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Rh flesh. In this way they explain the reason for God dispensing with His own law in a special case of the woman without issue being permitted to marry her deceased husband's brother, although God distinctly states, "A man shall not marry his brother's wife." The study of Nature or physiology cannot be perfect yet, when the God of Nature, who must know and cannot err, declares that consanguinity is established at once, or, at any rate, man and wife are one flesh, their bloods are united, their sanguinity is for ever united.

Then, shall we say that man, who is fallible,. knows better than God, who is infallible and the Author of nature? No.

It is, I repeat, one step on the way towards God's truth for man to say that consanguinity is established through offspring.

The next discoveries, if man in his carnal mind can make them, will be that by marriage not only a union of flesh is at once established, but that the sanguinity of the woman is imparted to the man, and that of the man to the woman, so that her relations are his and his hers.

While one may wish for such discoveries to be brought about, yet one cannot but feel that the mystery of marriage can never be solved by unsanctified knowledge. Offspring is a fact, but how it comes to pass is a miracle to man. It requires the eye of faith to see the glorious union