Publisher's Synopsis
WITHOUT apology I send forth my thoughts on the great, absorbing question of Christian Education in its domestic form, and this I do with no desire to appear as a literary man, panting for literary fame; but because it is a duty laid upon my heart and inspiring all my thoughts from early manhood to old age. My book is not designed for instruction in the common-school, nor the high-school, nor the college; but for the home; not for the recitation room, but for the nursery and the fireside. The duty which impels my hand to write this book, and the love which inspires its sentiments, is a duty and a love resulting from actual labors in the school-house, and intensified by close and extensive observations in the families among whom it has been my high privilege to sojourn, both in my native hind and in foreign countries. As for the thoughts, the sentiments, and the principles embodied in it, they have been formulating themselves for about fifty-five years.
