| Show tim THE BEAUTY OF MARRIAGE in open ingan 0 old book the other day the first p passage that my eye fell upon was this I 1 copy it entile although I 1 do not believe every woid it contains the old lifter says madriago Mai Alai riago has in hi it less of beauty but more of safety than single life it hatli hath more case but loss less danger 0 it is mote merry and more sad it i t is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys jobs it lies under more burdens but is is supported by ill all the strengths of love and charity and those burdens are delightful marriage is the mother of the world and preserves pie serves kingdoms and fills cities and churches and hea heaven von itself celibacy like the fly in the heart of the apple dwells in perpetual sweetness but sits alone and is confined and dies in the singularity but marriage like the useful bee builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower and labors and unites into societies and republics and sends out colonies and feeds the world with delicacies and obeys its ruler and keeps order and exercises many virtues and promotes the interests of mankind in that state of good to which god hath designed the present constitution of the world now you will admit that this is very terse and beautiful it is quite like barrow for compactness and jeremy taylor for sweetness but as I 1 said before it is not all to be agreed to particularly the statement that marriage 1 has aas in in it less of beauty than the I 1 single 37 I 1 life there is hardly anything in the world so beautiful as the union of two loving lovin hearts that are united because of their heir love and for no tint worthier or reason thoro there is hardly in an augury of promise so auspicious as an early love that looks towards marriage as its faithful seal and signet there is hardly any festival among men so 0 genial and happy as ad a wedding 0 day J |
