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There is something very sacred and almost awe inspiring in the act by which a wife, at her entrance into the marriage state, confides all the interest of her life to the hands of him whom she accepts as her husband. She leaves father and mother and the home of her childhood. She severs all the ties that bound her to her old life. She gives up the friends and the friendships of her youth. She cuts herself off from the sources of happiness to which she has been accustomed to turn. She looks up into the face of him who has asked her to be his wife, and with trembling heart yet with quiet confidence she entrust to him and to his keeping all the sacred interests of her life. It is a holy trust which he receives when she thus commits herself to his hands. It is the lifelong happiness of a tender human heart capable of ineffable joy or unmeasured misery. It is the whole future well being of a life which may be fashioned into the image of Christ or marred and its beauty shattered for ever.
“I wonder did you ever count
The value of one human fate,
Or scan the infinite amount
Of one heart’s treasures, and the weight
Of life’s one venture, and the whole
Concentrate purpose of a soul?”
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