HOME: A BOOK FOR THE FAMILY. BY THE REV. W. K. TWEEDIE, D.D., AUTHOR OF SEED-TIME AND HARVEST; OR, SOW WELL AND REAP WELL," "I will walk within my house with a perfect heart."-PSALM ci. 2. LONDON: T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW; MDCCCLVIL 141. 0.474 PREFACE. ERRATA. The Reader is requested to observe that the Titles of Chapters II. and IV. have been transposed. Page 19, for "THE CONSTITUTION OF HOME," read " SCRIPTURAL VIEWS OF HOME." Page 32, for "SCRIPTURAL VIEWS OF HOME," read "CONSTITUTION OF HOME." thropist. Nor are these efforts either too soon employed or too wide in their range. Dreaming speculators would supersede that Institution, which we owe exclusively to the Bible, and abolish all its venerable sanctities. An erring philanthropy would supplement it, as if God's method of governing our families were not sufficiently wise. One man would transform the Homes of a nation into a series of parallelograms, and there cure our social ills as if by, some charm. Others, with a similar object, prefer the circle. A third party would transmute a nation into one PREFACE. It is a favourable sign of our times to see so much attention now concentrated upon Home, its laws, and its general constitution, as a great medicating power in society. Both in this country and America-the only two nations in the world where the Divine Institution has full scope for development the works now published and the efforts put forth upon this subject are full of promise for the future, as well as of present joy to a Christian philanthropist. Nor are these efforts either too soon employed or too wide in their range. Dreaming speculators would supersede that Institution, which we owe exclusively to the Bible, and abolish all its venerable sanctities. An erring philanthropy would supplement it, as if God's method of governing our families were not sufficiently wise. One man would transform the Homes of a nation into a series of parallelograms, and there cure our social ills as if by some charm. Others, with a similar object, prefer the circle. A third party would transmute a nation into one |