Pray for congenial partners in life

Pray for congenial partners in life. As a rule, we offer up prayers for all kinds of possible and impossible advantages—our daily bread, salvation, conversion, consolation, success in business, change in the weather, etc. No one thinks of praying for a good husband or a good wife and yet no duty comes more readily within the scope of a spirit guide than that of impressing people how to choose their friends and in no respect could such services be rendered with a greater certainty of good results than in the task of selecting and preparing for each other's society those who are most fitted to marry. It would be a work which our spirit friends would enter upon with more joy and thankfulness than any other task we could impose upon them. We talk of marriages being made in heaven but no marriage could be more truly made in heaven than one where the compatibility of the two partners for life had been previously ascertained and approved of by their spirit friends. We talk of the idea of fortune-hunting and matchmaking as being derogatory to the dignity of the sex but surely those who seek a fortune in a wife and are above the selfishness of desiring a fortune with a wife may be excused for asking aid from Him who made all men and women and who knows, better than we, which are suited for being life partners.