Excerpt from The Christian Home, as It Is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church: Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home; Its Education, Government, and Discipline We must adopt the same method. We need in the pres ent day a deeper and more scriptural sense, both in the state and church, of the importance of the family, and of its posi tion in the sphere of natural and religious life. The atten tion of the people should be directed to the nature, the influ emees, the responsibilities, the prerogatives, duties and bless ings of the Christian home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.