Unequally Yoked

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“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”—(2 Cor. 6:14).

Eliza Embert of Paris was the daughter of a wealthy citizen. She was betrothed to a young man who was both handsome and much thought of. The evening preceding the wedding they were at a party where gaiety and laughter abounded. The bridegroom was in fine spirits, and he entertained the young folks with sly remarks upon religion, or “old women’s faith,” as he called it.

Finally the bride approached him quietly and asked him to stop such mockery as she could not endure it. He however would not hear her request and said, “My clever little bride is surely not involved in such silly things,” and then proceeded to jest all the more.

A second time his bride approached him, and with tears in her eyes and a tremor in her voice, said firmly: “From this moment I am no more yours. Whoever does not hold God and His Word sacred, will not hold the marriage tie sacred; and whoever does not love God will not truly love his wife.”

This brought the young man to his senses. He insisted he was merely jesting and pretended he did have some respect for God and His Word. But it was all in vain. She abode by her resolution, and never had need to repent of it.

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