Differences but Ministers of Love.

Another of the arguments commonly used against any relaxation of the marriage bond is the danger that a mere temporary quarrel or disagreement would lead both parties to a step which they would bitterly regret afterwards. Now, whilst it is, no doubt, true in many cases that differences "are but ministers of Love, and feed his sacred flame,"it is only where true affection exists; and we are dealing with cases where true love either sever did exist or is dead. As has been well said, "it is sorely a higher, a happier, a more desirable thing in a husband that he should cherish and please his wife for fear she should get rid of him than [unclear: th] should smother his ill-temper oravesion [unclear: be] he cannot getrid of her." If the [unclear: indissolu] marriage in many cases tends to repress [unclear: dis] ments, its dissolubility in more would prevent disagreements from arising, [unclear: and] make the union depend mainly on [unclear: whe] it sanctity—on mutual attraction and [unclear: ca] not on an external chain. Although [unclear: the] tion with which I am now dealing [unclear: mi] entitled to some weight if it were [unclear: prop] make marriage dissoluble at the [unclear: mere] the parties, it has no force at all when [unclear: th] posal is merely to make desertion [unclear: ext] over a period of years, habitual [unclear: cruelt] neglect, and habitual drunkenness [unclear: gro] divorce.