CHAPTER VII.
MARRIAGE.
Whom 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.
WHEN our great Teacher came to him for baptism,
John was astounded. Reading his thoughts,
Jesus added: “Suffer it to be so now, for thus it
becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.” His concessions
to material methods were for the advancement of
spiritual good.
Marriage is the only legal and moral provision for generation among human kind. Until the spiritual Marriage arrangements. Creation is discerned, and the union of male and female apprehended as in the vision of the Apocalypse, — where its spiritual sense was revealed from Heaven, — this union should continue, under such moral regulations as will secure increasing virtue. Infidelity to the marriage covenant is the social scourge of all races, “the pestilence that walketh in darkness, . . . the destruction that wasteth at noonday.” The commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” is no less imperative than the other, “Thou shalt not kill.”
