The Newtown bee., 1892-02-19
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 it's very nature, sacramental. It belongs to the natural estate of mankind by creation and is the foundation of human society. "Male and female created He them.n "Therefore shall d man leave his father and his mother and shall cleaye unto his wife; and they shall be one f1esh.''
 Human nature is one; but it is divided into two kinds, the masculine and the feminine. They are necessary and com plemental to each other as social, intelli- gent and moral beings, generally speak ing. It is not best for one to be alone in deeper sense than the matter of person. al happiness.
 The individual is most perfect as he fulfills all the relations of life in the family and in society. Marriage is the completion of our common humanity. Whatever, therefore, dishonors matri- mony degrades society.
 The family is the corner stone of Church and State. Emerson says: ssThe lover seeks in marriage his private fclici- tation and perfection, with no prospec- tive end; and Nature hides in his happi- ness her own end, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race"
 The sexual functions mean love, mar riage and offspring; and nothing but love, marriage and offspring can satisfy the sexual instinct. In the nature of the case, the sexual functions involve the whole being; and the right relation of the sexes is, therefore, a matter of the highest importance to personal health and social purity. Man and wife, offspring and a home, constitute the central group in the foreground of every picture of prosperity and happiness.
 ''Multiply and replenish the earth'' is the first command of God to man.
 The prophet Isaiah says: "The Lord formed the earth to be inhabited" It is always a calamity when young men and maidens cease to love and marry.
 It has always been deplored as a sign of social disorder and national decadence whenever statistics indicate falling of of the vital records of marriages and births.
 The nation or race or family which ceases to marry and give in marriage and does not raise up children and mag nifty the family and the home must soon give place and cease from the earth.
 Marriage is the safeguard of social purity and of every domestic virtue. St Paul says: "To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife and every woman have her own husband"
 AS rule, married people live longer and have a more cheerful courage and better health than the unmarried; and there is no doubt that the greatest hap pness of this life consists in the highest fultillment of all it's natural relations with the most sacred fidelity.
 But marriage is not simply for the in dividual, nor for the twain united. It is for society and for the race as well. Hence the relations of the sexes have always been subject to the control of the State and that under the sanction of the Church. The Holy Catholic church in all it's branches, Roman, Greek and Anglican, has always guarded marriage with the most jealous care, conserving it's sanctity, maintaining it's honor in the sight of the world and pronouncing the blessing of Heaven upon the holy fam fly.
 merely legal contract to live togeth- CT in wedlock, unsanctified by Holy Church, has never been regarded with much favor by any people in Christen- dom.
 Marriage is normal necessity which involves everything, family, friends, fortune, society at large, religion and the future of the human race.
 And because marriage involves every human interest, it should never ''be en- tered into unadvisedly or lightly but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, sober ly and in the fear of God"
 The family has right to know what sort of blood and brain and religion and fortune one proposes to unite with theirs by this vital relation, which may be such as to change every characteristic and condition of an honored ancestry. Friends and society and the Church may be deeply affected and have a right to be interested in the constitution and build ing up of a new family; for social rela- tiops are not mere outward conventional ites. Recognizing the importance of marriage, the State claims the right and duty to know who proposes to marry and when and where the parties are united.
 It is not mere matter of vulgar curi- osity which demands to know the facts concerning the conjugal relations of any family connected with the social and re- ligious life of the community. It is rather matter of morals, manners and the common decencies of civilized soci- ety.
 For the sake of our children, we have a right to know who lives in holy wed- lock, or otherwise, or to emphasize the doubt for the benefit of the unwary.
 Children, when you wed, honor your parents; let your friends rejoice with you; seek the blessing of Holy Church :; shun even the "appearance of evil,' which will be pretty sure to cling to you