PERILOUS ALLIANCES.
Ah, me, how many a young man is ruined by perilous alliances! For money, for business, or for social position they are wedded to the ungodly. Some of you sell your daughters to the devil that you may make a respectable match, when you know that this unequal yoking is forbidden by Gospel precept. I am ashamed of Christian people who lend their countenance to this breach of the Lord’s commandment. In this world there is a blight on such unions, and in the world to come—well, over that you would wish to draw the veil.—C. H. Spurgeon.