The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-07-31 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

PRUDENT MARRIAGES.  On Sunday evening the Bishop of Manchestet preached at the opening of St. Thomas's Church, Pres. ton. His Lordship, after speaking of the indifference that was manifested nowadays in the selection ol sponsors, SINd that many young people got married be fore they could be quite certain whether they could pa, fur their nextBunday's dinner. He did list know that this evil was much worse to-day than it was some vean ago Nodeubt these were foolish marriages in a money point of view. But that was not the main point, if the young , people had got health and industry. There was anothet point more important. Two young people were married They had a:family, and he would ask to what extent had those young persons, before or since marriage. realised their .responsibility. Did the young man when he felt in love with the young woman do so beoause thought she would make him & faithful and loving wife, mid be a careful and diligent mistress of household and a wise and firm mother of his children , or was he caught by a pretty face or a fashionable style of dress, or some of those utterly worthless at. traetions which did not last sometimes through the honeyinuon, and which then made him find out, when too late to reotay the mischief, that be had married Sonic worthless heartless, silly thing, who had got no idea of the .duties of life, and had novel /wen instructed how to discharge them ? And he would ask a young woman, when she said " Yes" to a .young man who courted -her what did she look at t Did sic consider whether that young man would make . her a Inippy home for the rest of her life ; whether he would be staid, sober, industrious, and loving? Did she consider whether he was an exemplary fellow, or Otto with a tendency to intemperance. known to be : jovial companion, a frequenter of freeemd-easies ? lie thought that the young woman who married a sot, a drunkard, or spendthrift must, if she has wisdom at all, see the wow/ponces ; must see the misery she was laying up for herself, a future full of SSldnesS mid sorrow. The sanctities /if domestic life were serious and important, not to be lightly le, died at. To parents he would urge that they I did their duty fully and eompletely to their children. Certainly children were at tIIIIOB unmanageable : but that often arose from the .foolish principle in many families of seulding to-day and petthig to-morrow. j Children wanted to be treated firmly kindly, lovingly; I end above all it was pre-eminently important they j should Maio put before them a good example. Parents IOUS! Loa& t heir children to love and respect them. If a little child saw father .and toothier quarrelling, sot silting e4ch other, sir neglecting, to attend a place of worship, the child mold not fail to grow up indifferent. To all parents he would solemnly hold, !1111:he divine injunction that they were to train up 1 a cella in t to way which should make it a goOd arid anti it citizen, :1:;.d which should lead to the kingdom ' of God.  An inquiring Ermelnum, landing from the boat at , Dover, deciphered. with the aid of his pocket dictionary. an inscrinti•ca 70 Imis effect :—" By order of the t'rpuraui 'us only flies allowed to stand here." Ile immediately entered in his note-book a remark which may be translated as follows :—" The municipal paiive :ire deucedly rigid in England. The assembling ii flies Laorwiie,j even is forbidden."  The execution of Monger, a German, convicted of murder on the hizit seas. and Murphy, who brutall) nmrdered a ty.,y at Stratford, is fixed for Monday, August 2nd. Both prisoners eat. drink, and sb•ei, well, and appear rosigned. X.O ,11,T. an intellivut vouoij man, who is a Latiowan, tki,ploys most of hii ;,m, in ill, •'•• ..as works in Geri:mh .11 .risov *her readout write.  Cv