The Power of Home-Association. Inadequate Ideas of
Home. Home is a Divine Institute. Its Highest Conception. Definition
of Home. Its Two-fold Aspect. As simply Physical. As
purely Moral. Home in the Sphere of Natural Affection.
Home-Love. Home-Ties. The Angel-Spirit of Home. Our Nature Demands
Home. Home-Sickness. Conclusion.
The Heathen Home.
Constituent Elements of the Christian Home. Marriage. Husband
and Wife. Parents and Children. Union of the Members of a Family.
The Christian Home must be Churchly. How we Abuse it.
Examples of True Homes. Parental Neglect. Address to Parents
and Children. Home-Meetings and Greetings.
The Nature of this Mission.
David. Joshua. It is Two-fold. The Temporal Well-Being
of the Members. How Parents Abuse this part of the Home-Mission.
The Eternal Well-Being of the Members. Extent of the
Home-Mission. Its Importance and Responsibility. Seen in the
Vicarious Character of Home. The Principle of Moral Reproduction.
The Visitation of Parental Iniquity upon the Children. The
Guilt of Unfaithfulness to this Mission. Qualifications for it. The
Law of Equality in Marriage. How Parents may Disqualify themselves
for it. Incentives to Faithfulness. Address to Parents.
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.
It must be Churchly.
This Relation is Vital and Necessary, involving Mutual Dependence.
Relation of Preparation. Home Completes Itself in the
Church. It has Power only in the Sphere of the Church. This
Relation involves Duties and Responsibilities.
Home has Power. This is either a Curse or a
Blessing. What is Home-Influence? Its Character. Its Degree
Estimated from the Force of First Impressions. Scripture Testimony
to it. Its Legitimate Objects. How it Acts in the Formation
of Character. Augustine. Washington. John Q. Adams.
Bishop Hall. Dr. Doddridge. Dr. Cumming. A Mother Won to
Christ by a Daughter. Its Influence upon the State. Napoleon.
Homes of the Revolution. The Spartan Mother and Home. Its
Influence upon the Church. Its Responsibility Inferred.
What is a Steward? Home is a Stewardship.
Parents. Home-Interests. Identity of Interest between
the Master and Steward. Mother of Moses. Character and Responsibilities
of this Stewardship. The Social Prostitution of
Home. The Principle of Accountability this Stewardship Involves.
The Final Settlement.
These Inferred
from Home-Influence and Stewardship. Their Measure. By the
Magnitude of Home-Interest. By the Kind of Influence upon the
Members. By the Guilt and Punishment of Parental Unfaithfulness.
They are Incentives to Parental Integrity. A Family Drama
in Two Acts. Filial Responsibility. Address to Parents and
Children.
The Memories which cluster around it. The
Household Interests it Contains. The Bible as a Family Record.
As a Home-Inheritance. As the Gift of a Mother's Love. An Indispensable
Appendage to Home. Its Adaptation to Home. It
should be Used as the Text-Book of Home-Education. Its Abuse
and Neglect.
New Eras in Family History. The First-Born. Charm
and Interest of Infancy. The Infant as a Member of Home. Its
Emblematic Character. Its Helplessness. Its Prophetical Character.
The Trust and Responsibility Involved. The Mother's Relation
to Infancy. Address to Parents.
The Hebrew Mother and her Child. Reasons
for Dedication. Dedication of Children. Abraham. Offering of
Isaac. Little Samuel. David. Typical Character of Old Testament
Family Offerings. Benefits of Home-Dedication. Duty of
Parents to Devote their Sons to the Ministry. The Unfaithfulness
of Parents to this duty.
The Baptismal Altar. It is the Sacrament
of Home-Dedication. Infants are its True Subjects. Home Demands
it. Infant Baptism Proven, by the Child's Need of Salvation,
by the Idea and Mission of Christ, by the Idea of the Church,
by the Hereditary Character of Sin, by the Relation of Christian Parents to
their Children, by the Constitution of Family Life. Enemies
of Infant Baptism. Why Opposed to it. Their Sophistry.
Dr. A. Carson. Appeal to Parents. Duty and Privilege of Parents
to have their Children Baptized. Its Neglect and Abuse. How
Abused. The Old Landmarks. Striking Statistics. Abuse by
Parents and Children.
Proper Kind of Names. Law of Correspondence
and Association. Christian Names. Much in a Name. Naming
a Child should not be Arbitrary. Nebuchadnezzar. Adam.
The Hebrews. Woman. Eve. Cain. Seth. Samuel. Dr. Krummacher.
Names now Given. The Folly and Evil of it. Why we
should give Suitable Names. Why Scriptural Names. Mary. Instances
of Proper Christian Names.
Idea of Nursing. What a Nursery Is. The
sense in which Home is a Nursery. Character of the Home-Nursery.
The Mother's Special Sphere. Relation of the Nursery to
the Formation of Character. The Nursery is Physical. Sickly and
Immoral Nurses. Consequences. It is Intellectual. Its Abuse. It
is Moral and Spiritual. The Ways in which the Nursery is Abused.
Boarding Schools.
An Argument against the Neglect and Abuse of
the Nursery. Its Natural Elements. Its Definition and Nature.
The Ancients. Baptista Porta. Plato. Middle Ages. It is Passive
and Active. Its Disease. Good Samaritan. Rousseau. Robespierre.
Its Relation to Natural Affection. Its Relation to Woman.
Its Religious Elements. Christ. Ruth. Joseph. Mother of Samuel.
Peter. Esther. Paul. Family of Lazarus. Its True Pattern.
Its Attractive Power. Unfaithfulness to its Law. Its Highest
Element.
Its Relation to Home-Sympathy. Its Necessity.
Its Idea. Dr. Dwight's View. The Duty to establish it Proven.
Its Neglect. Excuses from Family Prayer. Address to Parents.
What is Home-Education. Different Kinds. It must be Physical.
Intellectual. Moral. The Means. Circumstances. Temptation.
Example. Training. Habit. The Feelings. Conscience. Motives.
Cardinal Virtues. When it should Begin. It must be Religious.
Necessity of this. St. Pierre. The Mother as Teacher.
Objections Considered. Encouragement to Home-Training. Dr.
Doddridge. A Pious Minister. Dr. Dwight. Young Edwards.
Polycarp. Timothy. John Randolph. J.Q. Adams. Daniel. The
Power of Home-Training in Religion.
Popular
Prejudices Exposed. Dr. Johnson. Edmund Burke. Miss Sedgwick.
Everett. Robert Hall. Fruits of a Neglected Education.
Law of the Icelanders. Parents are Responsible. Crates. Pleasure
of Teaching the Young. Thompson. Abuse of it. Fashionable
Boarding-Schools. A Hopeful Young Lady. How to Ruin a
Son. Duty of Parents inferred. Books. Bartholin. Home-Training
not isolated from Church-Training. Must be Churchly.
Their Importance. Their Idea. Different Kinds.
Their Formation. Tobacco and Liquor. Evil and Good Habits.
Family Prayer. Omission of Duty. Their Influence. Rev. C.C.
Colton. A Criminal in India. Habit as the Interpreter of Character.
Its Reproductive Power. We are Responsible for our Habits.
Christian Habits. Habit of Industry. Rutherford. Habits of Perseverance
and Contentment.
Home is a Little Commonwealth. Includes
the Legal Principle. Relation of Parents to Children. Principle
of Home-Government. Parental Authority Threefold. Schlegel.
Old Roman Law. A Divine, Inalienable Right. Extent of Parental
Authority. False View of it. Correlative Relation between Filial
Obedience and Parental Authority. Character and Extent of Filial
Obedience. Neglect and Abuse of Home-Government. Parental
Indulgence and Despotism. The True Medium. Address to Parents.
Its Idea. Its Necessity. False Systems. Discipline
from the standpoint of Law without Love. Its Fruits. A
Quaint Anecdote. The Europeans. The Arabs. Discipline from
the standpoint of Love without Law. Examples. Eli. David. Its
Fruits. True Christian Discipline. Chastisement. A Model System.
Abraham. His Children. When Discipline should be Introduced.
When it should be Administered. Importance of Parental
Co-operation. Favoritism. Relation of Command to Chastisement.
The Kind of Rein and Whip. When Corporeal Punishment should
be Used. Dr. South. Dr. Bell. Its Adaptation to the Real Wants
of the Child. Fidelity to Threats and Promises. Examination of
Offenses. Never Chastise in Anger. Let your Child know the Object
of Discipline.
Its Idea and Influence. The Child is the Moral
Reproduction of the Parent. Solomon. Paul. Shakspeare. Dr.
Young. Its Necessity proven from its Relation to Precept--William
Jay; from its Adaptation to the Capacity and Imitative Disposition
of the Child. Duty of Parents to show a Model Example
to the Child. Archbishop Tillotson. Motives to this Duty. Obstacles
to the Efficacy of good Home-Example. Unequal Marriages.
Jacob's Marriage. Zacharias and Elizabeth.
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.
Its Idea and Relations to Society. Why we
should hold it Sacred. The most Dangerous Departments of Home.
Duty of Parents to instruct their Children in reference to it. How
far the Christian Parlor may Conform to the Laws and Customs of
Fashion. Adulteration of the Christian Home through Indiscriminate
Association. The Sad and Demoralizing Effects. Address to
Parents.
The Bridal Hour. A Home-Crisis.
The Bride's Farewell. Have Parents a right to take any part in
the Marriage Choice of their Children? This Right Proven from
their Relation to their Children, from the Inexperience of Children,
from Sacred History. The Patriarchal Age. Judaism. The Christian
Church. The Extent of this Right. The Duties it Involves.
Moral Control. Coercive Measures. Improper Parental Interposition.
Its Sad Effects. Persuasive Measures. Should Parents Banish
and Disinherit Children for their Marrying against their will?
Paley.
The Mere
Outward. How we determine Unhappy Matches. The Manner
of Paying Addresses. The Habit of Match-Making. Tricks of
Match-Makers. The Sad Fruits. Book Match-Makers. Their
Auxiliaries. The Evil. How Parents may Preserve their Children.
False Influences. Smitten. Outward Beauty. Impulsive
Passion. Falling in Love at First Sight. Wealth. Rank. English
Aristocracy. Nepotism. Snobbishness.
Judicious
Views of the Nature and Responsibilities of the Marriage Institution.
Our Forefathers. Reciprocal Affection. Paley. True Love.
Adaptation of Character and Position. Fitness of Circumstances,
Means, and Age. Religious Equality and Adaptation. Only in the
Lord. The Sad Effect of Inequality. Should Persons Marry Outside
of their Own Branch of the Church? Sin and Curse of Disobedience
to the Law of Religious Equality. Duty of Parents in
reference to Religious Equality. All Matches not made in Heaven.
Law of Moses. Abraham. Historical Instances of the Fruits of
Disobeying this Law. Reasonableness of the Law. The Primitive
Christians. Sense of the Christian Church. Address to Christians.
The Question this Involves. Not
Confined to Wealth. A Good Character and Occupation. True
Religion. How Parents should proceed in the Distribution of their
Property. Why they should give only a Competency. The Rules
to Determine a Competence. Paley. What the Law of Competence
Forbids. Penalties of its Violation. History. Impartiality.
Paley. The Infatuation of many Parents.
Two Kinds. Divine
Promises to Parents and Children. Those of Punishment. Law
of Reproduction. Iniquity of the Parents upon the Children. Promises
of Reward. In this Life. John Q. Adams. In the Life to Come.
God's Fidelity to His Promises. They are Conditional. When they
become Absolute. Popular Objections. Compatibility between
Promises and Agencies. Paul. Moses. Promises made by Parents.
Separation. Bereavements Diversified.
Reverses of Fortune. Death. First Death. Of Husband
and Father. Of a Wife and Mother. Of Children. Of the
Infant. Of the First-Born. Wisdom and Goodness of God in Bereavements.
Discipline. Moral Instruction. The Dead and Living
still Together. Benefit. Death of Little Children is a Kindness
to them. Why. Why Christ became a Little Child. We should
not wish them Back. Their Death is a Benefit to the Living.
Communion of Saints. Ministering Spirits. The Spirit-World.
A Ministering Child. A Ministering Mother. Infant Salvation.
Zuinlius. Calvin. Dr. Junkin. Newton. The Hope of Re-union
in Heaven. We should not murmur against God. This does not
forbid Godly Sorrow and Tears. Meekly Submit.
Chief Justice Gibson. Relation of
Memory to Bereavement. Memories are Pleasing and Painful.
Pleasing and Pious Memories. A Mother's Recollection. The
Pleasures of Remembering the Pious Dead. Irving. The Saving Influence
of Memory. Painful Memories. Critical Power of Memory.
Mementoes of Home. Pictures. Memorials. Letters from Home.
Seek Pleasing Memories.
Typical Relation between
Home and Heaven. The Christian's Tent-Home in its Relation
to Heaven. The Antitypical Character of Heaven. A Comparative
View of our Earthly and our Heavenly Home. Christ the
Center of Heaven's Joy and Attraction. Union between Home and
Heaven. A Conscious Union of the Members in Heaven. Family
Recognition and Love in Heaven. Family Greeting and Joy in
Heaven. Longings after Heaven. Conclusion.