title: Tying the Knot Tighter: Because Marriage Lasts a Lifetime
author:  Martha Peace 
description: There are many uses--both personal and pastoral--for this practical little book. In the home, for example, it can be adapted easily for family worship. In the church it can serve as a useful resource for counseling, as a tool for a marriage retreat, and more. I value this book.<span><b>Don Whitney</b></span>
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  Is Marriage Holy?
  
  
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  # Is Marriage Holy?
  
  
  ### By Henry James
  
  
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  Etext by Ian Hillman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MARRIAGE, in its obvious import, is a civic tie, enforced, by the
  
  
  magistrate in the interest of public order. I, for example, A B, am a
  
  
  married man, entitled therefore to certain civic rights, such as the
  
  
  right to found a family, or call my children my own; and exposed, on
  
  
  the other hand, to certain civic pains, in case of my conjugal
  
  
  unworthiness, such as the breaking up of my family, or the separation
  
  
  of my wife and children from my care and authority, followed by the
  
  
  alienation of a portion of my worldly goods to their exclusive benefit.
  
  
  Now let us suppose for a moment that my conjugal peace has been
  
  
  interrupted, but on the other side of the house. That is to say,
  
  
  suppose that my wife, no matter how ins