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MARRIAGE.

[The Minister commences by giving some instruction concerning Marriage. The following may be used.]

We are now assembled for the purpose of consecrating by religious service the marriage covenant between

and

JESUS said, He who made them at the beginning, made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shal! cleave to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

The marriage of one man with one woman is therefore designed in our very creation by him who made us. The love, which brings them together and binds them together, flows into their minds from the Divine Love, from the love which has operated hitherto, and which now operates, in creating and forming a heaven of human beings. In its origin, conjugial love is the union of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom,-the union of the Divine and the Human. In its operation, it not only produces men, but it produces every thing human in men. It prepares them for the reception of love and wisdom from the Lord. It unites goodness and truth in their minds. It thus causes them to acknowledge the Lord as the only source of Love and Wisdom, and prepares them to live in the celestial marriage union with him for ever.

And since love truly conjugial is derived from the union of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and since it corresponds to and leads to the marriage of the Lord and the church, it is evident that marriage is a most sacred institution. It is the means of the most important use in the divine kingdom of uses. It is the recipient, the image and the fountain, of every blessing in earth and in heaven.

But in order that our natural views and feelings, in marriage and concerning marriage, may be converted into spiritual, we must regard it as a Divine Ordinance; we must regard the Lord himself as present in it; and we must fulfil its duties in love to him, and in obedience to his commandments. And therefore, in order that he may, now by his presence and benediction, consecrate the work of his own hands, let us in spirit and in truth look unto him for a blessing.

[Then shall be repeated the Lord's Prayer.]

OUR FATHER Who art in the heavens; Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so also upon the earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

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[When the consent of the parties has been given, the Minister shall ask them:]

Do you now, in the presence of Him who hath all power in heaven and upon earth, and in the presence of these witnesses, declare your intention, faithfully to perform all your duties to each other in the marriage covenant, according to the laws of God?

Answer, each :—I do.

[When a ring is used, the Minister shall say :]

This Ring is given and received, in token that ye are now Husband and Wife.

[Then the Minister shall make the following declaration.]

Forasmuch as

and

have

entered into the Marriage Covenant, and have mutually promised to perform their duties to each other in this relation, I therefore pronounce them to be Husband and Wife.

[Then a portion of the Word may be sung, if convenient.]

BENEDICTION.

THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. AMEN.

FUNERAL SERVICE.

[The Minister commences by reading some of the following passages from the Word.]

O JEHOVAH! make me to know mine end,

And the measure of my days, what it is:
That I may know how frail I am.

Behold! thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;
And mine age is as nothing before thee:

Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain show:

Surely they are disquieted in vain :

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

LORD! thou hast been our dwelling place, In generation and generation.

Before the mountains were brought forth,

Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art GOD.
Thou turnest man to destruction;

And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight

Are but as yesterday when it is past,

And as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood;

They are as a sleep:

In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;

In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

So teach us to number our days,

That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

LIKE as a father pitieth his children, SO JEHOVAH pitieth them that fear him. For He knoweth our frame;

He remembereth that we are dust.

As for man, his days are as grass:

As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;

And the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the mercy of JEHOVAH is from everlasting to ever-
lasting upon them that fear him,

And his righteousness unto children's children;
To such as keep his covenant,

And to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the Gon of Isaac, and the GoD of Jacob. For he is not a GOD of the dead, but of the living: for to him all are living.

JESUS said, I am the Resurrection, and the Life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

AND seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of GOD: and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for

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