SECUNDUM NATUREM

Halcyon Sanatorium

W. H. DOWER, M. D.

Halcyon, California,

Oct 25th.

1912

Dear John and Agnes -Comrades:-

To you both I turn in the spirit of confidence and love to tell
you of the marriage union soon to be consummated between Mrs. Kent and
myself. This will take place we think on the 20th this month and we will
probably go to Monterey for the event, and have a merely civil marriage.

We take this step together because of the deep love we hold one for the
other and likewise because we feel it is right and for the benefit of
the work -squaring up the foundations and our positions so that there
will be the minimum presented for the disintegrator to attack. I feel
that outside of all personal considerations great good can come to
the Temple through this union - for it is a union of forces in service
to the Cause. Yet there may be disintegration also in evidence if
this step is not taken right because of my position in the work.

B.S. has been told of this and my reasons given her interiorly and exter-
iorly, but she is opposed to the step and says it means an impossibility
of going on with the work, that it makes a separation between her and me
I have told her that it does not make and cannot make any separation
in the work, as our work is one Lodge and universal plan and beyond any
personality if it is true. Let me say right here, that B.S. has always
and held the personal attitude which I have always repudiated, and
maintained that practically all the trouble in the Temple has come from
B.S. holding personally onto me, from which I have suffered in innumerable
innumerable ways. In other words I looked only for the Great Lodge
in this work.