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W. John Murray
\nThe Astor Lectures<\/span><\/a><\/span>
\nDivine Science Publishing Assoc.
\nNew York, 1917, 8th ed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThus at their shady lodge arrived, both stood,
\nBoth turned, and under op\u2019n sky ador\u2019d
\nThe God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven,
\nWhich they beheld; the moon\u2019s resplendent globe
\nAnd starry pole: \u2018Thou also mad\u2019st the night,
\nMaker Omnipotent, and thou the day,
\nWhich we in our appointed work employ\u2019d
\nHave finished, happy in our mutual help
\nAnd mutual love, the crown of all our bliss,
\nOrdain\u2019d by thee, and this delicious place,
\nFor us too large, where thy abundance wants
\nPartakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.
\nBut thou has promised from us two a race
\nTo fill the earth, who shall with us extol
\nThy goodness infinite, both when we wake,
\nAnd when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.\u2019
\nThis said unanimous, …into their inmost bower
\nHanded they went; and eased the putting off
\nThese troublesome disguises which we wear,
\nStraight side by side were laid; nor turned, I ween,
\nAdam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites
\nMysterious of connubial love refused;
\nWhatever hypocrites austerely talk
\nOf purity, and place, and innocence,
\nDefaming as impure what God declares
\nPure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
\nOur maker bids increase; who bids abstain
\nBut our destroyer, foe to God and man?
\nHail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source
\nOf human offspring, sole propriety
\nIn Paradise of all things common else.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
—Milton (Paradise Lost<\/span>, Bk. IV).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[206] On one occasion while Jesus was preaching the gospel in the temple at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the scribes, \u201csent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor. And they asked him, saying, \u2018Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly: Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?\u2019 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, \u2018Why tempt ye me? Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it?\u2019 They answered and said, \u2018Caesar\u2019s.\u2019 And he said unto them, \u2018Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar\u2019s and unto God the things which be God\u2019s.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Marriage is the superscription of Caesar written upon an ordinance of God. It partakes, therefore, of a dual nature. As an ordinance of God it represents the coalition of soul interests in [207] behalf of the welfare of the universe. As such it is the highest expression of love, for it is, as was the love of Dante for Beatrice, a phase of love so pure that the highest happiness it seeks is to serve the needs of its beloved. As a human ordinance, wedlock is the least understood institution of modern times; therefore it is undoubtedly the most desecrated of the ordinances sanctioned by man. In the present state of the world\u2019s spiritual ignorance it falls little short of being a labyrinth in whose intricate meanderings many brave explorers lose their way.<\/p>\n

Matrimony preceded man-made law, but by a strange perversion of justice, it has come to depend entirely upon these laws for its legitimate existence. Paul has said: \u201cAnd the commandment which was ordained unto life, I found to be unto death–for the law made nothing perfect.\u201d As a legal institution, marriage is an imperfect ordinance. Nevertheless it must continue to bear Caesar\u2019s superscription until such time as humanity no longer will need \u201ccorrosive laws\u201d and \u201cparchment bonds\u201d to support its tottering integrity. Through science, or suffering, humanity will eventually be delivered from the law, \u201cand will serve in newness of Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.\u201d But until the dawn of that long awaited day, marriage will be in subjection to human laws, for reasons which are so obvious that \u201csilence is more considerate than speech.\u201d The \u201claw is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly [208] and for sinners, but we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully, for what the law cannot do, in that it is weak\u201d we may do by the higher law of righteousness.<\/p>\n

The \u201cgraceful incapacity\u201d of the average girl welded to the \u201ccaprice of egotistical manhood\u201d seldom results in happiness, but as long as men and women are self-deluded into the belief that the law has a right to unite them, regardless of conflicting personalities, they are obliged to endow the law with sufficient power to annul their bonds, if it is necessary to their happiness. Indiscriminate marriages must breed divorces, the least vital of the promiscuous evils that spring from unwise marriages.<\/p>\n

The greatest calamity that follows in the train of an ill-assorted union is the misery into which the offspring of this alliance is mercilessly plunged. The child\u2019s misery is not mitigated by the fact that his birth was authorized by marriage, or legalized by creative instinct, nor does he care whether or not his parents are separated by a \u201clegal\u201d divorce or by the wanton desertion of one or the other parent. These victims are concerned with the fact that they are deprived of their divine rights by an indiscriminate law and that they have no redress. Children are the ones who should be authorized to compel all parents to provide for and maintain comfortably their unfortunate offspring.<\/p>\n

The marriage that God has sanctioned is the \u201cvowed transition of temporary into untiring [209] service and of fitful into eternal love.\u201d This is the spiritual union which does not need the seal of man\u2019s approval. Companionship is essential to happiness. Either sex is dependent upon the other for completion. Man\u2019s intellectuality needs the insight of woman\u2019s intuition to supply the wings for its upward flight above the shoals of spiritual barrenness into \u201cthe Truth in which all intellect finds rest\u201d; as Dante has said, \u201cintellect never appeases its longings until it is illumined by the Truth.\u201d Woman by reason of her intuition is nearer to the perception of Truth than man, but the latter by reason of the greater possibilities afforded him, is the average woman\u2019s superior, intellectually. The union of the noble intellect, with pure intuition, begets the blest existence that keeps \u201citself within the will divine,\u201d and,<\/p>\n

\u201cLove unfettered in this court sufficeth
\nTo follow the eternal Providence.\u201d<\/div>\n

Woman, who by nature is less independent than man, has urgent necessity of man\u2019s protection as well as of his gentle guidance. The highest form of companionship is found in marriage. In fact a happy union is a very splendid friendship which finds its fulfillment, as in the case of Boaz and Ruth, in a God-given conception<\/span> (Ruth 4:13) that gave to the world the great King David. As there is a celestial trinity there is also an earthly three in one, in the [210] union of wisdom and love which results in the expression of the fidelity and innocence found only in little children. It is in this gathering of \u201ctwo or three\u201d that Christ is found. This is the union that is blest by God, from which:<\/p>\n

\u201cBreathes forth a love that all the world
\nBelow is greedy to learn tidings of.\u201d<\/div>\n

Such a marriage may be likened to suns \u201cresolving in fluent and rebounding curves which only recede from each other in order to return again with renewed swiftness, and which together blend their rays into the glory of one double star.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the union that man may not put asunder. The magic wand that transforms marriage from a matter of convenience, to a divine institution, is the love that is faithful unto death in seeking its own in another\u2019s good; a love that nourishes itself by what it gives, and not by what it takes. But such a love is the fruit of the Spirit, which ripens in the union of mental and spiritual equals. It is never present at the \u201cwelding together of ephemeral sense attractions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wisdom of the response which Jesus made to the spies foiled the purpose of the chief priests and scribes, and so the Sadducees, who denied the possibility of the resurrection, went to him saying:<\/p>\n

[211] \u201cMaster, Moses wrote unto us, that if any man\u2019s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife and died without children. And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Neither can they die any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sadducees\u2019 question directly referred to marriage as the superscription of Caesar. The Master answered their question on its own basis, which was that of marriages such as constitute the majority of worldly unions, into which neither common sense nor wisdom–the foundation and corner-stone of every wise partnership–enter.<\/p>\n

The fact that Jesus did not marry does not constitute an argument against matrimony. He was a public man, without private interests. In the dedication of his life to the public welfare, he had consecrated his time to the salvation of [212] mankind. Not even Jesus could serve two masters; therefore, as was his custom, he sacrificed domestic happiness for the universal salvation of the multitudes. The Master never married, but by his unfeigned love for the sister of his friend, an affection characterized by the chastest purity, he demonstrated for others the possibility of the sublimely pure, ideal relationship, the best foundation upon which to build the true marriage. No child bore his name, and yet every flower-like face of childhood that, with upturned head gazed into the Master\u2019s kindly eyes, understood the magic of the universal Fatherhood which Jesus represented; and of which he assumed the universal responsibilities while yet denying himself its individual happiness. Churchianity, perhaps unconsciously, has hidden the humanity of Jesus in the traditional trappings of ecclesiastical mysticism, but the humanity of the Son of man \u201cbound up with love together in one volume, through the universe in leaves is scattered.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no excuse, and there should be no license for marriage until the contracting parties thoroughly understand and are willing and able to assume the mutual obligations growing out of the most sacred relationship in the universe. The time for men and women to analyze their capacity to love and to suffer for each other, is before marriage. For suffering is the price of love, and it is necessary to the purification of love. A mother\u2019s love is purified in the [213] furnace of afflictionbefore<\/span> she presses her babe to her breast. A wife\u2019s love, on the contrary, is purified after she has come into the possession of her heart\u2019s desire, but the true woman will not refuse to keep her compact simply because she has not been obliged to keep it in advance. If man takes his nuptial vows in jest, \u2018tis well that without end he should lament,<\/p>\n

\u201cWho for the love of things<\/span> that do not last,
\nEternally despoils himself of Love.\u201d<\/div>\n

Those who are not educated up to a high standard of love before marriage will find it difficult to rise to love\u2019s demands afterwards, and as long as society lionizes the licentiate, and weds virtue to vice, women will sow to the wind and their offspring will reap the whirlwind.<\/p>\n

The license that society has granted to the lover will be difficult for the wife to revoke. The most conspicuous cause for marital wrecks is that which is known as shattered moral obligations. Most of these disasters would be forestalled if the wife would substitute tact for spleen. No man will desert his wife for a lesser relation. Anyone who does is merely in the state of moral development where he passes for a man, and the wise wife will ignore the apparent disloyalty and thereby put it to an ignominious death. As long as society admits of sex in sin and establishes two paces for the children of men, the latter are to be pitied rather [214] than blamed for their wholesale disregard of moral decency. When women demand more of men before<\/span>marriage they will find less opportunity for complaint afterwards. In the present state of the world\u2019s spiritual development, both men and women are victims of false social systems whereby \u201cevery day the Christ is bought and sold.\u201d To marry under existing conditions demands abnormal mutual sacrifices on the part of both man and woman.<\/p>\n

The weakest link in a woman\u2019s chain of existence is her childish jealousy, and it is an element that must be ruled out of successful marriage compacts. In the home suspicion colors everything with the somber hue of its black shadow and closes the door on happiness. In the nation it is a breeder of warfare which is nothing short of wholesale slaughter, massacre and wanton rapine–legalized! Selfishness is at the root of all jealousy and the home is no place for selfishness. \u201cWoman is endowed by divinity to be the protecting genius of man\u2019s infancy, the charm of his youth, and the support and counsel of his maturity\u201d; by reason of this she is the route by which man finds his way to his own soul! Wives and mothers, rise and overthrow the demon of jealousy, and, profiting by the mistakes of past generations, meet the necessity of educating the fathers of the coming race morally and spiritually by the potency of Christly example. Raise the standard of virtue to accord with spiritual requirements, for in no other way [215] can your sons and daughters come into their rightful inheritance, which is to become the parents of the spiritually-minded.<\/p>\n

The union of virtue with vice would result in the transformation of vice, if<\/span> virtue were more wisely loving and less exacting. If love would magnify the God-given intelligence that is dormant in every living creature and minimize the ignorance that conceals it, it would make the crooked paths of superstition that \u201cpleasure lurks in sin\u201d straight. True Love would lift marriage from the mire of \u201clegalized lust,\u201d and enthrone it in the heaven of Purity. Such love would smooth the rough places of doubt that linger in man\u2019s mind concerning the spiritual status of feminine love, and man would be redeemed in spite of himself.<\/p>\n

All material institutions are erected upon a tottering foundation. Marriage as an exactment is no exception to the rule, for it is largely erected upon superstition and ignorance. The fanaticism that would feign to believe that it is within man\u2019s domain to unite that which God has not joined, vice and virtue, and the ignorance which supports this fallacy by mistaking codes, all too often devised by the worst passions of men for divine law, need to be educated out of themselves by women<\/span>. In the higher order of spiritual intelligence there will be no taxation without representation. It is the union of wisdom with omnipotent love which will open \u201cthoroughfares \u2018twixt heaven and earth,\u201d [216] and it will express itself in the diffusion of \u201cits virtue multiplied among the stars.\u201d Churchianity cannot take the place of Christianity, which is the incorporation of the Christ principle in our daily life. Church as an institution, \u201cstriving for appearances, doth make its own inventions\u201d–and the Evangel holds its peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne sayeth that the moon did backward turn
\nIn the Passion of Christ, and interpose herself
\nSo that the sunlight reached not down below;
\nFlorence has not so many Lapi and Bindi
\nAs fables such as these, that every year
\nAre shouted from the pulpit back and forth,
\nIn such wise that the lambs, who do not know,
\nCome back from pasture fed upon the wind;
\nAnd not to see the harm doth not excuse them.
\nChrist did not to his first disciples say,
\n\u2018Go forth, and to the world preach idle tales,\u2019
\nBut unto them a true foundation gave;
\n. . . . . . . . . .
\nNow men go forth with jests and drolleries
\nTo preach, and if but well the people laugh
\nThe hood puffs out, and nothing more is asked.
\nBut in the cowl there nestles such a bird,
\nThat, if the common people were to see it,
\nThey would perceive what pardons they confide in,
\nFor which so great on earth has grown the folly,
\nThat, without proof of any testimony
\nTo each indulgence they would flock together.\u201d<\/div>\n

[217] By these practices Churchianity becomes the most powerful and by no means the least harmful of the superstitions that shade enlightenment, and \u201cif the Intelligence that keeps the stars in motion is not maimed\u201d the coming centuries will displace Churchianity with Christianity. In the matter of marriage, church plays a baneful part in the superstition that it is possible by a Divine decree to join together that which Wisdom has left asunder. When the spirit of Christ takes the place of church in the union of spiritually enlightened souls, then and not till then in marriage will<\/p>\n

\u201cMany jewels be found so fair and precious
\nThey cannot be transplanted from the realm.\u201d<\/div>\n

But this can come about, as have all great reforms, only by individual enlightenment and the crucifixion of personal desires, on the white cross of universal need. By knowledge of his divine birthright man\u2019s confidence in his spiritual inheritance will dilate,<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the sun does the rose, when it becomes
\nAs far unfolded as it hath the power\u201d<\/div>\n

and \u201cin his eternity outside of time\u201d God will fill the measure with divine accomplishments. The immortal Poet beheld the Rose of Humanity in [218] Paradise, \u201cwhich under the rays of Christ is blossoming,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is the Rose, in which the Word Divine
\nBecomes incarnate; there the lilies are
\nBy whose perfume the good way was discovered.\u201d<\/div>\n

Every petal of this rose represents individual humanity resting in divine universality, individuality in union with universality. The humanity of mankind is the mirror in which the divinity of God is reflected, and God has joined the humanity of man to His own divinity \u201cby the sole act of His eternal love.\u201d That which God has joined Churchianity would put asunder, and that which God has not joined it would hold indissolubly together.<\/p>\n

The soul of every brute and every plant \u201cby its potential temperament attracts the ray and motion of the whole light of Divinity,\u201d and thus all creation is one in Christ Jesus. In the poetical comparison of the ivy and the oak, sight has been lost of the vine\u2019s suffocating embrace of the stalwart tree. If the clinging ivy is left to itself it causes the decay of the royal oak. In the application of this aspect of nature to marriage it suffices to say that mutual independence is necessary to the soul\u2019s spiritual development. Feminine despotism has no more place in marriage than has tyrannical autocracy or hypochondriacal affection. The \u201cTyranny of Tears,\u201d [219] is no more commendable than \u201cThe Tyranny of Threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

To paint a masterpiece the artist requires all the glaring colors spread on his palette. Even so marriage requires all the tints of love, but, like the colors on the palette, the vivid tints must be blended by wisdom and intelligence before the picture may be painted. When women learn to devote themselves to the soul interests of their husbands, they will rise above petty jealousies and meaningless trivialities and prove themselves helpmates of men. The home is a good man\u2019s blessed trinity, and therefore it needs must become a consecrated hermitage, \u201cwont to be dedicated to worship only,\u201d of the real, the good, and the true. Man does but need to apprehend the Truth in order to direct his feet toward it, and the good wife is his best spiritual guide into the paths of peace. By reason of his inherent divinity man is consecrated to the good.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Tis sin alone which doth disfranchise him
\nAnd render him unlike the Good Supreme.
\n. . . . . . . . . .
\nBut infinite Goodness hath such ample arms
\nThat it receives whatever turns to it.\u201d<\/div>\n

When a man\u2019s needs expand beyond the reach of his mother, he seeks a wife. The intuition of [220] the woman must divine that what the man needs is the unique combination of a wife and mother, or the wisdom of spiritual motherhood blended with the exalted love of rich womanhood. To meet his need, a wife must divest her mind of selfishness and use the same tact and gentle forbearance with her husband\u2019s idiosyncrasies that wisdom would suggest in the case of a sick child.<\/p>\n

The wife must always bear in mind that in the hand-to-hand struggle for existence a man\u2019s soul is exposed to the contagion of vice, while his heart is bared to the wounds of business corruption. A woman must distill from her own soul the anodyne, and form in her heart the spiritual ointment which is to heal the wounds of the man with whom she has cast her lot. And these remedies must be applied so gently that the patient will not be conscious of their application. The office of the wife is to be Mother, Instructor, and Soul Physician all in one, but God has graciously fitted her to fill this responsible post. It only requires that she rise to her divine calling. Children of God arise, and<\/p>\n

\u201cRun to the mountain to strip off the slough,
\nThat lets not God be manifest to you…
\nThe heavens are calling you, and wheel around you,
\nDisplaying to you their eternal beauties,
\nAnd still your eye is looking on the ground.\u201d<\/div>\n

[221] In marriage \u201cno sophist\u2019s subtlety would there find place\u201d if men and women realized the importance of honesty in their partnership, for any compact into which dishonesty enters is morally annulled. Marriage should illuminate love instead of concealing it, and it would if the same modesty and constancy characterized the more profound relationship that waits upon an ideal wooing. After marriage, both husband and wife should rise to the ideal standard that is required to establish a noble parentage in order that their progeny may not have reason to weep for their parents\u2019 crimes of omission or commission. The formation of a new race is requisite for the redemption of the world. Let the knowledge of this universal need penetrate the mind and heart of such men and women as contemplate the blending of their highest interests in a hallowed union, and these are they who will be prepared to assume and maintain their divine responsibility towards God and the universe, the propagation of a more spiritual race. Jesus turned the colorless water of personal existence into the rich wine of a spiritual unity. This is symbolic of the true marriage. In the presence of adversity it is well to remember that it is the rod of discipline that prepares humanity for the staff of spiritual comfort. Sorrow is the sepulchre of false trust and material hopes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho never ate his bread in sorrow
\nWho never spent the midnight oil
\nWeeping and waiting for the morrow
\nHe knows not you, you heavenly powers.\u201d<\/div>\n

[222] From the ashes of burned-out sorrow come forth divine enterprises which, by the spirit of God, have illuminated the world with the effulgence of their brightness. The resurrection was wrought in a tomb by a Man who would have been alone in the dark had not the spirit of God illuminated his sepulchre.<\/p>\n

Marriage is a trinity in unity ordained by God and it is the only legal institution that bears the seal of Divine approval. Hence in the holy state of the spiritual union of souls dedicated to the service of humanity,<\/p>\n

\u201cAll suspicion needs must be abandoned,
\nAll cowardice must needs be here extinct.\u201d<\/div>\n

Marriage is the sanctuary set apart for the propagation of gods through love, which is the vestment of spiritual union, and<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as the festivity of Paradise shall be,
\nSo long our love
\nShall radiate round about us
\nSuch a vesture.\u201d<\/div>\n

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