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

"Oh, friends regretted, scenes forever dear,

Remembrance hails you with her burning tear!

Drooping she bends o’er pensive fancy’s urn,

To trace the hours which never can return;

Yet with retrospection loves to dwell,

And soothe the sorrows of her last farewell!"

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Chapter XXVIII—The Antitype Of The Christian Home.

"Oh, talk to me of heaven! I love