tely and
temperately unite for offspring. The sexual relation has this chief
and controlling purpose. The law of nature is intercourse for
reproduction. Under the Christian law, marriage is the symbol of the
union of Christ with the Church; husband and wife are one in the Lord;
they are to live in marriage chastity, not in lust and uncleanness;
and there cannot be a more hideous violation of Christian morals than
for a husband to vent his sensuality upon a feeble wife; against her
wishes and when she has no desire for offspring and no power to give
them the healthy constitutions and maternal care which is their right.

The law of Christian morality is very clear. It is the sexual union
first and chiefly for its principal object. It is for the husband to
refrain from it whenever it is not desired; whenever it would be
hurtful to either; whenever it would be a waste of life; whenever it
would injure mother or child, as during pregnancy and lactation.

A MAN WHO TRULY LOVES A WOMAN

must respect and reverence her, and cannot make her the victim of his
inordinate and unbridled, selfish and sensual nature. He will be ever,
from the first moment of joyful possession to the last of his life,
tender, delicate, considerate, deferent, yielding to her slightest
wishes in the domain of love, and never encroaching, never trespassing
upon, never victimizing the wife of his bosom and the mother of his
babes. We have romance before marriage, we want more chivalry in
marriage.

This is not the world's morality, yet it seems to one the world must
respect it. This, high and pure Christian morality is not always
enforced by Christian ministers, some of whom yield too much to human
sensuality and depravity, instead of maintaining the higher law of
Christian purity, which is but nature restored or freed from its
stains of sin. The world requires that unmarried women should be
chaste, while it gives almost unbridled license to men. A girl
detected in amours is disgraced and often made an outcast. In young
men such irregularities are freely tolerated. They are "a little
wild"; they "sow their wild oats"; but open profligacy, the seduction
of innocence, the ruin of poor girls, adultery, harlotry and its
diseases do not hinder men from marrying, nor from requiring that
those they marry should have spotless reputations. It is not for a
moment permitted that women in these matters should behave like men,
and a pure girl