Name: Searchlights on Health — First Love, Desertion and Divorce
Author: B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — First Love… (1919)

“ FIRST LOVE.—This is the most important direction of all. The first love experiences a tenderness, a purity and unreservedness, an exquisiteness, a devotedness, and a poetry belonging to no subsequent attachment. "Love, like life, has no second spring." Though a second attachment may be accompanied by high moral feeling, and to a devotedness to the object loved; yet, let love be checked or blighted in its first pure emotion, and the beauty of its spring is irrecoverably withered and lost. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — First Love… (1919)

“ DESERTION AND DIVORCE.—For a young man to court a young woman, and excite her love till her affections are riveted, and then (from sinister motives, such as, to marry one richer, or more handsome) , to leave her, and try elsewhere, is the very same crime as to divorce her from all that she holds dear on earth—to root up and pull out her imbedded affections, and to tear her from her rightful husband. First love is always constant. The second love brings uncertainty—too often desertions before marriage and divorces after marriage. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — First Love… (1919)

“ LEGAL MARRIAGE.—What would any woman give for merely a nominal or legal husband, just to live with and provide for her, but who entertained not one spark of love for her, or whose affections were bestowed upon another? ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — First Love… (1919)

“ How absurd, how preposterous the doctrine that the obligations of marriage derive their sacredness from legal enactments and injunctions! How it literally profanes this holy of holies, and drags down this heaven-born institution from its original, divine elevation, to the level of a merely human device. Who will dare to advocate the human institution of marriage without the warm heart of a devoted and loving companion! ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — First Love… (1919)

“ SECOND LOVE NOT CONSTANT.—But let this first love be broken off, and the flood-gates of passion are raised. Temptations now flow in upon him. He casts a lustful eye upon every passing female, and indulges unchaste imaginations and feelings. Although his conscientiousness or intellect may prevent actual indulgence, yet temptations now take effect, and render him liable to err; whereas before they had no power to awaken improper thoughts or feelings. Thus many young men find their ruin. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — First Love… (1919)

“ LEGISLATION.—But no human legislation can so guard this institution but that it may be broken in spirit, though, perhaps, acceded to in form; for, it is the heart which this institution requires. There must be true and devoted affection, or marriage is a farce and a failure. ”

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B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — First Love… (1919)

“ THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY AND THE LAW GOVERNING MARRIAGE are for the protection of the individual, yet a man and woman may be married by law and yet unmarried in spirit. The law may tie together, and no marriage be consummated. Marriage therefore is Divine, and "whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder." A right marriage means a right state of the heart. ”

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