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Show Happy Marriages. If marriage meant the wedding of a saint and an angel, there would be no problems to solve, no perfection to attain, at-tain, no progress to make. This may be why there are no marriages in heaven. heav-en. On earth it is different: husband and wife are strongly human. No matter mat-ter how lovingly united or how' sweet their accord, they never have the same temperaments, tendencies or tastes. Their needs are different, their manner of looking at things is not identical, and in varying ways their individualities individuali-ties assert themselves. At any critical moment if both 'express at the same time a desire to defer to the other's taste, the result is foreordained for happiness. This makes matrimony not merely union, but unison and unityC The state of compromise does not mean a continuous performance in the way of self-surrender and self-sacrifice: it does not mean ceasing to be a voice and becoming an echo; It does not imply or justify the loss of indi-' viduality; it means simply the instructive instruc-tive recognition of the best was out of a difficulty, the quickest tacking to avoid a collision, the kindly "view of tolerance in the presence of weakness and errors of anotfier, the courage to meet an explanation half way, the generosity gen-erosity to be first to apologize for a dis- cord, the largeness of mind which does not fear a sacrifice of dignity in sur- 1 rendering In the interests of the high- ' est harmony of the two rather thaii the ! personal vanity of one. |