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Title: The Home Mission
Author: T.S. Arthur
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Language: English
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THE HOME MISSION.
By T. S. ARTHUR.
BOSTON: PHILADELPHIA:
1853.

CONTENTS.

A VISION OF CONSOLATION THE STEP-MOTHER POWER OF KINDNESS BEAR AND FORBEAR THE SOCIAL SERPENT THE YOUNG MOTHER THE GENTLE WARNING KATE'S EXPERIMENT "MY FORTUNE'S MADE" THE GOOD MATCH THE BROTHER'S TEMPTATION THE HOME OF TASTE THE TWO SISTERS THE EVENING PRAYER A PEEVISH DAY, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES SISTERS BROTHERS HOME A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE ON THE PATH OF A MONEY-LENDER ENGAGED AT SIXTEEN THE DAUGHTER PASSING AWAY THE LOVE SECRET

PREFACE.

IF it were possible to trace back to their beginnings, in each individual, those good or evil impulses that have become ruling affections, in most cases the origin would not be found until we had reached the home of childhood. Here it is that impressions are made, which become lasting as existence itself. But the influence of home is not alone salutary or baneful in early years. Wherever a home exists, there will be found the nursery of all that is excellent in social or civil life, or of all that is deformed. Every man and woman we meet in society, exhibit, in unmistakable characters, the quality of their homes. The wife, the husband, the children, the guest, bear with them daily a portion of the spirit pervading the little circle from which they have come forth. If the sun shines there, a light will be on their countenances; but shadows, if clouds are in the sky of home. If there be disorder, defect of principle, discord among the members, neglect of duty, and absence of kind offices, the sphere of those who constitute that home can hardly be salutary. They will add little to the common stock of good in the social life around them. We need not say how different will be the influence of those whose home-circle is pervaded by higher, purer, and truer principles.
A word to the wise is, we are told, sufficient. He, therefore, who speaks a true word in the ear of the wise, has planted a seed that will surely spring up and yield good fruit. May we hope that all into whose hands this little book is destined to come are wise, and that the few suggestive words spoken therein, as "hints to make home happy," will fall into good ground. If this be so, "The Home Mission" will not be fruitless. Though no annual reports of what it has accomplished are made, its silent and unobtrusive work, we trust, will be none the less effectual.

THE HOME MISSION.
A VISION OF CONSOLATION.

THE tempest of grief which,