It was about the year 1875 when Science and Health first crossed swords with free-love and the latter fell hors de combat. But the warfare was not ended; the book that cast the first stone is still at work deeply down in human consciousness, laying the axe at the root of error.
We have taken the precaution of writing briefly on the above topic, to show the relation of marriage to Christian Science. In the present or future some extra throe of error, ready for copyright, may conjure up a new-style conjugality, which, ad libitum, severs the marriage covenant, puts virtue in the shambles, and coolly notifies the public of broken vows. Springing up from the ashes of free-love, this nondescript phoenix, in the face and eyes of common law, common sense, and common honesty, may appear in the role of a superfine morality, but having no truth it will have no past, present or future.
It is seen already in Christian Science, that the gospel of marriage is not without the law, even the solemn vow of fidelity "until death do us part," and this verity in human economy can neither be obscured nor throttled. Until time matures human growth, marriage and progeny will remain regenerative — hence unprohibited in Christian Science. We look to future generations for ability to comply with absolute Science, when marriage shall be found the unity of eternal love. At present more spiritual conception and education of children will serve to illustrate the superiority of spiritual power over sensuous and usher in the dawn of God's creation, where they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels. To abolish marriage at this period and maintain morality and generation would put ingenuity to ludicrous shifts.
