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

How does it lacerate both your heart and his!"

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Chapter XIV—Home-Sympathy.

"Sweet sensibility! thou keen delight!

Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right!

Perception exquisite! fair virtue’s seed!

Thou quick precursor of the liberal deed!

Thou hasty conscience! reason’s blushing morn!

Instinctive kindness, ere reflection’s born!