Evening journal., 1919-09-09
RECTOR
TAKES FLING AT
MARRIAGE MART
CONTINUED From First Psge.l

Elhiou lhdIIludge Is tnlnb lldLI vuki
not TO be- In most OF my marriage:
the bride and groom have been splen-
did young people and q has given me
great Joy 10 give the blessings Jf the
church. once ! performed the ccre-
m0ny to save the feelings Of tiiid
party. regretted it afterwards, and
spent a sleepless night. DO have such
a thing as a cOnscienes, even thongh
live in Elkt0n. Alas, friends. ! have
seen them and you have seen them,
coming to this town with no idea that
marriage has any san"t.iy-these gum
chewing brides OF ElKTon ! have seen
them in drOVes at the station, and
their very appearance was prophetic Of
divorce For better. for worse meant
nothing 10 Them Neither did any Of
the responsibilities Of the new life
the breeding and raising Of children
mean anything. Tie future lies in the
womb Of the present
Lets Is beware lest generations TO
come shall curse us for our careless
ness in this matter
AS my third point ! want 20 give
you a Study in Reincarnation II is
the year 1850 B. &. ship is sailing
rapidly over the dark blue waters Of
the Aegean. A man and a woman are
in fcverish haste, fleeing from Spqrtq
TO Troy They are Paris, Prince OF
Troy, and his paranour Helen. cx-
queen &c Sparta The ship approaches
the mouth OF the Scamander, the port
to the city. The chariots are lined up
and the c0ntending chariOteers cry out.
In raucous voices, This way TO the
Temple OF Venus. This way 10 the
Temple Of Love. The eloping couple
arc driven quickly TO their destruc-
ton. The High Priest Of Venus. Pan
ilrus. tail anu lank ana fish-eyed, nke
Iassius with a lean and hungry look,
lies the knot
THE scerh changes II is midnight
in large city 4 young man walks
past a window from which streams
forth a glaring red light A sh9dow
appears. IL is tall and lank and flsh-
eyed like Cassius with a lean and
hungry look. There is an ohscence
whisper. Would you like to meet
The man and the shadow
disappear.
Again the scene changes In a GER
ain town the cry is heard This way
10 the court house, The hedge parson
appears. tall and lank and ilsh-eyed. |
ike Cassius with a lean and hungry
ook. His looks do not belle him. lie /
5 hungry for lucre Like young |
.ochinvar he has come out OF the west |
20 marry. As In a barber shop on |
saturday night. the crowds await their |
urn. The marriage market is above |
par and the marriage machine moves |
nerrily On. 4 pronounce you man and /
Vife Give me your money. NeXtp |
,. the times o. the customs Of the |
INES Like carrion crow. the hedge |
)arson sits in his marriage parlor |
waiting an easy living.
81 used 10 think a hitching post was
, stake 10 which horse was tied. /
nave learned differently since coming
10 Elkt0n shame on such a place
Heaven help us 10 change such a con-
ndon Poor mOon-struck Elkton!
Possibly YOU may be surprised, but /
have. actually hear respectable peo- |
pie attempt 10 excuse all this, and so I
take up my fourth point Arguments |
or existing conditions So far as ! /
lave been able TO make out the conten-
ion was either that existing condi-
ions are all right and an these people
hduld get married II they wanted 10
n that II we didn't have a hedge par
on and elopement we'd have some
hing worse
Against the FIRST line OF reasoning I
ay that anything that lowers our
ideals Of marriage is wrong,
nd give an instance Of how present
actually work. In the same
yening paper that before mentioned
read this headline. 'Wooed, Welded
nd Separated in Eleven Days. \ young
irl married a man after four days ac-
uaintance and left him after a week
Z married life As read | said TO my
elf. I feel sure ! know where that
marriage occurred And sure enough
urthet down ! read, They were mar
led in Elkton. That is only one OF
ozen instances I have read OF. Tha
room is supposed TO he at least
wenty-one and I know Of one Young
elbow that -Diogenes would have been
ellghted 10 ind. lie was in the Elk
on station, buying tickets for New Jer-
eN rather downcast because he had
allied to get a license, as he had given
rs age as twenty. As a matter OF fact.
e looked much older than many that
oam hitherward. That man deserved
gold medal.
NJ read OF a separation case where.
tier years of married life. the groom /;
Philadelphia gave his age as eigh- .
'enl Another precious groom said he
.aS over iwenty-one because i'm ono
hoe he had a figure two and in tho
ther a figure one in cardboard Mar
Iage IS a solemn thing. but II is
'eated here as a joke. The inevitable
asult is lies. misery, contentious and
lNorce. How can anyone argue that
are proper?
As to the second line of reasoning |
II you can call 10 such-I have this
say: II we aim high. we NAV pos
bly, hit high but " our ideals are
w, most certainly our practice Will |
low also. We ought 10 keep mar
age pure II we do our part. the |
her people only are responsible |
hese people argue that. as the sewer \
aims from the gutter the Nth Of the \
rect, 90. in the moral sphere. the
edge parson drains of the NTH. For /
y part I think the comparison is an
ltrageous insult 10 the sewer. There
no argument to support conditions
they are
Now for the NTH point What IS
e cause Of the present conditions
he answer lies in the texts ] have
ken. The love Of money has attract
the hypocritical wolf in Sleeps
othing. After all. he is not so much