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Rh and if you love her, and desire to support her, well and good. But never marry her,"—Sylvanus Stall, D. D.

Let the warning therefore be plain. If you value your own or your future wife's happiness, never marry a weak, sickly girl. Such women have not the slightest right to marry. They become in every case a curse to themselves and to the man who marries them.

Marriage is first and foremost a physical union, and unless there is that stamina, that vigor in each which would indicate their ability to perform properly their part of the contract, they have not the slightest right to enter such a condition.

When this subject is broached many men will ask what is excess. How often can such indulgence be allowed and still keep within the bounds of temperance? No rule can be made for everyone. Each man must find out for himself, for what would be termed excessive in one case might be cosidered temperate in another.