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Rh Experience should be the school of virtue, and human happiness should proceed from man's highest nature.

May Christ, Truth, be present at every bridal altar to turn the water into wine and to give to human life, an inspiration by which man's spiritual and eternal 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 its harmony, life should be more metaphysically regarded.

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 home happy, 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 man must find permanence and peace 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.