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“The Choice of a Wife.” SERIES OF SERM NS RING.”

BEGINS A MARRIAGE

DR. TALMAGE on ** THE

BROOKLYN, N. nia Jan. 10,

Tat Rev. T. De Wrtr Tatmaee preached this morning in the Brooktyn Tabernacle, the first of his series of sermons on ‘* The Marriage Ring,” the subject being ‘‘ The Choice of a Wife In the series will be treated the following subjects of the great- est importance to every person: ** The Choice of Husband and Wife ” - Cl a’ cle > tine Marriages and Escapades;’ ‘‘Duties ot Husbands to Wives; ‘‘Duties of Wives to Husbands ;’ ‘‘ In Matters of Religion, Should the Wife go with the Husband or the Husband go with the Wife;”’ ** The Wrong Wavs of Women ;” “ Costume and Morals :’ ‘‘Competent UHousewifery ;’ “Sensible \ ¢ Womanhood;” ‘*Women Who Will Pass Life Sin ‘*Ioflaence of Sisters over Brothers ; ‘The Modern

Novel and Woman;” ‘* Boarding-house and Hotel Life;”’ ** Treatment of Man-sorvant and Maid-servant.” The hymn sung on

the occasion was: *The Morning Light is breakin ve darkness disappears.” An organ 8 Professor Henry Eyre Browne, who selected the first sonata in D n by Ritter for his musical

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theme. After expounding a passage of Scripture, Dr. Taimage took for his text :| Judges xiv, 3: ‘‘ Is there never a wor

among the daughiers of thy brethrey, or amolyg all my pe ople, that tt 5 goest to take a wife ised Philis-

of the unciretim tines ? Dr. Ta'maye #iid :

Samaon, the giawt, is here asking consent of his father and other to marriage with one whom they wht unfitfor him. He was wise In x their counsel, but not wise in rej ug it. Captivated with her

looks, ti olg s0n wan ed oO marry @ danghiér of one of the hostile families, a deceitful, hypocritical, whining and saturn-

ime creature who afterward made for him a world of trouble till she quit him forever. In my text his parents forbade the banns, practically say ‘*When there are so many honest and beautiful maidens of your own country, are you so hard put to fora

lifetime partuer that you propose con. jugality with this foreign flirt? Is there such a dearth of lillies in our Isreelitish gardens that you must wear on your heart

thistle? D> you take a crab apple because there are no pomegranates { ‘is there never @ woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines! ”

Excuseless was he for such a choice ina land and amid a race celebrated for female loveliness and moral worth, a land and a race of which self-denying Abigail, and heroic Deborah, and dazzling Vashti, and pious Esther, and glorious Ruth, and Mary who hugged to her heart the blessed Lard, were only magnificent specimens. 4 midnight folded in their hair, the lakea of liquid beauty in their eye, the gracefulness of spring morning in their posture and gait, were only typical of the greater bril- lience and glory of their soul. Likewise excuseless is any man in our time who makes lifelong alliance with any one who, because of her disposition, or heredity, or habicc, or intellectual vanity, or moral twistification, may be said to be of the Philistines.

The world never owned such opulence of womanly character, or such splendor of womanly manners, or multitudinous in- stances of wifely, motherly, daughterly, sisterly devotion, as it owns to-day. I have not words to express my admiration of good womanhood. Womda is not only man’s equal, but in affectional and religious nature, which is the best part of us, she is seventy-five per cent. his superior. Yea: during the last twenty years, through the increased opportunity opened for female education, the women of the country are better educated than the majority of men; and if they continue to advance in mental- ity at the present ratio before long the majority of men will have difficulty im find- ing, in the opposite sex, enough ignorance to make appropriate consort. If I am un- der a delusion as to the abundance of good womavhood abroad, consequent upon my surroundings since the hour | entered this life until now, I hope the delusion will last until Iembark from this planet. So you will understand, if | say in this course of sermons something that seems severe I am neither cynical nor disgruntled.

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There are in almost every farm hounee in the country, in almost every h f great town, couscientious women, worship ful women, self-sacrilicing women, holy women, innumerable Marys, sitting at the feet of Christ, innumerable mothers helping to feed Christ in the pel disciples, a thousand capped and spectacled grandmothers Lois, bending ‘over Bibles whose precepts they have followed from early girlhood, and tens of thousands of young women that are dawning upon us from school and seminary, that are going to bless the world with good and happy homes, that shall eclipse all their predecessors, a fact that will be acknowledged by all men ex- cept those who are struck through with moral decay from toe % cranium; and more

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inexcuseble than the Samson of the text is|

that man who amid all this unparalleled munificer.ce of womanhood marries a fool. Bat some of you are abroad suffering from disaster, and to halt others of you from going over the same precipice, I cry outin the [ text : ‘‘Is there

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words of my never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou woest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Phiiistines ? ”

There are thousands of American pulpits, among them this pulpit, guilty in the fact on some of the snbjects on which men and women need practical advice they have been sile’ t or teaching them only in force- less circumlocuticn. About the choice of a lifetime companion, aquestion in which so much ef time and all of eternity are involv- ed, What almost universal silence in the ehurch, so that there are not ten pesple in this h« use wh upon this then

ever heard is the one I am preaching. We

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‘from Adam’s side.

straight’ on from fence to fence, however mang nests of moles and serpents may be ripped up by the fourrow, and however many alarmed people may ery ‘Whoa !” That marriage is the destination of the human race is a mistake that [ want to correct before 1 go further. There are multitudes who never will marry, and still greater multitud s who are not fit to marry In Great Britain to-day there are 948,000 more women than men, and that, I under- stand, is about the ratio in America. By mathematical and inexorable law, you see millions of women will never marry. The supply for matrimony greater than the de mand, the first lesson of which is that every woman ought to prepare to take care of herself if need be. Then there are thousands of men who have no right to marry, because they have hecome a0 cor otier ol

rupt of character that their marriage is an insult to any good woman. Society will have to be toned

up and corrected on this subject, so that it shall realize that if.a woman who has sacrificed her honor is unfitted for mar- riage, so is any man who has ever sacrificed his purity. What right have you, O mas- culine beast, whose life has been loose, to take under your care the spotlessness of a virgin reared in the sanctity of a respect- able home? Willa buzzard dare to court a dove?

But the majority of you will marry and have aright to marry, and as your religious teacher I wish to say to these men : in the choice of a wife firat of all seek D vine direction, About 35 years ago, when Mar- ot Farquhar Topper, the English poet, urged men to prayer before they decided upon matrimonial association, people laughed. And some of them have lived to laugh on the other side of their 1a°%uth, The need of Livine direction I argue from the fact that so many mer, and some of wrecked their

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and this woman of Timvath, Witness

Socrates pecked of the bisturical Nantippe. Witness Job, whose wife had nothing t

prescribe for his carbuncles but allopathic l profanity. Witness Ananias, : liar, who might, perhaps, have been cared by a trathfal spouse, yet marrying as creat \ liar as himself—Sapphira. Witeess John Wesley, f the best men that ever

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one of lived, united to one of the most outrageous and scandalous of womer, who sat in City Road Chapel making mouths at him while he preached. Witness the once conunbial wretehedness of John Ruskin, the great art essayist, and Frederick W. Robertson, the great preacher. Witness a thousand hells on earth kindled by unworthy wives, ter magants that scold like a March north. easter; female spendthrifts, that put their husbands into fraudulent achemes to get money enough to meet the lavishment of domestic expenditure; opium-eating women 400,000 of them in the United States—who wiil have the drug tho it should cause the eternal damnation Of the

hole household; heartless and over-bear- ing, and namby-pamby and unreasonable women, get married; married, perhaps, to good men. These are the women who build the lew club-houses, where tho hus- bands and sons go because they can’t atend it at home. On ‘this sea of matrimony, where so many have been wrecked, am | not right in advising Divine pilotage /

Especially is devout supplication needed, because of the fact that society is so full of artificislities that men are deceived as io whom they are marrying, and no one but the Lord knows. After the dressmaker aud the milliner, and the jeweller, and the hair-adjuster, and the dancing-master, and the cosmetic artist have completed their work, how is an unsophisticated man to decipher the physiological hieroglypbics, and make accurate judgment of who it is to whom he offers hand and heart. That iz what makes so many recreant husbands. They make an honorable marriage contract, hunt the goods delivered are so different from the sample by which they bargained. They were simply swindled, and they backed out. They mistook Jezebel for Longfellow’s Evangeline, and Lucretia Bor gia for Martha Washington

Aye, as the Indian chief boasts of the scalps he has taken, so there are in society tu-day many coquettes who boast cf the masculine hearts they have capiured. And these women, thongh they may live amid richest upholstery, are not so honorable as the cyprians of the street, for these adver- tise theirinfamy, while the former profess heaven while they mean hell. There is so much counterfeit womanhood abroad it is no wonder that some cannot tell the genuine coin from the base. Do you not realize you need Divine guidance when I remind you that mistake is possible in this important affair, and, if made, is irrevocable !

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The worst predicament possible is to be unhappily yoked together. You see it is impossible to break the yoke. The more you pull apart the more galling tho The minister might bring you up again, and in your presence read the marriage ceremony backward, might put you on the opposite sides of the altar from where you were when you were united, might take the ring off the finger, might rend the wedding vei! asunder, might tear out the marriage leaf from the family Bible record; but all that would fail to unmarry you. It is better not to make the mistake than to attempt its correction. But menand women do not reveal all their characteristics till after marriage, and how are you to aveid com- mitting the fatal blunder? There is only one Being in the Universe who can tell you whom to cheose, and that is the Lord of Paradise. He mado Eve for Adam, and Adam for Eve, and both for each other Adam had not a large group of women from whom to select bis wife, but it is fortunate, judging from some mistakes which she afterwards made, that it was Eve or nothing.

There is in all the world some one who was made for you as certainly as Eve was made for Adam. All sorts of mistakes oceur becanse Eve was made out of a rib Nebody knows which

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‘of his twenty-four ribs were taken for

the nucleus. If yon depend entirely upon

| yourself in the selection of a wife, there are | twenty-three pcssibilities to one that yon

have ever heard a discourse | +; and the fairest one I heave!

leave to the flippant novel, or the spectacu- |

lar play, or the jingle of a doggerel rhyme, that which ought to burden the mcst tre- mendous sermon a minister ever preaches,

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will select the wrong rib. By the fate of

Ahab, whose wife induced him to steal ; by |

the fate of Macbeth, whose wife pushed him into massscre; by the fate of James Ferguson, the philosopher, whose wife entered the room while he was lecturiny and wilifuily upset his astronomical appara-

from the day when he takes ordination to|tns, so that he turned to the audience and

the day when in God. And 80, am going to whifflstree, and plough clear

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London and withdrew from her company, leaving her with the one dezen dogs whom she entertained as pete; by the fate of John Milton, wbo marrieda termagent after he was blind, and when some one called her a rose, the pvet said; “Il am no judge of colors, but it may be so, for I feel the thorns daily;’ by the fate af an English- man, whose wife was 80 determincd to danes on his grave, that he was buried in the sea; by the fate of a village minister whom I knew whose wife threw a cup of hot tea across the table because they differed in sentiment—by all these scenes of diequietude and domestic calamity, we tm- plore yer to be cautious and prayerful before yca enter upon the connubial state, which decides whether a man shall have two heavens or two hells,a heaven here and heaven forever, or a hell now and & hell here» fter.

By the bliss of Pliny, whoxe wife, when her husband was pleading in court, had messengers coming and going to inform her what impression he was making; by the joy Geotiva, whose wife delivered him from prison uader the pretence of having books carried out lest they be injurious to his health, she sending out her husband un- observed in one of the book-cases; by the good fortune of Roland, in Louis’ time, whose wife translated and composed for ter husband, while Secretary of the lLno- terior-——talented, heroic, wonderful Madame Roland; by tho happiness of many a man who has made intelligent choice. of one eapable of being prime couns:llor and companion in brightness and grief — pray to Almighty God, morning, noon and night, that at the right time and in the right way, He will send you a good, honest, loving, sympathetic wife; or if she is not sent to you, that you may he sent to her.

At this point let me warn you not to let » question of this importance be setiled by the celebrated matchmakers, in alincst every community. Depend upon your own judgment, Divinely illumined. These brokers ip matrimony are ever planning how they can unite impecunious innocence to an heiress, or celibate woman to millien- aire cr marquis, and that in many cases makes life an unhappiness. How can any human being, who knows neither of the two parties as God knows them, and who is ignorant of the future, give such direction as you require at such acrisis. Take the sdvice of the earthly matchmaker instead of the Divine guidance, and you may some day be led to use the words of Solomon, whose experience in home life was as mel- ancholy as it was multitudinous.

One day his palace with its great wide rooms and great wide Coors and great wide hall, was too small for him and the lond tongue of a woman belaboring him about some cf his neglects, and he retreated to the housetop to get relief from the lingual bombardment. And while there he saw a poor man on one corner of the roof with a mattress for his only furniture, and the open sky his only covering. And Solemon envies him and cries out: ‘‘It is better to dweilin the corner of the honsetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.”’

And one day during the rainy season, the water leaked threugh the roof of the palace and began to drop in a pail or pan set there to catch it. And at one side of him all day long the water went Drop ! Drop! Drop! while on the other’side a female companion quareliing about this and quarreiling about that, the acrimoni- ous and petulent words falling on his ear in ceaseless pelting— Drop! Drop! Drop! and he seized his pen and wrote: ‘*4 con- tinual dropping in a very rainy day and a

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i] contentious woman are alike.”

if Solomon bad been as prayerful at the beginning of his life as he was at the close how much domestic infelicity he would have avoided. Bat prayer about this will amount to nothing unless you pray soon enough. Wait until you are fascinated, and the equilibrium of your soul is dis- turbed by a magnetic and exquisite pre- seuce, end then you will answer your own prayers, and you will mistake your own infatuation for the voice of God.

If you have this prayerful spirit you will surely avoid all female scoffera at the Chris tian religion; and there are quite a number of them in all communities. It must be told that, though the only inflaence that keeps woman from being estimated and treated e3 a slave—aye, asa brute and a beast of burden—is Christianity, since where it is not dominant she is ao treated; yet there are women who will so far forget themselves and forget their God that they will go and hear lecturers malign Ghris- tianity and scoff at the most cacred things ofthe sou). A good woman, over-persnaded by her husvand, may go once to hear such a tirade against the Chrisiian religion, not fully knowing what she is going to hear; but she will not go twice. A woman, not a Christian but a respecter of religion, said jto me: ‘*T was persuaded by my husband to go and hear an infidel lecturer once, but going home I said to him: ‘My dear hus- band, I would not go again though my declinature should result in our divorcement forever.’” And the woman was right. If, after all that Christ and Christianity has done for a woman, she can go again and again to hear such assaults, she is an awful creature, and you had better not come near ,such a reeking lepress. She needs to be wasted and for three weeks to be soaked in carbolic acid, and for a whole year fumi- gated, hefore she is fit fer decent society. While it is not demanded that a women be a Christian before marriage, she must have regard for the Christian religioa or she is a bed woman apd unworthy of being your companion iv alife charged with such stupendous solemnity and vic‘ssitudes.

What you vant, O man! in a wife, is not a butterfly of the sunshine, not a gigg'ing nonentity, not a painted doll, not a gossip- ping gad-about, not a mixture of artificiali- ties which leave you in doubt as to where the humbug ends and the woman begins, but an eernest soul, one that can not only laugh when you laugh, but weep when you weep. There will be wide, deep graves in your path of life, and you will both want seadying when you come to the verge of them, I teil you! When your fortune fails you will want some one to talk of treasures ‘in Heaven, and not charge upon you a bitter, ‘I told you go.” As far as I can analyze it, sincerity and earnestness are the foundation of all werthy wifehood. Gat that and get all. Fail to get that and you /get nothing but what you will wish you inever had got,

Don't make the mistake that man ef the

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a beautiful house near

_in this coarse of sermons, I | misfortune to be married to this women; | tion in which coolest judgment directed by hitch up my beat team to the by the fate of Bulwer, the novelist, whose

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Divine Wisdom, are all important.

put the coulter of the wife's temper was so incompatible that he who hes no reas«n for his wifely choice ex- up to the beam, and go furnished her

cept a pretty face, is like a man who should

‘THH DAILY HXAMINER,

buy a farm because of the dahlias in the front dooryard. Beauty ia a talent, and when God gives it Ee intends it as a bene- diction upon a woran’s face. When the good Princess of Wales dismounted froim ‘he railtrain Jast summer, and | saw her radi- ant face, I could understand what they told me the day before that, when at the great military hospital where are now the wound- ed aid the sick from the Egyptian and other wars, the Princess passed through, all the sick were cheered at her coming, and those who could be roused neither by doctor or nurse from their stupor, would get up on their elbows to look at her, and wan and wasted lips prayed an audible prayer : ‘‘God bless the Princess of Wales ! Doesn't she look beautiful ?”

But how uncertain is the tarrying of beauty in a human countenance. Explo- sion of a kerosene lamp turns it into scari- fication, anda ecoundrel with one dash of vitriol may dispel it, or Time wil! drive his chariot wheels across that bright face, cut- ting it up in deep ruta and gullies. But there is an eternal beauty on the face of some women whoma rough and ungallant world may criticize as homely, and though their features may contradict all the laws of Levater on physiognomy. yet they have graces of soul that will keep them attrac- tive for time and glorious through all eternity.

There are two gr three circumstances in which the plamest wife is a queen of beauty to her husband, whatever her stature or profile. By financial panic or betrayal of business partner the man goes down, and returning to bis home that evening he says: ‘IT am ruined; | am disgraced forever; I care pot whether 1 live or die.” It is an agitated story he is telling in the household that winter night. He says: ‘‘ The furn‘- ture must go, the house must go, the social position must go,” and from being sought for obsequiously they must be colde shouldered everywhere. After he ceases talking, avd the wife has heard all in silence, she says: ‘‘Is that all? Why, you had nothing when I married you, and you have only come back to where you started. If you think that my happiness and that of the childreg d+ pend en these trappings you do not know me, though we have lived together thirty years. God is not dead, and the National Bank of Heaven has not suspended paymeni, and if you don’t mind I don’t care a cent. What little we need of food and raiment the rest of our lives we can ge!, and 1don’t propose tositdown and mope and gran. Mary, hand me that darning needle. And, John, light one of the other gas burners. And, Jimmy, open the register for a litile more heat, Fanny. fetch your father’s slippers. I declare! I have forgotten to set the rising for those cakes! Aud while she is busy at it be hears her hummiag Newton's old hymn, ‘** To-morrow.”

“It can bring with it nothing

But He will bear us through ; W ho gives his lillies clothing

Wil clothe his people too; Beneath the spreading heavens

No creature but is fed;

And he who feeds the ravens Will give bis children bread,

“Though vine nor fig-treee either Their wented fruit should bear, Though all the fields should wither Nor flocks nor herds be there ; Yet Ged the same abiding,

His praise shall tune my voice : For while in Him confiding

I cannot but rejoice.”

The husband locks up in amazement and says: ‘* Weil, well, you are the greatest woman I eversaw. I thought you would faint dead away when I told you.” And as he looks at her, all the glories of phy- siaguomy in the court of Louis XV. or the modern fashion plates, are tame as com- pared with the superhuman splendors of that women’s face. Joan cf Are, Mary Antoinette and La Belle Hamilion, the enchantment of the court of Charles II. are nowhere.

There is another time when the plainest wife is a queen of beauty to her hus- band. She has done the work of life. Ske has reared her children for God and Heaven, and though some of them may be a little wild they will yet come back, for God has promised. She is dying and her husbend standsby. They think overall the years of their companionship, the weddings and the burials, the ups and the downs, the successes andthe failures. They talk over the goodness of God and His faithfulness to children’s children. Shehas no fear about going. The Lord has sustaived her so m*ny years she wou'd not dare to distrust Him now. ‘Lhelipsof both of them tremb!e as they say good bye end encourage ech other about ap early meet ng in a better world. The breath is fveblerand feebler, and stops. Are yousure ofit? Just held that mirror at the mouth and se» if there is any vapor gathering on the surface. Gone ! as one of the neighbors takes the old man by the arm gently and says: ‘Come, you had better go into the next room and rest;” he says: ‘Wait a moment: I must take one more look at that face and those hands !” Beauti- ful! Beautiful!

My frends, [ hope you do not call that death. ‘Thatis an antumnal sunset. That isa crystalline river pouring into a crystal sea. That is the solo of haman life over- powered by halielyjih chorus. That is the Queen’s coronation. Thatis Heaven. Thet isthe way my fa'her stool at eighty-twe, seeing my mother depart at seventy-nine, Perhaps a3 your father and mother went. I wonder if we will die as weil }

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