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270 the husband and wife were Christian Scientists. Science inevitably lifts one's being higher in the scale of harmony and happiness.

Kindred tastes, motives, and aspirations are necessary to the formation of a happy and permanent

companionship. The beautiful in character is also the good, welding indissolubly the links of affection. A mother's affection cannot be weaned from her child, because the mother-love includes purity and constancy, both of which are immortal. Therefore maternal affection lives on, under whatever difficulties.

From the logic of events we learn that selfishness and impurity alone are fleeting, and that Wisdom will ultimately put asunder what she hath not joined together.

Marriage should improve the human species, becoming a barrier against vice, a protection to woman,

strength to man, and a centre for the affections. This, however, in a majority of cases, is not its present tendency, and why? Because the education of the higher nature is neglected, and other considerations, — passion, frivolous amusements, personal adornment, display, and pride — occupy thought.

An ill-attuned ear calls discord harmony, not appreciating concord. So physical sense, not discerning the

true happiness of Being, places it on a false basis. Science will correct the discord, and teach us Life's sweeter harmonies.

Soul hath infinite resources, wherewith to bless mankind; and happiness would be more readily attained, and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul. Higher enjoyments alone can satisfy the cravings