. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . PamiiyWorship. CORNER-STONES O strong, upwelling prayers of faith,From inmost founts of life ye start;The Spirits pulse, the vital breathOf soul and heart. The corner-stones of the family altar are love, order,mutual confidence, and personal responsibility. How manyfamily altars are broken and falling down for lack of thesestrong corners! Love for God, for each other, and forprayer are strangely missing. The children are allowedto
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . PamiiyWorship. CORNER-STONES O strong, upwelling prayers of faith,From inmost founts of life ye start;The Spirits pulse, the vital breathOf soul and heart. The corner-stones of the family altar are love, order,mutual confidence, and personal responsibility. How manyfamily altars are broken and falling down for lack of thesestrong corners! Love for God, for each other, and forprayer are strangely missing. The children are allowedto whisper, play, sit on the floor, lie on the couch, or lollabout as they please, and older ones come before God inthis sacred family gathering-place in any kind of slouchy,dirty dress, and with a restless air of nervous haste. Butlittle faith or confidence in God are manifested. Father andmother each doubt the piety of the other, and the childrendoubt the piety of both; and because of this strained feel-ing, and a desire to be through with worship as soon aspossible, the father takes upon himself all the burden ofthe family devotion, by reading a short psalm andmaking a pra
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