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
Religion
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
Family; Home; Marriage; Parent and child
FAMILY RELIGION.--The Christian Home Demands Family Religion. What is it?
Different from Personal Religion. Co-existent with. Home. Essential to its
Constitution. Its Historical Development from Eden to the Present Age. Its
Present Neglect. What it Includes. The Example of our Primitive Fathers.
The Forms in which it is Developed. The Home-Mission Demands it. Its
Necessity seen in the Value of the Soul. Home without it. Home with it.
Relations of Home Demand it. Reply to Excuses from it. Defect of it now.
Reasons for this. It is Implied in the Marriage Relation and Obligation.
Motives to Establish it.
CHAPTER IV.
THE RELATION OF HOME TO THE CHURCH.--It must be Churchly. This Relation is
Vital and Necessary, involving Mutual Dependence. Relation of Preparation.
Home Completes Itself in the Church. It has Power only in the Sphere of
the Church. This Relation involves Duties and Responsibilities.
CHAPTER V.
HOME-INFLUENCE.--Home has Power. This is either a Curse or a Blessing. What
is Home-Influence? Its Character. Its Degree Estimated from the Force of
First Impressions. Scripture Testimony to it. Its Legitimate Objects. How
it Acts in the Formation of Character. Augustine. Washington. John Q.
Adams. Bishop Hall. Dr. Doddridge. Dr. Cumming. A Mother Won to Christ by a
Daughter. Its Influence upon the State. Napoleon. Homes of the Revolution.
The Spartan Mother and Home. Its Influence upon the Church. Its
Responsibility Inferred.
CHAPTER VI.
HOME AS A STEWARDSHIP.--What is a Steward? Home is a Stewardship. Parents.
Home-Interests. Identity of Interest between the Master and Steward. Mother
of Moses. Character and Responsibilities of this Stewardship. The Social
Prostitution of Home. The Principle of Accountability this Stewardship
Involves. The Final Settlement.
CHAPTER VII.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHRISTIAN HOME.--These Inferred from Home-Influence
and Stewardship. Their Measure. By the Magnitude of Home-Interest. By the
Kind of Influence upon the Members. By the Guilt and Punishment of Parental
Unfaithfulness. They are Incentives to Parental Integrity. A Family Drama
in Two Acts. Filial Responsibility. Address to Parents and Children.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE FAMILY BIBLE.--The Memories which cluster around it. The Household
Interests it Contains. The Bible as a Family Record. As a Home-Inheritance.
As the Gift of a Mother's Love. An Indispensable Appendage to Home. Its
Adaptation to Home. It should be Used as the Text-Book of Home-Education.
Its Abuse and Neglect.
CHAPTER IX.
INFANCY.--New Eras in Family History. The First-Born. Charm and Interest of
Infancy. The Infant as a Member of Home. Its Emblematic Character. Its
Helplessness. Its Prophetical Character. The Trust and Responsibility
Involved. The Mother's Relation to Infancy. Address to Parents.
CHAPTER X.
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