CHAPTER XVI

Marriage, the Home and the Family

Necessity of Marriage--Marriage, God-Ordained and

Sanctioned--Righteousness and Necessity of Marriage--Male and

Female Enter Heaven--Marriage to Replenish the Earth--Eternal

Marriage--Eternity of the Family Organization--Importance of

Marriage Within the Church--No Marriage in Heaven--Plural Marriage

Forbidden--Further Statement--Marriage and Large Families Desirable--Be

True to Your Wives and Children--Respect the Rights of Others--Mutual

Treatment of Husband, Wife and Children--We Should Be Examples to

Our Families--The Truest Greatness--Parents Responsible for their

Children--The Father, the Presiding Authority of the Family--Duties

of Fathers--Motherhood the Foundation of Home and Nation--Husband's

Success Dependent Upon Wife's Fitness--Duty of Parents--Watch Your

Children--Duty to Teach Children--What to Teach Your Children--What

Children Should Be Taught--Training of Children at Home and in

Sunday School--Teach Children the Gospel--Teach Children the

Story of Jesus' Death--Wise Giving to Children--Do Not Place

Children Under Pledges--Children Have Equal Rights with Elders in

the House of the Lord--Don't Mortgage Your Houses--No Substitute

for the Home--Worship in the Home--The Basis of a True Home--The

Ideal Home--Foundation of All Good in Home--Secure Homes--Own

Your Homes--Do Not Mortgage Your Homes--Evils of Mortgaging--Our

First Duty to Our Household--Unchastity, a Dominant Evil--Degrees

of Sexual Sin--Purity--Three Threatening Dangers--The Gospel the

Greatest Thing--Duty of Husband to Wife--Wives and Husbands in

Eternity--Importance of Filial Affection--Family Government by

Love--The Home and the Child

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