Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-14
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THs iSsrIIUTIoN or MARRiAGE AVID
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of tho family. This relation grows out OF tho
existence al tho two sexes. When God
created man ho created him male and female
one oi tho purposes oi tho sexes is the prop
agntipn of tho race. Hence the command
given 20 our first parents, " Bo fruitful, and
multiply and roplonish the Garth y and as
this cumjnand was giyOn before the fall II
scts aside ut once tho notion that there In any.
thing uuholy In sexual intercourse In the
= marriage relation, and with this tho notion,
hello ~ times hy soue, that such intercourse
constituted tho sin oi tho fall. II also contra
diets the view entertained In the early
church, aud encouraged and supported by
tho requirement of celihacy on the part of the
priesthood and tho " religious I" In tho Ro
man Catholic church. that u celibate state IL
q state Of higher sarCtity than the married
state II man had not fallen the raco would
have pIopagatcd itself In the natural way
without ain, aud the transition Of those who
reached n fun maturity Of spiritual life to
higher state Of existence In tho spiritual
world, would havo bcn effected without
death 10y something, perhaps, like the trans.
lotion of FnOeh and Eliith.
And while On this point we may easily an
swer the position that death Is something
natural and Ia ful accord with the physical
nature of man, and that, therefore, death In
tho human world ~ not consequence of
sin, any moro uan IN tho animal world; for
geology proves that death prevailed In the
animal world before the fail. Hence II Is
said, when God pronounced tho sentence oil
death upon wHu Tor SIN, ho simply an
nouncod - natural law that would have pro
duced death even II mau had not fallen. In
answering this Wow, may allow that
death does. indeed, como by a law of nature,
but II mau had not iallen by sin, u higher
law uG - supernatural world, sacramentalIy
exhibited In the trUa ot life In Tho midst OF
the garden, would have prevailed over the
law OF nature, and glorihed tho natural body,
~ We have such giOrihcatinu even now In the
resurrectinn, though not because there II
anything In ceibtto li'0 In itself that OK
alts It apnEa marriaI lite, bHt because II IL
free irnm the cares aud trials OF married lie,
and MAY thor, iutO devote itSolf more unre.
seryediy tO arts Of charity, For, while We
say that tho devotion ct husband Ia wife or
wife tO husband u unseliish, In that the one
lives for the other, yet it carries In II limi-
tatiou also In that this very devotion To one
may sometimes stand in tho way of doing
good tn u.lers. Il u In this view, wo think,
that ~ Paul speaks OF celibate life in
troublous timos, and for those who wish to
devote their whole life to special work In the
church as preferable to married life.
ruE uESEENL ASp THE INDIVIDUAL IN
THE RELATION OF SEN.
la the animal world tho general relation OF
sex alone exists they live IN herds or docks.
In regard 10 tho sexual relation and sexual
intercourse the general prevails, though
there are exceptions, a. In the case OF birds,
for instance, that mate for season and
shadow forth all the personal devotion of
husband aud wife, but ~ a rulo the sexual
intercourse among animals is promiscuous
In the human sphere this general relation
OF the sexes has iorce also. one qualiHcatou
for marriage is an attraction towards the op.
ppslto sex ~ such. \ man or woman who
finds no attraction In the opposite sex ~
whole, who does not regard It with respect
In other words, what IL called a " man 'hater'
or " woman. hater,n lacks a necessary quail
ifcHtion Tor marriage, because in such a case
there IA no basis tor love towards an iBdivid-
uRl Of the opposite sex.
But because man has personality tho per
sOnai must assert ITSELF "a well az the gen
ersl, in marriage There must be personal
affinity. This asserts itself in its nature
form already IN that special sympathy or an
tipathy which OK ists between individuals of
opposite sexes. Perhaps If humanity were
absolutely perrert Oarh one would find his or
her mate aud no other would satisfy but
Nas the world iS constituted the choice Is not
absolutely confined to ono. There are cor
tain types that have an affinity tor each
other, and therefore, aud because OF the force
OF tho general affinity referred TO above,
there IL more than one that Will satisfy the
want but the one chosen must become all
in all to the one choosing. mans wife
must bo to him tho embodiment and repre-
ton never wanders to any other. Love for
one, then, IS prerequisite for marriage.
May II marriage then properly take place
where it Is not preceded by such lover In
the case of Isaac, which is only an example
of ofacustom that prevailed in the earlier ages
OF history, and still prevails among some
classes of people, hts father sent his aged SER
want To bring him wife, aud Rebecca ac-
cepted the choice, and they were married
without exercising their own choice or pref
erence. Yet their marriage wasa happy one.
Marriage thon may take place without such
personal love preceding the union, and If all
the conditions are present love may follow
the marriage but IN all such cases there Ia
more or less uncertainty, and 1t may be a
Perilous experiment.
MARRIAGE WITHOUT LOVE.
The question may hero be considered
whether marriage should be binding where
love does not exist, where II has ceased to
= exist after marriage This is the question
9 raised by the " free love" theory. Is not the
= union of man and woman immoral where
love has ceased? We might answer, yes,
and yet ii would not necessarily follow that
The marriage rotation should be dissolved !;
for another alternative would he u separation
"from bed ana board" and yet recognition
of the marriage relation. For as arule, such
cessation OF love after marriage is the result
of something wrong, something immoral, on
the part of ono or both the parties. because,
while love is something spontaneous, yet 1t
il under the regulation Of the Will also. The
shall cOnfine his or her peculiar affection To
the other and neither shnll allow this stiec-
ton to wander abroad. HOre the wrong be-
gins. It is an act OF uniaithfulness, and Just
as one party committing adultery and being
divorced therefore, is not allowed TO marry
another, so the penalty for this wrong in
ceasing to love OF living apart and not marry
ing again IL just We may, indeed, suppose
rare exceptions, where through wrong
choice or Tor some other cause, one party
cannot love the other, and now without a
preceding death.
The marriage relation has its natural basis
in the sexual instincts in our nature. This
natural impulse Is ethicised by love. 1t is
thus elevated above mere nature and becomes
a moral relation. For the sexual relation
pertains not merely to the physical nature OF
man, but reaches also to the mental and
moral nature. There Is a sex in mind as well
~ in the body, male intellect as well as 9
female intellect, and difference in the
, moral nature OF male and female Hence
marriage rises above the mere natural union
of man and woman, and simplites union
also of soul with soul. In this higher union
through love the one Compliments the other.
THE COMPLEMENTARY QUALITIES.
The essence of love consists in a spiritual
communion, In which the one loving give
himself, or herself, to tho one loved. In THU
spiritual union there is not only compile
mentstion, so that the peculiar qualities
al md nf tha ,ln