MARRIAGE SERVICE.

Marriage, simply as marriage, is not the means "for the procreation of

children," but for the humanization of the offspring procreated.

Therefore, in the Declaration at the beginning, after the words,

"procreation of children," I would insert, "and as the means of

securing to the children procreated enduring care, and that they may

be", &c.

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