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Besides, there are names of distinguished Christians, such as Wilberforce,
Howard, Page, Martyn, Paul, Peter, John, Fenelon, Clement, Baxter,
&c.,--bright as dew-drops on the page of history, and as beautiful in their
enunciation as any chosen from the world of heartless fashion,--as
beautiful in sound, and infinitely more so in associations which bind them
to deeds of humanity and Christian love. The utterance of such names would
be more becoming the Christian home; because they aid in developing the
purest, holiest and loftiest idea of its nature and calling. Such names
will bind your little ones to pure and holy persons and deeds, and will
suit the book of life in which you hope to have them enrolled.
"Then, safe within a better home, where time and its titles are not
found,
God will give thee His new name, and write it on thy heart;
A name, better than of sons, a name dearer than of daughters,
A name of union, peace and praise, as numbered in thy God."
CHAPTER XIII.
HOME AS A NURSERY.
"The Ostrich, silliest of the feathered kind,
And formed of God without a parent's mind,
Commits her eggs, incautious, to the dust,
Forgetful that the foot may crush the trust;
And, while on public nurseries they rely,
Not knowing, and too oft not caring why,
Irrational in what they thus prefer
No few, that would seem wise, resemble her.
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