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Permanent obligation

The nuptial vow should never be annulled, so long as its moral obligations are kept intact; but the frequency of divorce shows that the sacredness of this re- lationship is losing its influence, and that fatal mistakes are undermining its foundations. Separation never should take place, and it never would, if both

husband and wife were genuine Christian Scientists. Science inevitably lifts one's being higher in the scale of harmony and happiness.