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 authority is essential to the very existence of conjugial love. This liberty does not imply a license for either party to follow freely any vicious inclination, or any course inimical to their conjugial or domestic happiness. It implies liberty in all things that are orderly,–the free enjoyment of the rights which belong to the husband and wife, as parties in a covenant, the benefits of which can only be truly realised by the freest affection—by mutual service yielded by love, not extorted by fear. True love ever desires reciprocation; and love can only be reciprocated by love; but there can neither be love nor reciprocation, except where there is liberty.

I have not dwelt on the economical duties of marriage,—some of which are proper to the husband, and others to the wife,—as the distinction is well known and acknowledged. These duties, equally important and useful, are intended to meet in the common uses of marriage—order, comfort, and happiness. The rearing and education of children, where Providence has seen good to bestow them, is a duty in which a more immediate co-operation is required; and where unity of mind, and plan, and all the virtues of conjugial love are essentially necessary to full success.

V. I now come lastly to show the indissoluble nature and everlasting duration of true marriage.

Under this head, it is my intention to show that true marriage is not a temporary, but an eternal