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necessary to permanent felicity. Marriage is honorable. Marriage is
dishonorable. It is honorable when affinities wed minds, or minds are united
by affinities which never oppose each other. It is dishonorable when parties
wed upon any other principle. We see more unfortunate results from legalized
marriages, than we shall disclose. We see results which might have been
obviated, which never could have occurred, if the wisdom of nature had been
consulted and obeyed.
When persons are legalized together, bound as slaves are bound by law; when
the assistance of mutual feelings is disregarded in the new relation, and
covenants are made without attachments only
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as custom and selfishness ordain, it will never contribute to the enjoyment of
such persons. They are not married in a consistent sense. They are without the
union which constitutes real marriage in the sight of God; and the connection
formed upon such conditions, is no better than other connections, which bear
a more wretched name. The conditions are precisely similar, with the
exception that one has the approbation of custom and law, while the other has
not. We say, it has the approbation of law; but what law? A law of wrong, a
law of human folly, not a law of God. It has no sanction in nature, but its
binding force is repudiated by the wisdom of eternity. Covenants established
upon the eternal harmony of minds united can never be dissolved. They will
control the minds thus distinguished, when dust shall mingle with dust, and
tears shall flow no more. The minds which are wedded, because united, can
never be disunited; even the work of wisdom, which calls one and not the
other to this sphere, does not separate those whom God has joined together.
The circle of wisdom which unites the two, death has no power to disunite.
They are one in the affinity of their minds. This affinity is a law of God in
nature. This law of God in nature, nature has no power to violate or disturb.
Hence, the sorrowing spirit, in the loneliness of bereavement, is visited, is not
separated from the one to whom it was united for eternity. It cannot be alone.
Whatever grief or sorrow may be imposed by ignorance, no mind united to
another mind by the covenant of mutual resemblance the natural affinities of
corresponding conditions can ever be destroyed, because nature has not the
power to deny itself, and revoke what it has established by its own laws. The
eternity of the law which unites, can never disunite. As, therefore, the law of
God is eternal, so the union which
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the law communicates, can never be disturbed while that law remains. What
the law does is done by virtue of the law, and what is done by virtue of the
law, the law can never repudiate, as repudiation would be a denial of his work
and its wisdom.
This wisdom of God in nature, is lamentably overlooked in the arrangements,
which control matrimonial alliances. The minds of two discordant spirits must
inevitably invite misery, when legalized together. They are unlike. They
disagree. They wrong each other. They differ. They wrangle about the
difference. We see who is to blame. Minds make minds wretched. The
difference is the cause of all the wretchedness. Here lies the foe, the enemy
who is to blame, and to blame for the trouble produced. Who will not see what
will obviate this evil? Who will not rejoice when it is removed? Have we the
power to remove it? If we have not, do others possess the power? If they
possess the power, why do they not exercise it? Why do they not prevent the
unholy alliances which weave their wretchedness in the relation of husband
and wife? Husband and wife! Bitter mockery of both! There is no husband
and no wife in such covenants. They are null and void of all the essentials of
wisdom and happiness. They are mere covenants which brutes might make
brutes such as minds in worse than brutal ignorance only do make. They are
covenants which answer laws of men, but which violate all the laws which
control the peace and enjoyment of minds in the body. They are covenants
which selfish gratification of brutal appetite makes, and makes to wrong those
who make them.
There is no condition in which the human mind can be placed more
unenviable, than the wedded life of discordant spirits. They are legally in form
joined together, but what is joined without attractive
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forces, will separate by repulsive influences, unless restrained by the wisdom
of public disapprobation and shame. This voice may keep the form in respect,
and continue the wretchedness it would ameliorate. It would allay the
elements of social discord by strengthening the obligations to regard the
unholy alliance by contributing the bonds which make the subject more and
more wretched, by saving minds from public disapprobation, to make them
wrangle and disgrace themselves and others. We see whole families and
neighborhoods agitated with the evils of misguided minds, who have been
formally recognized as husband and wife, but who never, for one moment,
enjoyed the satisfaction of so sweet a union, so holy and happy life as Teal
affinities produce. There are very few real marriages among men and women.
There are very few who are husbands and wives, that have assumed to be such
in the sight of men. There are very few who live in harmony as harmony is
attainable, when minds unite by works of love and pure affection. Their
sympathies are estranged, their social feelings are unlike, their wants vary,
their circles of mind differ, their wisdom contradicts, their temper and habits
are discordant, and their wretchedness must be necessarily mutual.
Minds disturbed by either of the above mentioned causes are not joined
together in the sight of heaven. The parties are enemies to the extent of the
difference between them. They can not be friends when disturbance occasions
misery. They can not be united when the conflict answers conflict. They will
not work together as husband and wife should and will do, when united in a
circle of fidelity and: wisdom. They are more wretched in works than in
unmarried life a life which God disapproves, which can never make the
mind blessed as the union of congenial souls is able to do, which insults the
law of God in creation by refusing obedience
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to its requirements, and contradicts the wisdom of Him who made male and
female for the purpose of working out the counsels of his own will the
welfare of children whom he loves. Marriage is dishonored. It is dishonored
by married and unmarried. The vow is broken. The law is violated. The
covenant is disregarded. The union is not union. The union in form and
appearance is disunion and wrong. Have we no remedy? Shall the wrong be
continued? Who will rectify it? Who will change the conditions, and establish
rules which will remove the evil from earth! Have many who differ about
their differences ever contemplated the wisdom of circles where no discord
rules, where no wrangles are known, where no inharmonies prevail? Have
they ever contrasted their condition with the union which is enjoyed by spirits
of this circle of the second sphere? If not, we would say, compare, and receive
instruction. The wrangling alliances of many minds on earth are spectacles of
wrong which need a remedy. They need a reform. But to reform the wrong we [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]