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The Christian Family
Joshua 24:15 "As for ME and my HOUSE, we will serve the Lord."
The image of this impressive passage is taken from the highest form of human society—the family constitution. There exists not, among earthly institutions, a diviner, holier, or more beauteous one than the domestic. It was among the earliest, as among the wisest and most beneficent, creations of God; and, when it has been preserved in its integrity—pure, honored, and sanctified—it has proved a well-spring of individual happiness, social progress, and national prosperity, of the loftiest character.
The human race—sinful and divided as it is—has never entirely lost its family instincts and domestic yearnings. Separated from its Divine Creator, and, consequently, separated from itself, mankind still crave and strive after unity. To meet this want and to satisfy this desire, men have devised and employed various expedients. The sword has been drunk with blood; Commerce has spread its canvas upon every sea; Ecclesiasticism has employed its engine of power; but all attempts to accomplish a unity of the race into one great family, under one supreme human will and head, have proved signal and complete failures. Thus the experiment has been tried without effect, upon a grand and costly scale.
Joshua 24:15 "As for ME and my HOUSE, we will serve the Lord."
The image of this impressive passage is taken from the highest form of human society—the family constitution. There exists not, among earthly institutions, a diviner, holier, or more beauteous one than the domestic. It was among the earliest, as among the wisest and most beneficent, creations of God; and, when it has been preserved in its integrity—pure, honored, and sanctified—it has proved a well-spring of individual happiness, social progress, and national prosperity, of the loftiest character.
The human race—sinful and divided as it is—has never entirely lost its family instincts and domestic yearnings. Separated from its Divine Creator, and, consequently, separated from itself, mankind still crave and strive after unity. To meet this want and to satisfy this desire, men have devised and employed various expedients. The sword has been drunk with blood; Commerce has spread its canvas upon every sea; Ecclesiasticism has employed its engine of power; but all attempts to accomplish a unity of the race into one great family, under one supreme human will and head, have proved signal and complete failures. Thus the experiment has been tried without effect, upon a grand and costly scale.
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