CHAPTER III.

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.

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. · 第 3 / 32 章