From which division, from which company, from which flock shall I choose my friends?
'Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light with darkness ?' Especially careful should we be in that nearest and dearest of friendships, in the choice of the one who is to be to us our other self.
Would we be made one, would we link ourselves by that firm and sacred tie, whilst knowing all the time that the one who is to be dearer to us than life itself is outside the fold?
No blessing can surely rest on such a marriage.

Jesus cannot be an invited guest at that marriage feast.

For clear and unmistakable is the trumpet call of the great Captain of our salvation: 'Come out from among them, and be ye separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'.