Status Updates From Domestic Duties Considered

"O! what a privilege that I was born of such parents! ....How wisely they directed, every pious sentiment and every holy purpose!"

"The very engagement (family worship) will remind them of the presence and agency of God. Your addressing him for pardon will convict them of guilt; your interceding for your country, will teach patriotism...."

"Politeness consists of using kind words to all; in keeping every offensive subject out of view; in never intruding your own partialities; but always minutely regarding the wishes of others.. accommodating yourselves to their habits, tastes; in forgetting yourselves. Scripture says, "Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification." Rom. 15:12, Eph. 4:29)"

"Religion secures those duties, upon the performance of which the famines of households depend."

"We call upon you to remember the future enjoined upon Christians with regard to their households. The discharge of these duties in married life requires union, countenance, assistance. They cannot be performed go advantage, if at all, wherein the heads of the family, there of a contrarity of convictions, dispositions, and pursuits."

"Only true Christianity has been the proper friend of the family. When God the Father would save a people from their sin He prepared a family in which to send His only begotten Son into the earthly sphere to redeem. Thus we are reminded that sin had its origin in a family and salvation had its origin through a family."

"There is no substitute for family."

Let the Bible be the mirror at which you dress; and while others are weightily engaged in catching a fashion, or adjusting a curl, let the object of your cultivation be the understanding, the memory, the will, the affections, the conscience.