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HEN our great Teacher went to be baptized, John was astounded. Reading his thoughts, Jesus added, “Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.” His concessions to material methods were for the adjustment of spiritual good.

Marriage is the only legal and moral provision for generation among the higher species. Until the spiritual creation is discerned, and the union of male and female apprehended as in the vision of the Apocalypse, — where its spiritual sense was revealed from heaven, — this rite should continue, under such moral regulations as will secure increasing virtue.