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Rh to human life an inspiration whereby man's spiritual origin and existence may be discerned.

If the foundations of human affection are consistent with progress, they will be strong and enduring.

Divorces should warn the age of some fundamental error in the marriage state. The union of the sexes suffers fearful discord. To gain Christian Science, and consequently the harmony of this relation, it should be more metaphysically regarded, and less physically.

The broadcast powers of evil, so conspicuous to-day, show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of

the age, struggling against the advancing spiritual era. Beholding the world's lack of Christianity, and the powerlessness of vows to make good husbands and wives, the human mind will at length demand a higher affection.

There will ensue a fermentation over this, as over many other reforms, until we get at last the clear straining

of Truth, and impurity and error are left among the lees. The fermentation, even of fluids, is not pleasant. An unsettled, transitional stage is never desirable on its own account. Matrimony, which was once a fixed fact among us, must lose its present slippery footing, and find permanence in a more spiritual adherence.

The mental chemicalization, which has brought conjugal infidelity to the surface, will assuredly throw off this evil, and marriage will become purer when the scum is gone.

Thou art right, immortal Shakespeare, — great poet of humanity: