Marriage
1923 The Northwestern Lutheran
Whom Shall I Marry?
Our characters are insensibly moulded by those with whom we pass our time. To none does this apply so much as to married people. Husbands and wives are continually doing either good or harm to one another's souls.
1923 The Northwestern Lutheran
The Treasure of Marriage
Marriage is a sacred rite, in that two people solemnly covenant before God and in His name to live in holy bonds of matrimonial relationship until death parts them. But back of marriage are the privileges and the functionings, the duties and the division of labor that involve a family, that normally requires children.
1922 Walter A. Maier Walther League Messenger
Home or Career?
Such homes will be founded, with the Savior's help, whenever there is that love and feeling of mutual esteem which is happy to begin wedded life humbly and with self-denial, and to count no interests on earth stronger than those which center about the family hearth.
1931 Carl Manthey-Zorn Northwestern Publishing House
Whereby Should a Christian Be Governed in Choosing a Spouse?
Not merely by love and attachment. Let men be guided by Proverbs 31:10-31, and women by Psalm 128.
1921 Carl Manthey-Zorn Concordia Publishing House
The Blessed Vocation of Motherhood
What a blessed thing to be a wife and mother! This is a vocation that is well-pleasing unto God, for God has instituted the estate of matrimony and ordained all that it comprises.