. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . befull of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof The home of our children ought never to be a prison wherethere is plenty of rule and order, but no love and no should remember that he who makes a little child happierfor an hour is a fellow-worker with God. It was bitterly said of a certain Pharisaical household that init no one should please himself, neither should he please anyone else; for in either case he would be thought to be dis-pleasing God. This reminds us of the Scotchman who, havinggone back to his
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . befull of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof The home of our children ought never to be a prison wherethere is plenty of rule and order, but no love and no should remember that he who makes a little child happierfor an hour is a fellow-worker with God. It was bitterly said of a certain Pharisaical household that init no one should please himself, neither should he please anyone else; for in either case he would be thought to be dis-pleasing God. This reminds us of the Scotchman who, havinggone back to his country after a long absence, declared thatthe whole kingdom was on the road to perdition. People,he said, used to be reserved and solemn on the sabbath, butnow they look as happy on that day as on any other. It isa blessed thing for the rising generation that such grotesqueperversions of religion are seldom presented to them now ; forevery well-instructed Christian ought to be aware that religiondoes not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to CHAPTER XX. rOLITENESS AT HOME. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon these, in a greatmeasure, the laws depend. The law teaches us but here and there, nowand then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt ordebase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensibleoperation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole formand colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, theysupply laws, or they totally destroy them.—Bujh:
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