Union of the masculine and feminine qualities consti-tutes completeness. The masculine mind reaches a 6Mental elementshigher tone through certain elements of the feminine, while the feminine mind gains cour-age and strength through masculine qualities. These 9different elements conjoin naturally with each other, and their true harmony is in spiritual oneness. Both sexes should be loving, pure, tender, and strong. The attrac-12tion between native qualities will be perpetual only as it is pure and true, bringing sweet seasons of renewal like the returning spring.

15    Beauty, wealth, or fame is incompetent to meet the demands of the affections, and should never weigh Affection’s demandsagainst the better claims of intellect, good-18ness, and virtue. Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to 21share it.

    Marriage is the legal and moral provision for genera-tion among human kind. Until the spiritual creation 9Marriage temporalis discerned intact, is apprehended and under-stood, and His kingdom is come as in the vision of the Apocalypse, — where the corporeal sense of crea-12tion 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, Fidelity required. . . the destruction that wasteth at noonday.” 18The commandment, “Thou shalt not com-mit adultery,” is no less imperative than the one, “Thou shalt not kill.”

    Marriage should signify a union of hearts. Further-18more, the time cometh of which Jesus spake, when he Progressive developmentdeclared that in the resurrection there should be no more marrying nor giving in marriage, 21but man would be as the angels. Then shall Soul re-joice in its own, in which passion has no part. Then white-robed purity will unite in one person masculine wis-24dom and feminine love, spiritual understanding and per-petual peace.

    Until it is learned that God is the Father of all, mar-27riage will continue. Let not mortals permit a disregard of law which might lead to a worse state of society than now exists. Honesty and virtue ensure the stability of 30the marriage covenant. Spirit will ultimately claim its own, — all that really is, — and the voices of physical sense will be forever hushed.

Matrimony should never be entered into without a full recognition of its enduring obligations on 3Differing dutiesboth sides. There should be the most tender solicitude for each other’s happiness, and mu-tual attention and approbation should wait on all the years 6of married life.

    Mutual compromises will often maintain a compact which might otherwise become unbearable. Man should 9not be required to participate in all the annoyances and cares of domestic economy, nor should woman be ex-pected to understand political economy. Fulfilling the 12different demands of their united spheres, their sympa-thies should blend in sweet confidence and cheer, each partner sustaining the other, — thus hallowing the union 15of interests and affections, in which the heart finds peace and home.

    Tender words and unselfish care in what promotes the 18welfare and happiness of your wife will prove more salutary Trysting renewedin prolonging her health and smiles than stolid indifference or jealousy. Husbands, hear this 21and remember how slight a word or deed may renew the old trysting-times.

    After marriage, it is too late to grumble over incompati-24bility of disposition. A mutual understanding should exist before this union and continue ever after, for decep-tion is fatal to happiness.

27    The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as its moral obligations are kept intact; but the frequency Permanent obligationof divorce shows that the sacredness of this re-30lationship is losing its influence, and that fatal mistakes are undermining its foundations. Separation never should take place, and it never would, if both 60 60:1husband and wife were genuine Christian Scientists. Science inevitably lifts one’s being higher in the scale of 3harmony and happiness.

    Marriage should improve the human species, becoming a barrier against vice, a protection to woman, strength to 18Centre for affectionsman, and a centre for the affections. This, however, in a majority of cases, is not its present tendency, and why? Because the education of 21the higher nature is neglected, and other considerations, — passion, frivolous amusements, personal adornment, display, and pride, — occupy thought.

21    Husbands and wives should never separate if there is no Christian demand for it. It is better to await the Patience is wisdomlogic of events than for a wife precipitately 24to leave her husband or for a husband to leave his wife. If one is better than the other, as must always be the case, the other pre-eminently needs good 27company.

The narrowness and jealousy, which would confine a wife or a husband forever within four walls, will 18not promote the sweet interchange of confidence and love; but on the other hand, a wandering desire for incessant amusement outside the home circle is a poor augury for 21the happiness of wedlock. Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the bound-ary, of the affections.

    If the foundations of human affection are consistent with progress, they will be strong and enduring. Divorces 9Righteous foundationsshould 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 12harmony, life should be more metaphysically regarded.

    The broadcast powers of evil so conspicuous to-day show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of 15Powerless promisesthe age, struggling against the advancing spiritual era. Beholding the world’s lack of Christianity and the powerlessness of vows to make home 18happy, the human mind will at length demand a higher affection.

27    Christian Science presents unfoldment, not accretion; it manifests no material growth from molecule to mind, God’s creation intactbut an impartation of the divine Mind to man 30and the universe. Proportionately as human generation ceases, the unbroken links of eternal, har-monious being will be spiritually discerned; and man, 69 69:1not of the earth earthly but coexistent with God, will appear. The scientific fact that man and the universe 3are evolved from Spirit, and so are spiritual, is as fixed in divine Science as is the proof that mortals gain the sense of health only as they lose the sense of sin and disease. 6Mortals can never understand God’s creation while believ-ing that man is a creator. God’s children already created will be cognized only as man finds the truth of being. 9Thus it is that the real, ideal man appears in proportion as the false and material disappears. No longer to marry or to be “given in marriage” neither closes man’s con-12tinuity nor his sense of increasing number in God’s in-finite plan. Spiritually to understand that there is but one creator, God, unfolds all creation, confirms the Scrip-15tures, brings the sweet assurance of no parting, no pain, and of man deathless and perfect and eternal.