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The bible is adapted to the Christian home. It is the book for the family.
It is the guardian of her interests, the exposition of her duties, her
privileges, her hopes and her enjoyments. It exposes her errors, reveals
her authority and government, sanctions her obedience, proclaims her
promises, and points out her path to heaven. It makes sacred her marriages,
furnishes names for her children, gives the sacrament of her dedication to
God, and consecrates her bereavements. It is the fountain of her richest
blessings, the source of her true consolation, and the ground of her
brightest hope. It is, therefore, the book of home. She may have large and
splendid libraries; history, poetry, philosophy, fiction, yea, all the
works of classic Greece and Rome, may crowd upon her shelves; but of these
she will soon grow wearied, and the dust of neglect will gather thick upon
their gilded leaves; but of the bible the Christian home can never become
weary. Its sufficiency for all her purposes will throw a garland of
freshness around every page; its variety and manifoldness; its simplicity
and beauty; its depth of thought and intensity of feeling, adapt it to
every capacity and to every want, to every emergency and to every member,
of the household. The little child and the old man, hoary with the frost of
many winters, find an equal interest there. The rich and the poor, the
learned and the ignorant, the high and the low, are alike enriched from its
inexhaustible treasury.
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