8.  TWO SOULS COME TOGETHER.—­When two souls come together, each seeking to magnify the other, each in subordinate sense worshiping the other, each help the other; the two flying together so that each wing-beat of the one helps each wing-beat of the other—­when two souls come together thus, they are lovers.  They who unitedly move themselves away from grossness and from earth, toward the throne of crystaline and the pavement golden, are, indeed, true lovers.

[Illustration:  LOVE MAKING IN THE EARLY COLONIAL DAYS.]

[Illustration:  CUPID’S CAPTURED VICTIM.]

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THE POWER AND PECULIARITIES OF LOVE.

LOVE IS A TONIC AND A REMEDY FOR DISEASE, MAKES PEOPLE LOOK YOUNGER,
CREATES INDUSTRY, ETC.

  “All thoughts, all passions, all desires. 
  Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
  Are ministers of Love,
  And feed his sacred flame.”

1.  It is a physiological fact long demonstrated that persons possessing a loving disposition borrow less of the cares of life, and also live much longer than persons with a strong, narrow and selfish nature.  Persons who love scenery, love domestic animals, show great attachment for all friends; love their home dearly and find interest and enchantment in almost everything have qualities of mind and heart which indicate good health and a happy disposition.

2.  Persons who love music and are constantly humming or whistling a tune, are persons that need not be feared, they are kind-hearted and with few exceptions possess a loving disposition.  Very few good musicians become criminals.

3.  Parents that cultivate a love among their children will find that the same feeling will soon be manifested in their children’s disposition.  Sunshine in the hearts of the parents will blossom in the lives of the children.  The parent who continually cherishes a feeling of dislike and rebellion in his soul, cultivating moral hatred against his fellow-man, will soon find the same things manifested by his son.  As the son resembles his father in looks so he will to a certain extent resemble him in character.  Love in the heart of the parent will beget kindness and affection in the heart of a child.  Continuous scolding and fretting in the home will soon make love a stranger.

4.  If you desire to cultivate love, create harmony in all your feelings and faculties.  Remember that all that is pure, holy and virtuous in love flows from the deepest fountain of the human soul.  Poison the fountain and you change virtue to vice, and happiness to misery.

5.  Love strengthens health, and disappointment cultivates disease.  A person in love will invariably enjoy the best of health.  Ninety-nine per cent. of our strong constitutioned men, now in physical ruin, have wrecked themselves on the breakers of an unnatural love.  Nothing but right love and a right marriage will restore them to health.