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Title: The Wedding Day
The Service--The Marriage Certificate--Words of Counsel

Editor: John Fletcher Hurst

Release Date: January 5, 2008 [eBook #24171]

Language: English

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THE WEDDING DAY.

The Service--The Marriage Certificate--Words of Counsel.

Edited by

JOHN F. HURST, D.D., LL.D.

Buffalo:
H. H. Otis.
1889.

Copyright, 1888, by
H. H. OTIS
Buffalo, N. Y.

CONTENTS

Page

FORM FOR THE SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY, 5

CERTIFICATE, 13

WITNESSES, 14

THE NEW HOME, 15

THE HOME ALTAR, 21

THE HOME BEAUTIFUL, 28

GOOD READING AT HOME, 32

FORBEARANCE, 37

THE YESTERDAYS OF HOME, 44

FORM FOR THE SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.

[THE PARTS IN BRACKETS THROUGHOUT MAY BE USED OR NOT, AT DISCRETION.]

_At the day and time appointed for the Solemnization of Matrimony, the
persons to be married--having been qualified according to law--standing
together, the Man on the right hand and the Woman on the left, the
Minister shall say:_

Dearly belov