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Article ON CONJUGAL INFIDELITY. ← Page 3 of 3
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On Conjugal Infidelity.
The happiness of marriage must depend on love , and this is much more delicate than common friendship ; the merit , the claim to it , is not to have offended ; for to be truly forgiven is impossible .. They may be content with one another who have had this . cause of disagreement , and friends , by intercession , or necessity of circumstances , may keep them together ; but content and living in one
house do not amount to marriage . He who has given oilence this way may do it again ; there is reason to believe he wdio never did it never will ; and there is no true confidence but that which springs from having no sin on remembrance . I know this doctrine of a husband ' s chastity will sound strangely in the present agefor truth must do so to the ear of errorbut it is not
, , less true . Men are familiarized to it by example , and induced by public invitation . There is scarce a family where the prostitution is not committed , or a newspaper which does not invite men to it , under all the false allurements of a vitiated sense , and promises of false security . " Gentlemen , come on , " this is their common language , " beauty was made for you , and variety is pleasure ! What do you
" want ? Of what are you afraid ? The prostitute advertises her " beauty in a copy of verses , and the green . lamp in the passage " offers 5 ou security ; nay , if you neglect this , the doctor , in the " next paragraph , promises a speedy cure , and your wife shall not " know it . " Vain and ridiculous man ! If you suppose the advantages are all your own ; read farther , convenient lod gings are offered
to your wife ; or if your daughter boggles at consequences , she reads where she-ma }? lie-in privately . The government should interfere in this . It may be that some path to . the poor folly should be open ; but posts should not be set at every corner to direct men to it . Half the ill they commit is forced upon them ; and , perhaps , the wildest young man of the present age would have made an honourable member of the state , if those who lived upon his vices had not Jed him into them .
These open invitations should not be permitted . We are a Christian if we are a free people ; and that restraint which is not withheld in one place , should no more be omitted in another . If a man , for bread , prints an indecent word about the state , he is arraigned ; and the spttnge , liberty of the press , shrinks as it is squeezed by the hard hand of justice . Why should those laws which hold government sacred , pay less regard to religion ? Or why should not our rulers shew as much respect to the morals as the alien-iance of the people . K . L .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Conjugal Infidelity.
The happiness of marriage must depend on love , and this is much more delicate than common friendship ; the merit , the claim to it , is not to have offended ; for to be truly forgiven is impossible .. They may be content with one another who have had this . cause of disagreement , and friends , by intercession , or necessity of circumstances , may keep them together ; but content and living in one
house do not amount to marriage . He who has given oilence this way may do it again ; there is reason to believe he wdio never did it never will ; and there is no true confidence but that which springs from having no sin on remembrance . I know this doctrine of a husband ' s chastity will sound strangely in the present agefor truth must do so to the ear of errorbut it is not
, , less true . Men are familiarized to it by example , and induced by public invitation . There is scarce a family where the prostitution is not committed , or a newspaper which does not invite men to it , under all the false allurements of a vitiated sense , and promises of false security . " Gentlemen , come on , " this is their common language , " beauty was made for you , and variety is pleasure ! What do you
" want ? Of what are you afraid ? The prostitute advertises her " beauty in a copy of verses , and the green . lamp in the passage " offers 5 ou security ; nay , if you neglect this , the doctor , in the " next paragraph , promises a speedy cure , and your wife shall not " know it . " Vain and ridiculous man ! If you suppose the advantages are all your own ; read farther , convenient lod gings are offered
to your wife ; or if your daughter boggles at consequences , she reads where she-ma }? lie-in privately . The government should interfere in this . It may be that some path to . the poor folly should be open ; but posts should not be set at every corner to direct men to it . Half the ill they commit is forced upon them ; and , perhaps , the wildest young man of the present age would have made an honourable member of the state , if those who lived upon his vices had not Jed him into them .
These open invitations should not be permitted . We are a Christian if we are a free people ; and that restraint which is not withheld in one place , should no more be omitted in another . If a man , for bread , prints an indecent word about the state , he is arraigned ; and the spttnge , liberty of the press , shrinks as it is squeezed by the hard hand of justice . Why should those laws which hold government sacred , pay less regard to religion ? Or why should not our rulers shew as much respect to the morals as the alien-iance of the people . K . L .