Before the altar of our Lord we come together.We stand — hand in hand — and wish to hear the words which God would say. We wish for joy and life and happiness His voice we hear proclaim, “I will show you the most excellent way.”

The most excellent way is the way of love.Not a love of human urge and pleasure, But the love from God above.This is love, the love beyond all measure.

An individual may speak,with words of most convincing logic, with words of arguments persuasive, with words as honey sweetly dripping from the lips, but those wordswithout the love of God embodied are but clanging gongs and harsh disharmony.

In the marriage covenantthe most excellent way is the way of love. In your marriage covenantlet the words which are spoken be the words which are taken from the way of God’s …