Nm DEATH OF DR. TALMGE Makes Appropriate Reprinting HIS FAHOUS SERMON - S——————-. A ———————— Considered by Many the Mas- terpiece of the Great Pulpit Orator “On the Choice of a Wife.” Marringes Not For All-Maultitudes Who Never Will Marry, Who Are Not Fit to Marry-—Some Eminent Blunderers.. Avoid Matchmakers—Essential Quali- ties RKeauty a Benediction, Wasmingrox, D. C.—The following discourse is one of a series of sermons on domestic life delivered several years ago by the late Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage, and by many admirers is considered’ his pulpit masterpiece. In commemoration of his death it is now republished. It was founded on the text, Judges xiv, 3: “Is there never .,a woman among the daugh- ters thy brethren, or among my people, that thou goest to a wife of the uncircumd i Samson, the sent of his. father and riage with one whom they for him. He was wise in counsel, but not ing tivated with her looks, the big son wanted to marry a daughter of one of the hostile families, a deceitful, hypocritical, whining and saturnine creature, who afterward made for him a world of trouble till she quit him forever. In my text his parents forbade the banns, practically saying “When there are many honest and beautiful maidens your own country, are you so hard put to for a lifetime part- ner that vou propose conjugality with this foreign flirt? Is there a dearth of lilies in our lIsraelitish gardens that you must wear on your heart a Philistine thistle? Do you take a crabapple because there are no pomegranates? ls there never a woman among the daughters of brethren, or among all my 1 of ail take ised stines’ here asking cc mother to +h he thought bt 0% aii gant, 1s asking wise 1n rejectn it. 80 Of such thy people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircum- cised Philistines?” Excuseless was he for such a choice in a land and amid a race celebrated for fe male loveliness and moral worth, a | and a race which self-de Abigail and heroie Deborah, and dazzling Miriam, and pious Esther, and glorious Ruth, and Mary, who hugged to her heart the blessed Lord, were only magnificent specimens The midnight folded in ir hair, the lakes of hquid beauty in eir eve, gracefulness of spring morning in posture and gait, were only typical reater brilliance and glory of their soul Foe, ny man in our time who makes lifelong alliance with any who, of her position, or or intellectual vanity, fication, may be said to be of th iHistines : The worid never owned such opulence of womanly character or such splendog of womanly manners or iititudinous in- stances wifely, motherly, daughterly, sisterly devotion, as it owns today I have not words to express my admiration for good womanhood Woman is not only man’s equal, but in affectional and re- ligious nature, which is the best part of us, she is seventy-five per cent. Bis su perior. Yea, during the last twenty years. through the increased opportunity opened for female education. the women of the country are better educated than the ma men: and if they continue to advance mentally at the present ratio, be fore long the will diffienlty in fi 3 enougn Of ying the excuseless is because ity, or habits, of jority of jor: i rity of men the opt cons the abu Conese from ths if I say thing cynical nor There the ex great town, ful wo women, I feet of Christ: ing to feed Ci suffering disc : spectacled g imothers over Bibles whose precepts lowed from early girlhood thousands of young w ing upon us from sc i inary, that are going bless the world with good and happy homes, that shall eclipse all their predecessors. a that : acknowledged by all men except those who are struck through with moral decay from toe to cranium; and more inexcusable than the Samson of the text is that man who, amid all this unparalleled muni cence of womanhood, marries a fool. But some of you are abroad suffering from such disaster, and to halt others of vou from going over the same precipice, I ery out in the words of my text: “ls there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncir cumcised Philistines” That marriage is the destination of the human race is a mistake that I want to correct before 1 go further. There are multitudes who never will marry, and still greater multitudes who are not fit to marry. In Great Britain to-day there are nine hundred and forty-eight thousand more women than men, and that, I un- derstand, 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 demand, the first lesson of which is that every woman ought te prepare to take care of herself if need be. Then there are thousands of men who have ne right to marry. because they have become so corrupt of character that their offer of marriage is an insult to any good woman. Society will have to be toned up and cor rected on this subject, so that it shall realize that if a woman who has sacrificed her honor is unfitted for marriage, so is any man who has ever sacrificed his pur- ity. What right have you, O masculine beast! whose life has been loose, to take under your care the spotlessness of a vir- ho reared in the sanctity of a respectable that sunt rey in i heln Lois, they have fo and tens of ymen that are das 1 3 pending 1 to fact will be ome? Will a buzzard dare to court a ove? But the majority of vou will marry, and have a right }o marry, and as your re- ligious teacher I wish to say to these men, in the choice of a wife first of all seek divine direction. About thirty-five years 0, when Martin Farquhar Tupper, the inglish poet, urged men to prayer before they decided upon matrimonial association, ople langhed. And some of them have ived to laugh on the other side of their mouth, The need of . divine direction I argue from the fact that so many men, and some of them strong and wise, have wrecked their lives at this juncture, Wit- ness Samson and this woman of Timnath! Witness Socrates, pecked of the historical Xantippe! Witness Job, whose wife had nothing to prescribe for his carbuncles but allopathic doses of profanity! Witness Ananiae, a liar, who might perhaps have en cured by a truthful spouse, yet mar. ing as great a har as himself ~Sapphira! itness John Wesley, one of the best men that ever lived, united to one of the most outrageous and scandalous of women, who sat in City Road Chapel making mouths at him while he preached! Wit. ness the once connubial wretchedness of John Ruskin, the great art essayist, and Frederick W. Robertson, the great preach- er. Witness a thousand hells on earth kindled by unworthy wives, termagants that scold like a March northeaster; fe- male spendthrifts, that put their hus bands into fraudulent schemes to get money enough to meet the lavishment of domestic expenditure; opium-using wo- men—about four thousand of them in the United States—who will have the drug, though it should cause the eternal damna- tion of the whole household; heartless and overbearing, and namby-pamby and un- reasonable women, yet married—married perhaps to good men! These are the wo- men who build the low club-houses, where the husbands and sons go because they can't stand it at home. On this sea of matrimony, where so many have wrecked, am I not mght in advising divine pilotage? Especially is devout supplication needed, because of the fast that society is so full of artificialities that men are deceived as to whom they are marrying, and no one but the Lord knows. After the dress maker, and the milliner, and the jeweler, and the hair-adjuster, and the dancing master, and the cosmetic art have com pleted their work, how is an unsophisti cated man to decipher the physiological hieroglyphics, and make accurate judg ment of whe it is to whol he offers hand and heart? That is what makes so many recreant husbands. They make an honor. able marriage contract, but the goods de livered are different from the sample by which they bargained They were swindled, and they backed out They | mistook Jezebel for Longiellow’s Evange- | line, and Lucretia Borgia for Martha | Washington. Ave, as the 80 Indian chief boasts of the {tes to-day many cogue who boast of the | masculine hearts they have captured. And | these women, though they may live amid | richest upholstery, are not honorable | as the cyprians of the street, for these | advertise their infamy, while the former profess heaven while they mean hell There 1s much counterfeit woman- hood abroad 1s ne wonder that cannot tell the genuine coin from the | Do you not realize you need waen rem possible in this 18 irrevocat The worst predicament possible is to be unhappily yoked together. You see it is | imjwssible to break the voke. The more you pull apart, the more galling the yoke fhe minister might bring you up again, | and and in your presence read InAar riage ceremony backward, might p you | the opposite sides of the altar from | where you were when you were united, might take the ring off of the finger, might rend the wedding veil asunder, migh® tear out the » leaf from the farmiiy Bible | record, fail unmarry | you. It better the mis take than to tempt its correction. But | men and women reveal all their | characteristics till marriage, and how are you to aveid committing the fatal! blunder? There is only one Being in the | universe who can tell you whom to choos and that is the Lor Paradise, He made Eve for Adam, Adam for Eve and both for each ot Adam had not | a large group f women from whom to his wile, but it is fortunate, judg ing from seme mistakes which she after | ward 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 | occur because Eve was made of a rib | i Adam's side. Nobody knows whic} four nibs was taken for from of his twenty depend entirely nucleus. If vou yourself in the selection of a are twenty-three possibiiiti you will select the wrong ri 3 of Ahab, whose wife induced him to steal: | by the fate of Macbeth, whose wife pushed | him into massacre; by the of James Ferguson, the yilos wpher, whose wife the room while he was lecturing upset his astrone al he turned to the RO RO it divine mistake and, ance flair, made, the ut aon marta but 1% Re of and her sect out the | upon | there | that | wife, one y the fate | fate snd wilifull Mn { ‘1. gentiemen J maitie B illage minister threw a cup i Alise they i scenes fisquiet 1d domestic calamity, we cautious | and prayerful before you upon the | connubial state, which decides wheth ! man shall bave two heavens or two hells, | a heaven here and heaven forever, or a hell now and a bell hereaiter ! Jy the blissa of Pliny, whose wife, her husband was pleading in court, had | messengers coming and going to inform her what impression he was making: be the Joy of Grotius, whose wife delivered him from prison under the pretence of having books carried out lest they be in jurious to his health, she sending out her husband unobserved in one of the book cases; by the good fortune of Roland, in Louis’ time, whose wife translated and composed for her husband while Secretary of the Interior-—talented, heroic, won. derful Madame Roland; by the happiness of many a man who has made intelligent choice of one capable being prime coun selor and companion in brightness and in grief- pray to Almighty God, morning, noon, and night, that at the right time and in the right way He will send vou a good, honest, loving, sympathetic wife: or if she is not sent to you, that you may be sent to her. At this point let me warn you not to let a question of this importance be set tied by the celebrated matehmakers flour ishing in almost every community. De. pend upon your own julgment divinely thumined. hese brokers in matrimony are ever planning how they can unite im- otumous innocence to an heiress, or celi- vate woman to millionaire or marquis, and that in many cases makes life an unhappi- ness. How can any human being, 4 knows neither of the two parties as God knows them, and whe is ignorant of the future, give such directions as you re quire at such a crisis? Take the advice of the earthly match. maker instead of the divine guidance, and you may seme day be led to use the words of Solomon, whose experience in home life was as melancholy as it was multitudinous, One day his palace, with its great wide rooms and great wide doors and great wide hall, was too small for him and the loud tongue of a woman belaboring him about some of his neglects, and he re treated to the housetop to get relief from the fungal bombardment. And while th-re he saw a poor man on one corner of the roof with a mattress for his only furni- ture, and the open = his only covering. And Solomon envies him and eries out: “It is beter to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.” And one day during the rainy season the water faked through the roof of the palace and began to drop in a pail or pan set there to cateh it. And at one side of him all day long the water went drop! drop! drop! while on the other side a female companion quarreling about this, and quarreling about that; the acrimonious and petulant words falling on his ear in ecaseless pelting—drop! oor drop! and he seized his pen and wrote: “A continusl dropping in 3 very rainy se be enter when | day and a contentious woman are alike.” 1f Bolomon had been as prayerful at the beginning of his life as he was at his how much domestic infelicity he would have avoided? But prayer about this will amount te nothing unless you pray soon enough. Wait until vou are {fascinated and the equilibrin'n of your soul is disturbed by a magnetic and exquisite presence, and 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 yon will surely avoid all female scofiers at the Christian religion; and there are quite a number of them in all communities. It must be told that, though the only in- fluence that keeps woman frem being estimated and treated as a slave—ave, ns & brute and beast of burden—is Christi anity, since where it is not dominant she is 80 treated: vet there are women who will so far forget themselves apd forget their God that they will go and hear lec- turers malign Christianity and scoff at the most sacred things of the soul, A good woman, over-persuaded by her husband, may go once to hear such a tirade against the Christian religion, not fully knowin; what she going to hear; but she wil not go twice A woman, not a Christian, but a re: specter of religion, said to me “I was persuaded by my husband to go and hear an infidel lecture once, but going home snid to him “My dear husband, I would not go again though my declination should result in our divorcement forever.” And the woman was right, If after all that Christ and Christianity have done for a woman, she can go again again to hear such an awful crea. ture, and vou had sic h n reek washed, and Doli « £2, ana 107 a ted. before » is fit Whi 3 woman De »a ix and Kite better ASERUILE in near needs to be y be soaked whole year for HAecent demanded that a Chris before not come Rho Car unngn IMAarriege, ian re and un in a life emnity have regard for the Christ she 4 a bad NO ian worthy charged with wh tupendous and viel What man! in a wile, not A doll is butterfly of the sunsh nonentily not a yasiping gadabout, not a mixture of which doubt as to where the humbug ends and the woman but an earnest I, one that can- not only | h when you hut weep when you weep. There will be wide, deep graves in vour path and you will both want steadyin you come te When your some to ae, ' giggling painted i eave You In life g when I tell you wii of fortune fails you want one titer told vou so vie sthoenity and foundation of aX worthy wifehood hat, and you get n 4 H hy and at wat) al o get that, and you get noth iH wish vou never had upon von with a b As far as 1 CArnestiness ire Can ans the Get t Don’t make th sential vat of the text made l the nuestion in directed by’ divi portant He wh fely choice except a man who should } the dahlias in gO the man settle TT igment his eve aolest ja m Aare a reason for me his like farm because of the yorvard leauty is a talent, and when God gives it He in as & bened PON 8 woman's When Princess of Wales from the rail train last sun her e, | ronld they told me the day when at the great military hosp are now inded and the sick the Egyptian and other wars, the Princess passed through, all the ity lace 1s front giction tends it the g i and I radiant fa mer wa what before, t } ital where the w from from i be roused neither by doe their stupor their elbows to look at wasted lips prayed an tor nor would get up on her, and wan and andible prayer nurse from she look beautiful? But uncertain bzauty ina hu fn countenance: {f a kerosene re turns iit into one mg of Explosion rifics dash of i how t= the farrs wa $ with mn nd a may drive ; face, But unga and t all yet am rr i i am whether agitated story he that winter must 1 SH care <1 al from they evervwhnere and she says beng must be After he the wife has heard all “Is that all®* Why. when I married you, and come back to where yon think that my happiness the children depend on these do not know me. though we have lived tozether thirty vears. God is not dead, and the National Bank of Heaven has not suspended payment, and you mind, I don’t care a cent What little we need of food and raiment the rest of our lives we can get, and 1 don’t pronose to sit down and mope and groan Mary. hand me that daring needle, 1 declare! 1 have forgotten to set the rising for those cakes! And while she is buey at it he hears her humming Newton's old hymn. “Tomorrow.” The husband looks up in amazement, and says: “Well, well, you are the great. est woman | ever saw. [I thought vou wonld faint dead away when I told vou.” And az he looks at her all the glories of physiognomy in the Court of Louisa XV, on the modern fashion plates, are tame as compared with the superhuman splendors of that woman's face. Joan of Are, Mary Antoinette, and La Belle Hamilton, 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 husband. She has done the work of life. She has reared her children for God and heaven, and though some of them may be a hitle wild they will yet come back, for God has promised. She is dving, and her husband stands by. They think over all the years of their companionship, the weddings and the burials, the ups and the down, the successes and the failures. They talk over the ness of God and His faith- fulness to children’s children. She has no fear about going. The Lord has sustained her so many years she would not dare to distrust Him nov. lips of both of them tremble as they say good-by and en. courage each other about an early meeting in a better world, The breath is feebler and feebler, and stops. Are you sure of it? Just hold that mirror’ at the mouth, and see 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 reat.” he save: “Wait a moment: I must take one more look at that face and at those hands!” Beautiful! Beautiful! My friends. I hope you do not eall that death. That is an autumnal sunset. That ia a erysialline river pouring into a ® tal sea hat is the solo of human overpowered by halleluiali ehoros, a queen's coionation. That is heaven. 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