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     Chapter 3

     Marriage

     What therefore God hath joined together,
     let not man put asunder.

     In the resurrection they neither marry,
     nor are given in marriage,
     but are as the angels of God in heaven.--Jesus.

   1      When our great Teacher came to him for baptism,
     John was astounded. Reading his thoughts, Jesus
   3  added: "Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us
     to fulfil all righteousness." Jesus' concessions (in certain
     cases) to material methods were for the advancement of
   6  spiritual good.
         Marriage is the legal and moral provision for genera-
     tion among human kind. Until the spiritual creation
   9  is discerned intact, is apprehended and under-

    Marriage
    temporal

     stood, and His kingdom is come as in the vision
     of the Apocalypse,--where the corporeal sense of crea-
  12  tion was cast out, and its spiritual sense was revealed from
     heaven,--marriage will continue, subject to such moral
     regulations as will secure increasing virtue.
  15      Infidelity to the marriage covenant is the social scourge
     of all races, "the pestilence that walketh in darkness,
     . . . the destruction that wasteth at noonday."

    Fidelity
    required

  18  The commandment, "Thou shalt not com-
     mit adultery," is no less imperative than the one, "Thou
     shalt not kill."


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