personal freedom. Wherever the sexual relation is made a
convenience; or where either one marries in the face of his or her own
realization that there is no love bestowed, that relationship is
immoral. Thus, it will be seen that sexual immorality is independent
of marriage, and cannot be estimated by law. Marriage for money; for
position; for convenience; for anything other than a desire for mutual
helpfulness, is immoral. Indulgence in the sexual act for selfish
gratification without regard to the welfare of each other; for money;
or pastime; or for any motive other than a reverential expression of
an unselfish love, is immoral and is a prostitution of the divine
office of sex.

But, though not all sex relationships can be perfect and eternal, yet
all may, if we desire, be moral. And all moral and sexual
relationships must, and will, lead to perfect sex-union, whenever the
time comes that either one is ready for the completement. This truth
need not, and will not, disrupt any happy marriages.

If the Church had not made the mistake of teaching the fallacy that
sex-love is a strictly earthly or mortal function, divorcing Sex from
pure love; and if the Theology had not tried to substitute the love
of, and union with, an abstract Creator for love of mates in
soul-union, perhaps there would be exhibited less impatience of the
restraints of marriage.

But with a cat-and-dog married life on the one hand and the prospect
of an inane, blank, and sexless union with an abstract God-idea on the
other, it is small wonder that mortal consciousness has rebelled, and
has decided to take its chances with Hell, rather than to forego the
happiness which is intuitively sensed as being the direct prerogative
of perfect mating.

If this God-idea had not been presented as an eternal, unescapable
finality, there might have been hope; but to fly about a throne
endlessly, night and day, singing, "I want to be nothing; nothing;
only to lie at His feet"--the prospect appalls!

Small wonder that the conclusion has been deduced that "life is too
short" for anything like domestic misery, when domestic happiness is
the only happiness we know, and that is to cease at death!

But, if we take the truthful view of marriage and of heaven; if we
realize that mortal life is Experience; that as we learn by
experience, we acquire knowledge; as we accumulate knowledge, we begin
to glimpse wisdom; and that when we have sufficient Wisdom and
sufficient