The Family At Home Or Familiar Illustrations Of The Various Domestic Duties

Author : Gorham D. Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781508439868
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Family at Home written by Gorham D. Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 68 practical chapters covering everything from courtship and marriage to showing respect for the aged Godly advice for the entire family. Contents: Section 1 -- Introduction; The Sutton Family; Deference to Parents Section 2 -- Speculation and suretyship; Self-Conceit; Punctuality; Procrastination; Decision of Character; Mutual Forbearance; Maxims on Waste; Female Dress; Sobriety and Moderation Section 3 -- Health and Sickness; Looking for Things in Wrong Places; Good Thoughts in the Midst of Business; Where There's a Will There's a Way; Correcting Mistakes; Conquest of Evil Tempers; Ill-gotten Goods Section 4 -- Changing Residences; Providence; Peace and Forgiveness; Kindness Among Neighbors; Self-Denial; Usefulness; Courtship and Marriage; Care of Children; Family Prayer Section 5 -- Advice to Young Tradesmen Section 6 -- Helping One Another; Changing Employment; Superstition; Homemakers; Respect to the Aged; Jesting, Foolishness; Christian Patriotism; Good and Ill Reports; Companions and Secrets; Government of the Tongue Section 7 -- Reading; Common Sense; Politeness; Help and Pity; Maxims Against Sin; Conscience; Self-examination; Repentance Section 8 -- The Awful State of a Wicked Man; Sickness, Recovery, Death; True Riches; Crosses and Afflictions; The Widow and the Fatherless; Christian Contentment and Cheerfulness; Hints for Young People Section 9 -- Rules for Daily Conduct; Brothers and Sisters; Decision in Religion; Consistency with Religious Profession; Advice for Children; Remarks on Religious Education; My Own Way "The first step to obtaining true wisdom for ourselves, or imparting useful instruction to others, is to obtain a clear insight into human nature; to keep constantly in view our own depravity and the corruption of our hearts, as the great source of all our mistakes, both concerning the interests of time and eternity. We are too apt to look upon idleness, extravagance, selfishness, incivility, and peevishness, as accidental faults, which stand alone, and which are to be corrected by arguing against this or that particular vice or folly; but the fact is, they are all so many streams issuing from a corrupt fountain, and the only effectual cure will be found in purifying the fountain. If the heart is renewed by the grace of God, though lesser faults may for a time be overlooked, yet, when they are fairly brought before the notice of the individual, they will be regarded in the light of sins against God, and on that ground steadfastly and successfully resisted. "I therefore wish my children to remember, that, though I may often set down some particular instance of conduct, and the consequences resulting from it; it is my settled conviction,--that whatever is bad in conduct flows from the inward depravity of the heart, and whatever is really good flows from the renewing influences of the Holy Spirit on the heart, making the tree good, that the fruit also may be good; moreover, that, though people without religion may act wisely in some particulars, there is nothing uniformly and permanently valuable in character, but what springs from Christian principles." -Gorham D. Abbott