inwardness. Certainly Love is the only guide to whom he may safely
trust his redemption.

If a woman really sinks into the depths of degradation through what
appears to be love, it is because selfishness and vanity have
temporarily supplanted Love. But there is another side to the
question. Society has very erroneous ideas of success and failure; and
in looking at these opposite ends of the same pole, Society may be
standing on it's head.

A story illustrative of this inverted view of success is worth
repeating.

A young Englishman of aristocratic family, tired of the inanities of
social life, and denied the privilege of entering the commercial
world, emigrated to the South Seas. It was reported at home that he
had married a native Samoan woman and was living the simple life of
the Islanders. English society, when his name was mentioned at all,
spoke of him with hushed voices and with a "what a pity y' know"
manner as of one who had sunk below the depths of ordinary failure.
Subsequently a friend visited Samoa and found the young man enjoying
life and evidently supremely content. In the course of conversation
the visitor chanced to speak of a mutual friend who had been rather
wild in the days when they both knew him, and thinking to impart
agreeable news to the exile, the visitor eagerly assured him that "Sir
Arthur is respectably married and settled down now" whereupon the
self-constituted exile commiseratingly responded with: "what a pity;
and he was such a decent sort, too." So we may see that there is much
in the point of view.

Happiness is the final test of success or failure; and we may trust
this test, because no one can be happy in any other than the
progressive, upward-trending life. Dissipation has never been a
satisfactory substitute for happiness. Wealth is valueless to the
possessor if it shuts out love; and if love be present, wealth holds
but an inconsequential place.

However it be, the pathway of Love is long; and between the force of
attraction which unites two atoms in chemical affinity, and the union
of two perfected human beings, in whom Love and Wisdom are balanced,
there are many degrees of the manifestation of Love, and the question
inevitably arises "what shall we do with those marriages that are not
yet perfect?"

If, as here premised, there is in the entire universe but one mate for
each man and each woman; and if the union of perfect mates is the only
truly spiritual union; if this