general reluctance on the part 390. Never shirk your duty 391. Home! the abode of the highe nursery of domestic virtue, the ever-f love, the beginning of our existence, tact between successive generations-1 sociations which cling around it in e breast! How do we all revere the self-d toiling mother who brought us into b childhood, formed our earliest ideas; sheltered us, during the dependent yea vised us unselfishly, as only parents essays to walk alone the slippery paths love and companionship so soothing as what friendship so strong as that of brot what enjoyment so pure as that of a fotl caressed by th 392. Or will you neglect your duty as a man and citizen, by selfishly remaining single, preferring mean, isolated gratification of avarice to the high happiness vouchsafed to man? Or if you marry, can y expect to realize the ideal domestic life in crowded hot and boarding houses-where fashion supplants natu where the wife must substitute idleness, extravaga and folly for the industry and economy of her o domicile; where the husband must encounter the ten tations of luxurious dissipation; and where child are not only denied their rights to liberty and heal but are merely a nuisance to the artificial society t deems itself afflicted by their presence? 393. Such was not the idea of those old Purita Huguenots and Quakers, who, with their noble famil of sturdy sons and thrifty daughters, laid the found tions of this great republic. Nor will the men a women of your generation hand down our instit tions in their purity to posterity, unless they p serve from desecration the sacred idea of home. Live therefore in your own house. Protect t privacy of your family. Regard the comfort, beauty a attractiveness of your dwelling as objects worthy of yo careful attention, for to these your children will lo back in after life as upon the bright colors of the sun cloud. Prove yourself a good husband and fath Exert your every energy in the education of yo children. See that they thoroughly understand a love the system of American ideas. And rest sured that when old age creeps over your declining yea the remembrance of duty rightly performed to those w are to come after you, will add more to your peace mind than every other gift this world has nowan to NOTES.-"Lo, children are an heritag Like as the arrows in the hand young children. Happy is the man t THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHO 394. "God, that made the w therein, hath made of one blood for to dwell on all the face of th You have gathered from the lesso mankind have always been prone t tions. Divided into many nations, each point of difference has been ma bloody debate. Feuds between cla been handed down from father to so the smouldering embers of ancient war kindle new conflagrations among the cient foes. Thus the Mohammedan ha the Russian detests the Turk; the Ca spise the Indian, the Negro, and the M is a rancorous feeling between the Fren between the English and the Irish; bet ant and the Catholic; between the G churches; between the Jew and Gentil various Protestant sects. What are all spites but remnants of barbarism, or th depraved prejudice? Shall it be soid 11 civilization ildren are an heritage and gift that m arrows in the hand of the giant, evens [appy is the man that hath his qua: be ashamed when they speak with the cxxvii: 4-6. LECTURE IV. RSAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. made the world and all t > of one blood all nations of he face of the earth." from the lessons of this book: been prone to wars and pe any nations, races, and relig › has been made the subje between clans and faiths 1 father to son; so that even of ancient wars are ever ready s among the descendants of hammedan hates the Christi urk; the Caucasian races , and the Mongolian. The en the French and Germans e Irish; between the Protes ween the Greek and Latin and Gentile; and between hat are all these hereditary urism, or the outgrowth of hot the Christian foolish and wicked old-world notions? Can it be all men are invited to enjoy the blessings of civil lib in this "land of the free;" that to all men who pro attachment to our Constitution the ballot is entrus irrespective of birth or of faith; that the law prot all, educates all without distinctions of any kind; and no higher morality than that of Europe or Asia insp our ideas? 395. You have studied the foregoing lessons to li use, if you cannot free your mind from all prejudice class, faith, color, or nationality. How dare you criminate, where God does not, or deny the rig which His laws, re-enacted in American institutio have guaranteed alike to every human being? Th may be among us those who have not enjoyed your vantages of free education-the slaves of tyranny! ignorance and vice. But where did you acquire right to blame such people for the accidents of th birth and early training? Had you been so born trained would you be any more advanced than th Have they not by nature the same reason and un standing, the same passions and feelings, the same b and mind, that you have? How know you but their hands, American advantages would have duced even higher results than in yours? know you what American education will do for t children? 296. Commiserate then the failings and misfortune others. Relieve their sufferings. Enlighten their mi But despise not any man who equally with yourself created in the image of God. 27 PROGRES 397. Given a nation of many 398. To the savage a drop of wate beyond a wetting in the rain, or a sla let us see with what a world of tl knowledge has invested it. We may treat it in connection with tation, which not only causes the rai earth to keep its orbit, and all the around the sun. We may think of it in relation to cloud-drops refract into many colors f bow; or it suggests 11 |