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Excerpt from The Home-Scenes of the New Testament: Or, Christ in the Family
IN presenting this volume to the public, we have no apology to Offer, unless it be for the imperfect manner in which we have actualized the true ideal of the Christian Home. The idea Of the Family which we have endeavored to develop and illustrate in these consecutive Home-scenes of the New Testa ment, we regard as essentially connected with all social progress and Christian civilization. The Family as a Divine Ordinance, is the first and most influential school Of man. Here must ever abide the deepest Springs Of Social Life. N O extraneous education, whether in the week-day or Sabbath school, can be substituted for Home culture and training. The greatest privileges and most sacred responsibilities find their basis here; and we are taught first, to show piety at Home. The Family, it is said, is the first element of society. The Home is an institution, forecast in the very peculiarities of our nature. It is the foundation Of all society. It em bosoms the germ and ideal of the state. It is the nursery of the Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
