They marry young, and before either is disciplined by right principle, or regenerated by Divine truth.
Now, this being the case, do you suppose that, in the beginning, their pulses will beat in perfect harmony?
That there will be no jarring in the machinery of their lives ?" Mrs.De Lisle paused, but received no answer.
"In just the degree," she continued, "that each is selfish, and fails to repress that selfishness, will the other suffer pain or feel repulsion?
And they will not come into the true accordance of their lives until both are purified through a denial of self, and an elevation of the spiritual above the natural.

For it is in the spiritual plane where true marriages take place; and only with those who are regenerated.

All that goes before is preparation." Mrs.Dexter continued looking earnestly into the face of Mrs.De Lisle.
"Does your thought follow me ?" asked the latter.
"Yes," was all the answer.
"If true marriages are for eternity, each of the partners must be born into spiritual life; and that birth is always with pain.

The husband, instead of being a mere natural and selfish man, must be a lover of higher and purer things.

He must be a seeker after Divine intelligence, that he may be lifted with wisdom coming from the infinite Source of wisdom.