Holy Matrimony, Its Duties and Dignity, As Set Forth by the English Church

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ROMANCE OF MARRIAGE. 19 and the glory which was round this earth in our childhood once more returns to gladden our hearts.1 But while the Church thus sanctions these dreams of earthly bliss, and recognizes the season of imagination and romance as having its fit time in which it is not abhorrent from her...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ROMANCE OF MARRIAGE. 19 and the glory which was round this earth in our childhood once more returns to gladden our hearts.1 But while the Church thus sanctions these dreams of earthly bliss, and recognizes the season of imagination and romance as having its fit time in which it is not abhorrent from her own life and kingdom of eternal reality, she yet remembers that they have but a shadowy and transient being, offering us no abiding rest, but soon necessarily to give place to the wintry clouds and storms of the world;J and therefore she hastens to tell of the sub- 1 My Beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my Love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig treeputle;h forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Arise, my Love, my fair one, and come away. Song ofSongs, ii, 10?13. - So Shakspeare?ever faithful to the truth of things? makes Romeo and Juliet find the perfect ideal of human life in wedlock; but an ideal which cannot but fade and pass away as soon as it has appeared. stance which casts these shadows, the original of which they are the fading though fair copies ? even ttie mjjtftiral union tfjat it f fcrttnirt Cljritft antr $)iS dfturdj?that so all Married Persons, holding fast to that as the pillar and ground of their own union, may find it unshaken amidst all the changes and trials under which mere human ties must soon give way. That it is an Ij0n0urafcIr and Jjoljj VSStntr is farther shown by the commendation of Saint Paul, and the higher and more marked commendation of our Lord when He attornrtt ana lirauiiCirt it v...