The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-02

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obey God IN her marriage or refuse To
marry at ALL She is not required to
imarry a man she does not love. shc
Fl ~ simply forbidden to marry man
Isht does not reverence ana is moi
II wiling to obey In the Lord. With
j that one restriction she can consult
her own wishes, The IDEAL marriage
4 is when the wife reveres loves and
Twill cheerfully obey in the Lord her
/ husband. That is the lot ] hone God
/ viii give to every maiden before me.
4 10 marry without reverence is for
/ Didden 70 woman, no matter what
/ her motive is. One may love very
lpassionately for while a bad char.
acter, whether the badness consist in
| vice or petty meanness but when tho
passion shall have spent its waywartI
force all the best of the race shall |
learn to their bitter sorrow that only
love which is rooted IN reverence is
abiding The bitter consequences of
a disregard of this law are not con.
hned to the poor girl, who in the
thoughtlessness of her youth and un-l
Ger the teaching of what she has
heard and read marries a man be-
cause sne loves him, with littlcI
thought Of character. Alas. the sins
against this law are also visited upon
the third and fourth generations. Not
only does the Bible teach that a
woman reverence her husband, and
have but one husband. and he one
wife, but patient plodding science
comes, with imperious voice to say
that il is only this way that the goal
Of human happiness can he reached ! /
The homogeneous family is the foun. s
iation stone upon which rest ourl II
social and civic fabric. We speak Of In
patriotism. But there is no patriot
ism where there is no hearthstone. Isl
atriotsm in its last analysis is Lowell
If home. No man ever seized shot IN
gun and went out to defend board.
ng house The fall of Rome has 9,
'con explained from a hundred stand. al
ioiDts. but the honest student Of his n
DRY knows that her decline came
When RIGHTEOUSNESS and drunkenness
rove virtue from her homes There =
'as a day when hor soldiers were in
incihle: when the scream OF the 4
,oman eagle was echosd BY thel
bout of victory. and that was theT
me when the white-robed virpinl
epi perpetual fire upon the altar of
esta, the Goddess Of Chastity. But
lere came day when the divorce
WIS We're relaxed. there were not
rough Nesta virgins to watch the
re. tllickered and went out. Satur
allan revels stined the last flowers +
modesty a bloated image Of lust
God on every square. and in every
casure garden, family life withered
ID died and the proud mistress of
e seven hills" went down never TO =,
Sc again ue
Coming down from ST. Louis TO IN
iiro the other day young lady on 20
e ears asked me 10 secure her a fol
sition in one Of our large stores. I
iied lo her; Young lady. would ,n'
lhrr have twenty five acres Of thisl ~
lnois laud with log csbii on Il yrI
! The man J reverence sud love tol cal
the land a. q sober husbandmanI an,
With httie grassy winding path me
ding doxa To- the spring. where the
ter Errsie5 from the lips OF earth. FpI
isiling day and night to the whneI ~
iblcs perpetual pccm-sith holly -,
rs growing at the corBer OF the rb
iae and morning slofies blooming ter,
r the IOw1thacked door. with laticol i
-k nrer tive windows 50 that The Lot
light would fall cheekered uron ing
iini9lei babe in the cradle. and FIe
Is like songs with wings lowering -.
summer cir. than be the ch.ef e.,pk Won
he biggest ssor' on earth. or oxen mer
owner Of such 4 store. thin
nat are fhs usllties xhieai tl-ie sew
non honor ia msu2 Tsa,n. vrtf- and
sei'ris'- brace aud sffenzth- 80
e Tow with ~ has EVOLVE s.s
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