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

I hear your lessening voices as they go;

Have ye no sign, no solace to fling back

To those who toil below?

"Oh! from that land of love,

Look ye not sometimes on this world of wo?

Think ye not, dear ones, in brighter bowers above,

Of those you left below?

"Surely ye note us here,

Though not as we appear to mortal view,

And can we still, with all our stains, be dear