Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-19
HUSBAND RECEIVES
PASTORS ATTENTION
YOUNG WOMEN TOLD HOW TO
CHOOSE
Heaven and He'll Are at the Marriage
Altar, and on Proper Selection OF
Life Partner Depends All Future
Happiness, Says Rev. A. s. Phelps

"selecting q Husband was the topic
of Rev. A. S. Phelps, pastor OF tne
Central Baptist church, Alvarado ana
Pico streets, last night. IL was tne
closing sermon of a series to young
women from the words found In Ruth
/. o. Jehovah grant you that ye may
| find rest, each of you in the mousse OIL
her husband" He said:
''Who can estimate the importance OF
marrying, right? This Is not one OF
those questions that are never settleu
till they are settled right; 1t is settled,
right or wrong, and that forever. DO
Won saw that heaven is above and hell
below? No, both are In the marriage
altar and the county clerk signs the
title deed. We pray about trifies but
| forget to pray about marriage. A
wrong marriage blasts the life, yet as
soon as the last head is Withdrawn
from the snare there are twenty more
waiting to thrust their heads in. Mat
tie Morton of Seattle Is said py the
papers to have tossed a coin TO de-
| termine her husband. and soon after
applied to the court to let her out.
"a heaVen-born marriage Is accom-
| panied by the happiness of heaven. God
is the best matchmaker. You read IN
/ the papers that such a marriage took
| place at the residence of the brides pa
rents the papers are wrong: 1t TOOK
place in heaven. The music was not
! Mendelssohn's wedding march, It was
! the melody of heaven struck by the
angels on harps Of gold,
"What sort of husband should you
| choose? Your ideal is a beautiful
dream and you know all the details OF
IT,; but you will never marry that fell
I low but his opposite. Don't marry an
angel; you can't find one among the
masculine sex, and you wouldn't feel at
bhome with him If you found him.
! Marry for love. Byron says:
'Maidens, like moths, are ever caught
by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where
Seraphs might despair
"The girl who marries for money will
hate the money and the man who
bought her. What are comforts and
| luxury to lonely heart? When the
man you love proposes, be like the girl
who rushed to the telegraph office and
asked how many words she could have
and being told ten wrote: Yes, yes
|, yes yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.'
Don't marry a man that is not likely
to support you If he can't find any.
thing he can do beware of him. If he Is
sick send him to the hospital One OF
the governors of Massachusetts, owed
the success of his life to the girl who
said I will not marry you till you own
a house.. Marry a clean man, and II
possible, Christian. Do you think a
Christian would be any too good for
you? Don't be so conceited as to think
you can marry man to reform him
! Society ought to ostracize the fallen
man as it ostracizes the fallen girl.se
How shall you behave during the
| days of courtship? Those .halcyon days,
when the sun rises every morning in
! golden splendor and sets every night
| in a sea of glory If you marry in
pent. Two Of the most beautiful girls
I know, beautiful of face and of soul,
are about to marry the pIaymates of
their infancy; one in Florida, one in
Los Angeles. Don't try to be original
by surprising your friends or running
away. The world is too old to be
Startled by anything you can do. Run
away matches are like all other run
aways and end in a smashup.
Let the days of courtship be days of
prayer. Entering convent, over which
a girl prays so earnestly, is less radi-
cal step than getting married. Oil the
friction of the home machinery with
the grace of Christ. Don't make your
self too cheap. -Aman will dodge any
thing that is thrown at his head,
whether it is a girl or a brick. In Sc
lecting a husband remember that you
are also selecting his wife. What kind
of girl do you want your brother to
marry? Take the Lord Jesus into your
heart today If you are engaged. to be
married. If the sea is smooth under
the sunshine of heaven He will make
the voyage full of gladness: If it is
rough, you will see Him walking to-
ward you over the billows. We legis-
late and preach and sigh about the
divorce question and forget to invite
Christ to the wedding feast"
Mr. Phelps baptized three candidates