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CONTENTS.

PART I.

Prelude—Home Earth's Brightest Spot—Everywhere
Dear—Primitive New England—The Pilgrim Fathers—Misjudged
and Wronged—In Advance of their Time—Their
Descendants—A New England Home and its Surroundings—Domestic
Life Ordained of God—Edward
and Mary, the Newly Married Pair—Humanity Complete
only in the Union of Man and Woman—A Home's
History Begun 11


PART II.

The Joy of Wedded Hearts—Morning, and Waking Nature—Their
Charms Heightened by Youthful Sensibility and by
Love—Home Not the Abode of Indolence—Its Tasks
and Burdens—Woman its Queen—Her Court and
Duties—Her Legitimate Aspirations—Husband and
Wife in their Reciprocal Ministries and Influence—The
First-born—Father and Mother—Enlargement of the
Family Circle—Death of a Child—Christian Faith and
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