CHAPTER XXI._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.

THE CHOICE OF PURSUITS.--Duty of Preparation for some Useful Occupation.

This should be made in Childhood. The part Parents should take in this.

Duty of all Persons to engage in some Useful Pursuit shown from the

Relation of the Individual to the State, from the Possibility of Future

Misfortune, from the Excessive Prodigality of those who have been brought

up in Idleness. Law of the Athenians. What Parents should consider in their

selection of an Occupation for their Children. Injudicious Course of some

Parents. Fruits of Disobedience to the Law of Adaptation. Social Position.

Exigencies. But one Pursuit. Jack of All Trades. Loaferism. Fruits of

Indolence.

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 21 / 32 章