TWO TOGETHER Have you not seen from some vantage point the confluence of two great rivers? And have you remarked how one, like the rapid flowing Blue Nile, carries with it even to the delta far away much of the rich and muddy soil from the country through which it passes? Beside it moves the slower river from the plains, the White Nile, clear by comparison. Once joined together these two great rivers are distinguishable for miles as they flow side by side in the same river bed. They are separate yet united. So, too, when two separate yet loving hearts begin to live their lives together they may for some time go side by side, like two merged streams not fully united, yet the longer they stay together the more they have in common, continually losing some of their identity until they become as one. Each becomes an inseparable part of the other -- as they become a family. Two people, husband and wife, may, like a river, later separate but the whole is diminished thereby and part of one goes with part of the other. Paul S. McElroy