The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc.

by Samuel Philips

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Chapter XXI—The Choice Of Pursuits.

"For what then was I born? to fill the circling year

With daily toil for daily bread, with sordid pains and pleasures?

To walk this chequered world, alternate light and darkness,

The day-dreams of deep thought followed by the night-dreams of fancy?

To be one in a full procession?—to dig my kindred clay?

To decorate the gallery of art? to clear a few acres of forest?

For more than these, my soul, thy God hath lent thee life!"