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The Christian Home: As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc.Philips, Samuel

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The Christian Home: As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc.

Name: The Christian Home: As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc.
Author: Philips, Samuel

Philips, Samuel

Family; Home; Marriage; Parent and child

Any work which contributes to this end is worthy of our high regard and
subserves a noble purpose; for it is only when the details of home-life are
given to the public, that proper interest in them will be developed, and we
can hope for a better state of things in this first form of associated
life.

The following work is an humble contribution to this important cause. It is
intended to excite interest in the religious elements of family life, and
to show that the development of individual character and happiness in the
church and state, in time and in eternity, starts with, and depends upon,
home-training and nurture. The author, in presenting it to the public, is
fully conscious of its many palpable imperfections; yet, as it is his first
effort, and as it was prepared amid the multiplied perplexities and
interruptions of his professional life, he confidently expects that it will
be received with charitable consideration. It is now published as an
introduction to a work on the historical development of home, to which his
attention has for years been directed. If this unassuming volume should be
instrumental in the saving of one family from ruin, we shall feel ourself
fully compensated.

THE AUTHOR.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA., 1859.




CONTENTS.


PREFACE

CHAPTER I.

WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN HOME.--_Section I.: Home in the Sphere of
Nature._--The Power of Home-Association. Inadequate Ideas of Home. Home is
a Divine Institute. Its Highest Conception. Definition of Home. Its
Two-fold Aspect. As simply Physical. As purely Moral. Home in the Sphere of
Natural Affection. Home-Love. Home-Ties. The Angel-Spirit of Home. Our
Nature Demands Home. Home-Sickness. Conclusion.

_Section II.: Some in the Sphere of the Church_.--The Heathen Home.
Constituent Elements of the Christian Home. Marriage. Husband and Wife.
Parents and Children. Union of the Members of a Family. The Christian Home
must be Churchly. How we Abuse it. Examples of True Homes. Parental
Neglect. Address to Parents and Children. Home-Meetings and Greetings.


CHAPTER II.

THE MISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN HOME.--The Nature of this Mission. David.
Joshua. It is Two-fold. The Temporal Well-Being of the Members. How Parents
Abuse this part of the Home-Mission. The Eternal Well-Being of the Members.
Extent of the Home-Mission. Its Importance and Responsibility. Seen in the
Vicarious Character of Home. The Principle of Moral Reproduction. The
Visitation of Parental Iniquity upon the Children. The Guilt of
Unfaithfulness to this Mission. Qualifications for it. The Law of Equality
in Marriage. How Parents may Disqualify themselves for it. Incentives to
Faithfulness. Address to Parents.


CHAPTER III.

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