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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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most delicate shades of meaning, wheremay the child and the youth learn these things ? Is it in lectures atten-tively listened to, or in books learned by heart ? Not at all, gentlemen;these things are learned in the atmosphere in which one lives, in the socialenvironment in which one is placed ; they are learned through family life,not otherwise. Instruction is given in class, at the lyceum, in the school ;education is imparted in the home ; the masters here are the mothers, thesisters. True it is that the state is not competent to form conscience; no lesstrue is it that the family is the great molder of character. The sanctuary ofa good home is a childs safest refuge. There he is wrapped in the panoplyof a mothers love and a mothers care. This love and this care are thesunshine in which his moral nature grows and blossoms into goodness.The child, the youth blessed with a Christian home in which he sees naughtbut good example and hears naught but edifying words, has indeed much r r r
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762 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: SEVENTH DAY. to be thankful for; it is a boon which the longest life of gratitude can butill requite. But what has M. Renan to say to the home in which the father isabsorbed in making money and the mother is equally absorbed in spendingthat money in worldly and frivolous amusements, and the children are aban-doned to the care of servants ? And what has he to say of the home with-out the mother ? And the home in which example and precept are deleteri-ous to the growth of manly character ? And then consider the sunless homesof the poor and the indigent, where the struggle for life is raging with allintensity; consider the home of the workingman, where the father is out fromearly morning to late at night, and the mother is weighed down with thecares and anxieties of a large family and drudging away all day long athousehold duties never done. To speak of home education and delicacy ofconscience and growth of character among such families and under such con-ditions w

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