The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
PUBLIC FORUM.
REV. WILSON TELLS WHY MAR
RIAGES ARE OFTEN FAILURES.

Many people ask why marriage is !
a failure? Why such a tragedy in al
most every home? Why young lives
are bEghtCd, and strong hearts crush
ed? Why so many shattered hopes |
And why many tender loving hearts
are turned to hate and scOn for the
marriage vow? If marriage is a fail
ure; and we are liberal enough tC
admit it is, to great extent, we are
to blame.
At this age men and women are
very thoughtless, and in their greed
for easy sailing in this life. and
through their passionate desires to
be appeased, they rush pei mel and
take upon themselves the obligation
of husband and wife, and father and
motherhood.
They only see the side of the road
the sun shines on and they look not
upon the shadows that will overtake
them at the crossroads. They fail
to count up the cost, and the ideas
and things common IN their lives so
essential to their future happiness
They fail to look for, and find those
traits of character and tendencies
that go to make their destiny. The
whole world seems to be void in
great measure of the happiness and
divine union that should exist be
tween husband and wife. Among all
classes of people, regardless to race
or color or previous conditions, high
and low, rich and poor. learned and
unlearned, refined and unrefined, the
cause and effect are the same.
Happiness is not bought with mon
ey or earthly possessions alone, for
the person who finds an empty void
in their lives. They hunger and long
for something higher and more last
ing-a loving and congenial blending
of another fife into theirs. Happi-
ness and contentment are bought with
deeds of love. thoughtfulness and
sympathy, patience, suffering, endur
ance and loving Kindness, which
should flow through us from the
great loving heart of God who di-
reefs Holy union of man and woman.
Marriage is a failure because men
and women are alike, foolish and
giddy They follow. and are capt.
waited by the false instead of the
true, the clamor for the shining
brass, and not the pure gold. They
are blind, and do not try to see and
understand the character, principles
and tendencies, nor do they seek It
find out and understand the idea OF
the person they are about to take
the life voyage with. They fail to
search for the real soul mate, that
| the wise Father mas prepared for
them. They do not seek to find Out
their inner nature, and the things
they must endure. They fail to get
into each others own little world,
and weave their little web of love
and confidence. They should become
acquainted with the invisible person
| the hidden likes and dislikes that
| are so vital to their future happiness
and well being. People fail to re
alize how sacred the tie, that should
blind, and in haste they make the
| fatal leap. like a man walking in his
sleep, fails to feel his way. They
| bind upon themselves the burdensOm
yoke of matrImony in haste, to re-
pent at leisure. And as last,
ritcth like a serpent and stingeth
like an after Sadly they awake
and come to themselves with awe
when its all too late. The finer
natures have worped their charac-
Ter shaken. their nerves wrecked
hopes shattered, their sweet and
gentle dispositions impaired, and they
find themselves wandering in tn
valley Of despair, without the star Of
hope to lead them.
They find themselves defeated in
their own efforts to attain happiness,
because they failed to study, learn
and understand the hidden mysteries
in each other,
These dreadful conditions exist he
cause so many of our people are IN
equally yoked together. They differ
| in ideas, tastes and fancies, the +
sympathes are not in the same
channel, nor their iedas of living the
same, and as a result, one becomes
simple the other wise. one has
no moral honor, the other has the
integrity of a giant. One loves home.
religion, books, music friends, flow
ers and birds, while the other has
no interest in any Of them. their
ideas of a perfect life of harmon
ana COMPROMISING are us inherent
as autumn and spring. Hence, after
passionate and selfish motives have
been satisfied, the thrill of congenlal
rompanionship is lost, and each Of
their lives become morbid, happiness
flee as bird to the mountain. Only
eternity can tell of the failures and
broken hearts.
CTo he continued next week.
VIM WILSON.
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