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

"Let me go! my heart is fainting

’Neath its weight of sin and fears,

And my wakeful eyes are failing

With these ever-falling tears!

For the morning I am sighing,

While I earth’s long vigils keep;

Here the loved are ever dying,

And the loving live to weep!

"Let me go! I fain would follow,

Where I know their steps have passed—