terest of the one not wishing to live the new way as it is for the one
desiring it. Patience must be used, and, above all, kindness and love.

"I am going to ask you now, Penloe," said Mrs. Herne, "to tell me from
your standpoint, what kind of unions would you consider the best ones?"

To Mrs. Herne's astonishment, Penloe replied: "All marriages are the
best ones; even where they are so unhappy as to separate the next day.
The two can only work out their unfoldment from the plane they are now
on, and not from any other plane or place."

"Yes," said Mrs. Herne, "but supposing I am living the old way, and
after hearing you explain the new way, I wish to live that way."

Penloe said: "That would show that you were tired of living on your old
plane, and you were now ready to leave a lower plane for the higher one.
But, supposing I had seen you a week before you were married to Charles
Herne, and explained to you the new way, do you think you would have
been ready to commence your married life by living the new way?"

Mrs. Herne laughed, and said: "I see it all now; I had to go through
this experience in marriage in order to be ready for the better way. But
are there not some who are ready to live the better way without having
any experience?"

"Yes," said Penloe, "because they were already on a higher plane.
Supposing I take a watch and explain its works to you and your husband;
after I get through, you understand all about its movements because you
were on the mechanical plane to receive the instruction, but your
husband does not, because he has not reached the mechanical plane to
receive it. So it is in regard to receiving ideas on any social, moral,
or spiritual plane."

"I understand it now," said Mrs. Herne, "for you have the faculty of
making any subject very clear; but I am going to push my question and
get you to describe the grades of the higher planes in marriage."

Penloe replied: "There are very, very few persons who are living the
pure life in marriage who have not reached that plane through
experience. Now, it is possible that of two who are about to be
married, one previous to that union may have reached the plane of purity
through experience; while the other, not having had any such experience,
and intending in the main to live purely under marriage, but for several
reasons desires to have some experience before living the pure life.

"Again, where the purpose of the union is to live the pure life, t