Neglect. Address to Parents and Children. Home-Meetings and Greetings.


CHAPTER II.

THE MISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN HOME.--The Nature of this Mission. David.
Joshua. It is Two-fold. The Temporal Well-Being of the Members. How Parents
Abuse this part of the Home-Mission. The Eternal Well-Being of the Members.
Extent of the Home-Mission. Its Importance and Responsibility. Seen in the
Vicarious Character of Home. The Principle of Moral Reproduction. The
Visitation of Parental Iniquity upon the Children. The Guilt of
Unfaithfulness to this Mission. Qualifications for it. The Law of Equality
in Marriage. How Parents may Disqualify themselves for it. Incentives to
Faithfulness. Address to Parents.


CHAPTER III.

FAMILY RELIGION.--The Christian Home Demands Family Religion. What is it?
Different from Personal Religion. Co-existent with. Home. Essential to its
Constitution. Its Historical Development from Eden to the Present Age. Its
Present Neglect. What it Includes. The Example of our Primitive Fathers.
The Forms in which it is Developed. The Home-Mission Demands it. Its
Necessity seen in the Value of the Soul. Home without it. Home with it.
Relations of Home Demand it. Reply to Excuses from it. Defect of it now.
Reasons for this. It is Implied in the Marriage Relation and Obligation.
Motives to Establish it.


CHAPTER IV.