SERMON ON MARRIAGE.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3981, 1 October 1881, Page 1

SERMON ON MARRIAGE.

As a sample of preaching extraordinary, we give the fall text of the exordium of « sermon preached by the Her T. De Witt Talmage:—" Morning without a cloud. Atmosphere without a chill. Foliage without a thorn. Fit morning for the world's first wedding: It shall be in church the great temple of a world, sky-domed, mountain-pillared, sapphire roofed.; 1 The sparkling Waters of the Gihon and the Hiddkel will make the font of the temple. Larks, robins, and goldfinches will chant the wedding march. Violet, lily, and rose. burning incense in the morning sun. Luxuriant Tinea.sweeping thrir long trails through the forest aisle. Upholstery of a spring morning. Wild beasts standing outside the circle looking on, like family servants from the back door gazing upon the nuptials. The eagle, king of birds ; the locust king of insects; the lion king of beasts—waiting. Carpets of grass, like emerald, for the human pair to walk on. Hum of excitement, as there always is before a ceremony. Grass blades and leaves whispering, and the birds a chatter, each.to his mate. Hush all the winds, hush all the birds, hush the noise of waters; for. the king of the human race advances with his bride—a perfect man leads to the altar a perfect woman—and tears of morning dew stand in the eyes of violets, and Adam takes the round hand that had never been worn with work or stung with pain into bis own stout grasp as he snys, 'This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.' Tumult a of joy break forth, and all.the trees of the wood clap their, bands, and all the galleries of the forest sound with carol and chirp and chant, and the circlo of Edeoic happidess is complete; for while every quail hath answering quail, and every fi*ish answering fish, and every fowl answering fowl, and every beast of the forest appropriate companion, at last man, the immortal, has for mate-woman the immortal. Married, on the second Tuesday morning iv May of the year one, Adam, the first man, to Eye, the first woman, high heaven officiating, Away with the coarse notion that a marriage is a mere civil contract. It is a Para* disaical, 6000 year old Divine Institution, and all the laws since Blackstone or before BlackstoDe cannot appropriately marry two hearts unless the Lord Almighty has first married them."