No nobler social work, no deeper religious work, no higher educational work is done anywhere than that of the men and women, high or humble, who set themselves to the fitting of their children for life's business, equipping them with principles and habits upon which they may fall back in trying hours, and making of home the sweetest, strongest, holiest, happiest place on earth.
Heaven only knows the price that must be paid for that; heaven only knows the worth of that work. But if we are wise we shall each take up our work for our world where it lies nearest to us, in co-operation with parents, in service and sacrifice as parents or kin, our work in the shop where manhood is in the making, where it is being made fit to dwell long in the land, in the family at home.
I. References for Study
Edward Lyttleton, The Corner-Stone of Education, chaps. i, vii. Putnam, $1.50.
A. Gandier, "Religious Education in the Home," Religious Education, June, 1914, pp. 233-42.
II. Further Reading
The Family a Religious Agency
C. F. and C. B. Thwing, The Family. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, $1.60.
J. D. Folsom, Religious Education in the Home. Eaton & Mains, $0.75.
G. A. Coe, Education in Religion and Morals. Revell, $1.35.