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

No vain petition for a swift relief,

No tearful eye, no broken hearts are there

"Care has no home

Within that realm of ceaseless praise and song;

Its tossing billows break and melt in foam,

Far from the mansions of the spirit-throng.

"The storm’s black wing

Is never spread athwart celestial skies;

Its wailings blend not with the voice of spring,

As some too tender floweret fades and dies."