The nuptial vow should never be annulled so long as the morale of marriage is preserved. The frequency of divorce shows the imperative nature of this relationship to be losing ground, hence that some fundamental error is engrafted therein. What is this error? If the motives of human affection are right the affections are enduring and achieving. What God hath joined together man may not sunder.
Divorce and war should be exterminated, and on the principle of law and gospel, the maintenance of individual rights, the justice of civil codes, and the power of Truth uplifting the motives of men. Two commandments of the Hebrew Decalogue, namely, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Thou shalt not kill," obeyed, will eliminate those two flagrant evils. On what hath not a "Thus saith the Lord" I am as silent as the dumb centuries without a living Divina.
This time-world flutters in my thought as an unreal shadow, and I can only solace the sore ills of mankind by a lively battle with "the world, the flesh and the devil," in which Love is the liberator and gives man the victory over himself. Truth canonized by life and love lays the axe at the root of all evil, and lifts the curtain on the Science of being, the Science of wedlock, of living and of loving—and ascends the scale of life harmoniously. Look high enough and you see the heart of humanity warming and winning. Look long enough and you see male and female one—sex or gender eliminated — and the name man meaning woman as well, and the universe, all included in one infinite Mind and reflected in the intelligent compound idea, image or likeness called man, showing forth the infinite divine Principle, Love, called God, wedded to the Lamb—pledged to innocence, purity, perfection. Then shall humanity have learned that "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: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God." Luke, 20: 35, 36. This, therefore, was Christ's plan of salvation from divorce.
