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274 and the Father, is this, — to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” Pride, envy, or jealousy seems, on most occasions, to be the master of ceremonies, ruling out primitive Christianity.

When a man lends a helping hand to some noble woman, struggling alone with adversity, his more prudent wife is apt to say, “It is never well to interfere with your neighbor's business.” A wife is sometimes debarred, by a covetous domestic tyrant, from giving the ready aid her sympathy and charity would afford.

The time cometh when marriage will be a union of hearts, when husbands and wives will love one another

more sincerely than at present. Furthermore, the time also cometh of which Jesus spake, when he declared that in the resurrection there should be no more marrying or giving in marriage, but man should be as the angels. Then shall Soul rejoice in its own, wherein passion hath no part. Then white-robed purity shall unite masculine Wisdom and feminine Love in spiritual understanding and perpetual union. Until it is learned that generation rests on no sexual basis, let marriage continue, and let us permit no such disregard of law as may lead to a worse state of society than now exists. Honesty and virtue ensure the stability of the marriage covenant. Spirit will ultimately claim its own, and the voices of physical sense be forever hushed.

Marriage should be the school of virtue, and man's

offspring should be the germ of his highest nature. May Christ, Truth, be present at every bridal altar, to turn the water into wine, and give