Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope
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children, who live in brotherhood, who take life as their opportunity
for those family joys of service and sacrifice. It hopes to solve the world's ills, not by external regulations, but by bringing all men into a new family life, a birth into this new family life with God, so securing a new personal environment, a new personality as the center and root of all social betterment. He who would come into this new social order must come into the divine family, must humble himself and become as a little child, must know his Father and love his brothers. Christianity, then, not only seeks an ideal family; it makes the family the ideal social institution and order. It makes family life holy, sacramental, religious in its very nature. This fact gives added importance to the preservation and development of the ideals of family life for the sake of their religious significance and influence. It not only makes religion a part of the life of the home but makes a religious purpose the very reason for the existence of the Christian type of home. It makes our homes essentially religious institutions, to be judged by religious products. I. References for Study G.A. Coe, _Education in Religion and Morals_, chap. xvi. Revell, $1.35. Article on "The Family," in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_. II. Further Reading |
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