ties.
How man loves to look back to |
that day when his good wife placed
her hand confdingly in his, and
spoke in spirit as did the Jewish
maiden -four thousand years ago in
that far away meadow by the mystic
sea, Where thou goest, ! will go;
where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy
people shall be my people; thy God,
My God!"
No place SO proper as here, in a
company Of judges, lawyers and law
makers, to demand more protection
for the home, more sanctity for the
marriage vow by permitting less
divorces. 1t is not strange that a
great nation, having no word in its
language that expresses our idea
of the word home, should be
seriously disturbed by its de-
crease in population, and the
growing tendency of Its people
to disregard the marriage VOW or
avoid it altogether. Reading the re
cord Of our divorces, the looseness of
our laws and the facility with which
they are obtained, man is tempted
to believe that our civilization for
gets the universal law of self-pre-
servation, for our society and our
civilization are built and grounded
upon the home and family as their
foundations.
I cannot close my ears to the echo
of the words Of the Man of Nazareth
| in declaring the marriage contract
something more than rope of sand,
nor can l forget Him at Cana in
Galilee, blessing the marriage,
changing the water into wine and
| Joining in the simple Hastings Of the
poor at pure and holy rite, sancti-
fed by His presence and precept
We sometimes think that our
school books are too full of battle
fields, wars, money making and
studies along material and CONNER
cial lines, and that there should be
more Of the lessons Of homely viz
tues, rugged honesty and those
things that enoble human life and
bring men nearer to God and the
things of God.
tits refreshing that occasionally
there is cause for rejoicing in the
lives of our leaders. Were / asked
to give the reason why the most I'M
timely death Of President Mckinley
touched every man and woman with
private and personal grief and
mourning, I would answer, because
every good woman loved him for
his conjugal devotion, and any
mother would proudly name him as
a model for her sons to follow.
When he first took his great oath
before the multitude at Washington,
his first thoughts were for mother
and wife, and better than thousand
sermons was the kiss he proudly
gave his mother while thousands
cheered and many wiped away the
tears that came unbidden at the
|sight.
All the pomp and splendor Of
| Napoleon's legions, all the memories
Of his wondrous campaigns, do not
atone for the absence Of his mother
at his coronation, as she was then ar
+, exile, wandering aimlessly in Rome
Theodore Roosevelt is respected
r and admired by men and women o
$ all creeds, classes and parties, be
0 cause he has prominently in hin
g. many Of the rugged, homely quail
e ties that find solace and joy in tn
y bosom of home life and in the sacred
: ness Of domestic virtues and happi
: ness.
] Perhaps it is not out Of place il
4 speaking of women, to protes
n against the barbarous unwritte
y code of morals, that laughs at, Q
J, forgives the man who has sinneo
e but damns the woman to infamy
I'll The man is forgiven, he may sue
|. coed in social or business life, an
e often does, but to the lazar hous
d with the unfortunate he has wrong
81 ed! Our laws, our civilization hav
e much to do to right this fearfr
8, wrong. No fallen woman but belo,
IS her was the fallen man!
Like John Ridd in Lorna Doone,
d she exclaims in the face Of man
s sins, seductions and crimes. &c
L above us rose the mountains, cowle
IS in fog and scanned with storm, an
Ie around us desolation, and an ope
n grave beneath"
n AS against the stern DEGREES {
society, the rigors of the law, til
II want Of charity of the pulpit, I'll
1t soothing of the press that publishe
'e the woman's name but convenient
$ forgets that Of the man, | plead fe
e the charity shown when the repel
L tant Magdalen bathed the Savior
70 feet with her tears and wiped thel
g with her hair, and / ask for more
d the philanthropy, that in kindnes
d and mercy reclaims the wanderer.
4 The ladies! That includes thel