![]() Where they held sway in mens minds the foundations of society were secure it could never suffer complete ruin. ![]() These truths gave to the union a dignity, a purity, and a sanctity hitherto undreamed of. It taught that marriage is sacred, God being the agent Who establishes and ratifies the union between husband and wife that the bond thus divinely blessed is indissoluble until death that the wife is no mere chattel, but a party to a contract between equals and that all sexual relations outside marriage, whether on the part of the husband or the wife, are grievously sinful. The religion of Christ had lifted family life onto a new plane. ![]() CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE AN HISTORICAL AND DOCTRINAL STUDY - GEORGE HAYWARD JOYCE - 1933 - INTRODUCTION - THE civilization of Christendom-the civilization of which we are the heirs-was founded on Christian Marriage. ![]()
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