Courtship And Its Relevance

Part I of Essay
Married life now comes and ushers in its morning glory and they are happy as a happy pair can well be, for a while. But "life is real," and character is real and love is real. When life's reality comes they find things in each other's characters that perfectly startle them. ....

Part II of Essay
.... It was a vision of the heart and not a solemn reality. It was conducted by feeling and not by reason. It was managed as to be a perpetual pleasure and intoxicating delight and not a trying ordeal for the enduring realities of solid and stubborn life. It was a yielding up of everything and not a firm maintaining of everything that belongs to the man or woman. In almost every particular it was false and was followed by evil consequences. All similar courting is not good. They voluntarily blind themselves and then blind each other. They "go it bl ....