Excerpt from The Family
God has ordained three institutions for the welfare of mankind - the family, the church, the state. The most important and responsible is the family, because it furnishes the foundation on which the others must build, the subjects with whom they must do their work; the more responsible in that it does its part first, and failure here can be remedied only in part; the more responsible because, while the state looks to civil rights and the church to spiritual culture, the family, the first ordained, has the care of the physical, the mental, and the moral. It has to do with being as well as with relations. It is under heavy bonds for the proper structure, even to the furnishing and beautifying, of each of the three stories of man's nature and of all of them together, while the church has the contract only for one, - the spiritual, and only the finishing of that as begun in the home, - and the state merely stands guard as the work is being done by the others.
The family is the more important and responsible because it is possible for it to meet all of its obligations without either of the others. Its work well done leaves almost nothing for them to do. If so responsible, why so little said by public teachers, ministers, editors, statesmen, authors, as to how to construct, dignify, and beautify the home?
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