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PART III.

Healing Power of Time and Occupation—Delights of Child—Seclusion
of Home—Innocent Sports—Parents
should Provide and Share Them—Restlessness and
Aspiration of Youth—Refinement by Contact—Edith
and Alfred—Dawning Manhood and Womanhood—Peculiar
Beauty of Youth—Holidays—Thanksgiving—Christmas—New
Year's—The Sabbath—Woman's Influence—The
Time to Love—Edith and Arthur—The
Betrothal 67


PART IV.

The Bridal—Household Separations—Diverse Tastes and
Pursuits—Time Giving and Taking—Pleasures of Approaching
Age—Ella and Filial Duty—Womanly Self-Sacrifice
and its High Rewards—The Indian Summer of
Life—Vital Decay—Mary Translated—Looking and
Longing—Edward Sleeps—Home Scenes concluded—Ella
the Heroic—The Christian Home the Hope of
Humanity—The Eternal Home, with Christ and the
Family of God 99