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Updated: June 1, 2025
Few words were spoken during the burned breakfast at the parsonage, or the drive to Major Scott's, for deep emotion is ever silent. Yet not for them were the coy reserves often evinced by hearts on the verge of a life-union the faltering timidity which hesitates to lift the veil from feelings in whose light existence is thenceforth to pass.
A heart thirsting for that love, wanting which, marriage is but a dead corrupting body without the soul love, the true life-union, consisting of oneness of spirit, sympathy, thought, and will love which would have been the same had they lived twenty thousand miles apart, ay, had they never married at all, but waited until eternity united those whom no earthly destinies could altogether put asunder.
If he should kneel in pious prayer before the throne of grace, so he should humble himself before God at the life-union altar. There is no more serious step in life, none more important, and none that should be more religiously taken. In this view of the subject, what a sad picture does the world present! How trifling, giddy, thoughtless!
For then a marriage was deemed a life-union, for good or for evil, and was not lightly or inconsiderately entered into. The separation of the sexes in early youth, and especially at school, destroys or prevents in an eminent degree the restraining influences upon the actions of each other, and that tender desire for the society of each other, which grows from childhood's associations.
If I should induce a single young woman to look more reverently upon the life-union, to regard it in its moral and religious aspects, and determine to enter it under the sanctions of true religion, and demand a like state of mind in her companion, that they might live to be blessings to each other, I should feel richly remunerated for my labor.
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