2805. Look then most jealously upon all that may tend to attract you from home, and to weaken that union upon which your temporal happiness mainly depends; and believe that in the solemn relationship of husband is to be found one of the best guarantees for man's honor and happiness.


2806. When once a man has established a home, his most important duties have fairly begun.


2807. The errors of youth may be overlooked; want of purpose, and even of honor, in his earlier days, may be forgotten.


2808. But from the moment of his marriage he begins to write his indelible history; not by pen and ink, but by actions—by which he must ever afterward be reported and judged.


2809. His conduct at home; his solicitude for his family; the training of his children; his devotion to his wife; his regard for the interests of eternity, are his record.