The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-23
SIGHT
LOVE DOES
NOT LAST
Due to Physical Attraction,
Says Preacher, and Ends
TragicaIly.

PATTERSON, Dec. pa sensational
sermon on love and marriage was deliv-
cred here yesterday in st. Paul's
Episcopal Church by the Rev. DIR. j. j.
Mombert. who is concentrating the
hftieth anniversary of his ordination 10
the Episcopal priesthood.
DR.. Mombert preached the serman At
the funeral of President Buchanan. His
sermon follows in part:
Love. both as a verb and a noun,
is one of the most abused words in the
language. The outra geous use of the
word by indecent writers and as a
form of address by immoral men and
women with everything akin thereto,
! lies outside this discussion.
Strange as it may sound to those
whose ideas Of right and wrong are not
clear, love at first sight is not worthy
Of the name. 1t requires a very wise
and judicious person to form a judg-
ment at first sight. How then are two
very young p-eople-mostly though not
always, they are rather young-able to
determine that the object of their
choice is worthy of love, and all that
the word Is supposed to mean.
How by what process of intuition
or %divination can young people dis
tinguish truth from %falsehood. The
thing they call love does not bear the
stamp and impression of the divine
mint. In most instances young people
are attracted by imaginary physical
merits, forgetting they are not always
real. and what they call love generally
does not rise above amorous carnality
and often ends t~ragically. Still worse
are marriages which the French con-
tract. The French r adopts in the
art of clouding words. The marriages
are simply arranged, money being
added to money, or supposed n
Money is given for a title or rank. All
other considerations. such as feelings
and disparity in years, are brushed
aside. The only possible item withou
c~onforinality to the words in which
the term love is used is where the
man promises to love and to cherish,
and the woman to love, to cherish and
obey
I'm most instances the woman is the
victim of the Unsuitable and heartless
ambitious of one or both of her
parents; sometimes, however, the guilt
lies at her door.
1The most misuse and per-
version OIL the itEbl IpNH . ~ hhoNA TFNf
tito mean shameless orgies n which iian
and woman rival each other in demon
strating the very opposite of the socailed
Darwinian theory by descending to depths
at infamy, below the level of brutes. To
ascrlbe such ahhorrent enormities solely
to supernuous wealth is but part OF tho
truth. The primal germs may be s"acec
TO fashionable resorts frequented by the
vicious which should be Stunned by young
people of honorable parentage. Cafes, eor
instance. where young women order IN
toxicants alone or in ompany are highs
Objectionable.
st is a relief to turn from the noisone
mIasma or the lover regions of distcrted
7nofaIflN and ascend TO the first stage OF
higher attitudes where light. derived from
the highest light. dlffuses different and
more graceful portraitures. Such a stage
In the ascent, which eliminates in Col,
fs the Christian family. 1t hegins with
marriage founded on true love ana ny
whatever concurrinG circumstances Of
strength and beauty, virtue and WORTH
become indissolnbly united. The result is
happIness. in which the man. true TO his
vacation. is the husband and the wife true
10 her vocation is the weaver, an ety.
mologv too beautiful to be surrendered TO
the arbitrary dicta OF speculative philo-
logy.
Hchristians cannot and dare not as Chris
tians delegate the moral training of their
offspring TO others. No teacher. nay, no
minister, though their efforts be strenu-
Gus. tender and affectionate, is able TO do
that which they must do themselves.
There is no such thing. although WICKED
fathers and giddy mothers attempt 1t by
hirelings as vicsrious love.
"The law Of love. which is the law OF
God, for God IL love. enjoined upon Them
as parents, the responsibility and the con-
SEQUENCES of it's disregard is. In later
years, the children become vicious, the
sons liars, thieves and truce breakers,
the daughters become faithless wives and
unnatural mothers. These results lie upon
the shoulders Of parents