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

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Chapter XVIII—Home-Government.

"Alas! for a thousand fathers, whose indulgent sloth

Hath emptied the vial of confusion over a thousand homes.

Alas! for the palaces and hovels, that might have been nurseries for heaven,

By hot intestine broils blighted into schools for hell;

None knoweth his place, yet all refuse to serve,

None weareth the crown, yet all usurp the scepter;

The mother, heart-stricken years agone, hath dropped into an early grave;