it was not the law that tied her; she
said, "I will do it," and the law said, "So let it be!")--"sunder
the bond"; but I say to her, that her duty is to reflect, "Now
that I see my mistake, I will commence being true to myself; I
will become a true unit, strong and noble in myself; and if I can
never make our union a true one, I will work toward that good
result, I will live for this great work--for truth and all its
interests." Let me tell you, if she is not great enough to do
this, she is not great enough to enter into any union!

Look at those who believe in thus easily dissolving the marriage
obligation! In very many cases they can not be truly married, or
truly happy in this relation, because there is something
incompatible with it in their own natures. It is not always so;
but when one feels that it is a relation easily to be dissolved,
of course, incompatibility at once seems to arise in the other,
and every difficulty that occurs, instead of being overlooked, as
it ought to be, in a spirit of forgiveness, is magnified, and the
evil naturally increased. We purchase a house, the deed is put
into our hands, and we take possession. We feel at once that it
is really very convenient. It suits us, and we are surprised that
we like it so much better than we supposed. The secret is, that
it is our house, and until we are ready to part with it, we make
ourselves content with it as it is. We go to live in some country
town. At first we do not like it; it is not like the home we came
from; but soon we begin to be reconciled, and feel that, as Dr.
Holmes said of Boston, our town is the hub of the universe. So,
when we are content to allow our relations to remain as they are,
we adapt ourselves to them, and they adapt themselves to us, and
we constantly, unconsciously (because God made us so) work toward
the perfecting of all the interests arising from those
relations. But the moment we wish to sell a house, or remove from
a town, how many defects we discover! The place has not the same
appearance to us at all; we wish we could get out of it; we feel
all the time more and more dissatisfied. So, let any married
person take the idea that he may dissolve this relation, and
enter into a new one, and how many faults he may discover that
otherwise never