out in an individual path, has the strength of all who admire the bravery of the act.  Time is too precious to pattern; let each one seek to do his own peculiar work, for each soul has a separate mission upon earth, though we may all labor apparently in the same direction.  Of a thousand persons taking the same journey, each would see something which none other would.  Each soul we meet in life has a new voice, a new truth to utter, or a new method of presenting an already known truth to our minds.  Each arouses a new sentiment within us, touches some tender emotion delicately, while another grates on our senses like harsh music, until we go searching for harmony and rest and we find treasures of thought within us which we should never have known had we not thus been driven to the depths of our being.  All help us, then, to higher states; those who tranquilize us, and those who disharmonize us till we fain would withdraw to our soul’s innermost for peace.  We must look at life on the grandest scale, if we would find rest.  A limited vision gives us nought but atoms, fragments floating in seeming disorder; but the mountain view gives the spirit all the vales and hills, and shows them as parts of an extensive landscape, a complete and perfect whole.

“I think it will be a long time before I can see these things as you do,” remarked the pastor, after a long period of thought.  “I fear your radicalism on on this and some other questions, Mr. Wyman, will injure society, if broadly disseminated.”

“I do not think that you understand my views upon marriage, any more than you comprehend them on religious subjects.”

“I hear that you give the fullest license to men and women, to sever their bonds and unite themselves to others.”

“In one sense I do, sir; in another, nothing can be farther from me.  I boldly assert everywhere, that men and women should not live together in daily inharmony, and give birth to children to inherit and perpetuate their angularities and discordances.  You, yourself, if you spoke without prejudice and fear of the world, would say the same.”

“But ought they not to try to live in harmony?”

“Most surely; but what if they cannot; if the magnetic life is consumed?  If those whose union is so, merely in a legal sense, feel that in continuing that union they are daily losing life, power, and mental force, they should surely separate.  I had much rather see such bonds severed than to witness the soul-harrowing sight I do every day of my life-parties fearing public opinion, and dragging each other down, living false and licentious lives-”

“What, sir!  Licentious lives?”

“Certainly.  Licentiousness is not all outside of wedlock.  Every day and hour, children are being ushered into the world without love or true parentage-left in the hands of hired, and often vicious and ignorant servants, while those who should care for them, spend their time in folly and pleasure,—­children undesired, enfeebled mentally and physically, with no love-sphere to enfold them-offspring of legalized prostitution, nothing more nor less.”