The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-07-18
MARRIAGES: ITS TRIALS
AND ITS lTRIUMPHS.'

Rev. Bernard Vaughan. the noted pull
pit orator of London, England. has
Just concluded a series of four ad-
dresses on Marriage: It's Trials and
IFS Triumphs." He delivered the first
discourse on June Z.
Taking for his text the words:
Therefore shall a man leave his father
and mother. and cleave to his wife,
and they shall be one" the preacher
sald that in an AnglO-Saxon day when
EadNine and Paulinus addressed the
wise men Of Whitby on the claims of
Christianity. up rose a Northman, and
said. so seems the life Of man as a
1rrow flying through the hall when
you are sitting at meat at wintertide,
nth the warn fire on the hearth, but
ne icy rainstorm without. The SPAR
'ow flies in at one door. tarries awhile,
and then vanishes by another but who
Knows Of its whence or of its whittier?
SO I say continued the speaker.
larrles for a moment the life Of man
DO our sight. but what is before, OF
what is after il, we know not" The
Agh0stic attitude of the Saxon was
enaracteristic Of the present-day Eng
Ashman outside the pale of Christian
iir Was not the Dir still vibrating
with the question: Whence come we.
whittier go we?" and We're they not as
Sured by the leading lights or sceptic
philosophy that the question died away
without an answer, without even an
e.no from the shores Of the unknown?
1T would be waste of time TO insist
on the Christian sacred character of
marriage before men with whom Chris
uans had nothing in common either in
religion or philosophy. Scepticism was
mo part Of their creed. Living as he did
'h Christian country, it was no pre-
sumption to hope that his countryTren
sun accepted, at least in theory, Chris
lan teaching about marriage. With
me Divine Master the disciple could
proclaim u know whence ] came.
ana whittier I go" He knew that his
point Of departure as well as his term
Of arrival was Cod The Christian, Ike
ne jew, said: My life is not Ike
mat Of a sparrow flying through a
nan, but as that Of pilgrim tarrying
Tor awhile on his way between two
.tues The real difficulty to solve was
''t The question Of mans whence
q WHITTIER" but about his here and
After dismissing various interpre-
.auons Of mans mission on this planet,
me preacher said that for one so no
apprehension so like a god" as man,
mere was one mission only. and it was
y realize himself to work out the
lsast and the savage, and TO educate
LIaset as a Christian. so as to de- !
'fVe the name Of a righteous man, be- |
As pure chivalrous, brave, and good, |
of it was still true to proclaim with |
e poet: 'Tis only noble to be good. |
'or The generality of mankind the sur
~ and safest means to that end was |
Iarrlage. Were they not assured there !
vas no more subtle master under I
raven than was the maiden passion |
5lr q maid, not merely TO keep down
ne base i'm man. but to teach high /
NuuShts and all that made a mani?
me man who could write: Il have
q, ., ONE engaged TO girl could add:
IN. .3ad 1 am learning self-reverenoe and
,eu-control." Feeling madly in. love
,oS no test of the reality of love; It
1tored Of passion. and there was no
ial1of SO cruel and cunning as pas
IN Action springing from feeling
,as Tie privilege of a woman: mans
~ was to ignore feeling and follow
-a9on' When a young man said he