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HEN our great Teacher came to him for baptism, 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 advancement of spiritual good.

Marriage is the only legal and moral provision for generation among human kind. 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 union should continue, under such moral regulations as will secure increasing virtue. Infidelity to the marriage covenant is the social scourge of all races, “the pestilence that walketh in darkness,. . . the destruction that wasteth at noonday.” The commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” is no less imperative than the other, “Thou shalt not kill.”