HOME-EXAMPLE.--Its Idea and Influence. The Child is the Moral Reproduction
of the Parent. Solomon. Paul. Shakspeare. Dr. Young. Its Necessity proven
from its Relation to Precept--William Jay; from its Adaptation to the
Capacity and Imitative Disposition of the Child. Duty of Parents to show a
Model Example to the Child. Archbishop Tillotson. Motives to this Duty.
Obstacles to the Efficacy of good Home-Example. Unequal Marriages. Jacob's
Marriage. Zacharias and Elizabeth.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE CHOICE OF PURSUITS.--Duty of Preparation for some Useful Occupation.
This should be made in Childhood. The part Parents should take in this.
Duty of all Persons to engage in some Useful Pursuit shown from the
Relation of the Individual to the State, from the Possibility of Future
Misfortune, from the Excessive Prodigality of those who have been brought
up in Idleness. Law of the Athenians. What Parents should consider in their
selection of an Occupation for their Children. Injudicious Course of some
Parents. Fruits of Disobedience to the Law of Adaptation. Social Position.
Exigencies. But one Pursuit. Jack of All Trades. Loaferism. Fruits of
Indolence.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE HOME-PARLOR.--Its Idea and Relations to Society. Why we should hold it
Sacred. The most Dangerous Departments of Home. Duty of Parents to instruct
their Children in reference to it. How far the Christian Parlor may Conform
to the Laws and Customs of Fashion.
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