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78 DOMESTIC LIFE ,
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"In A Multitude Of Councillorsthere , Is...
But when we rise into tlie moral sphere , then , indeed , we see plainly that every virtue _pf which man is capable is born out of
the home relations . What is a good man , but a good son , brother , husband , father ; what is a good woman , unless a good
daughter , sister , wife , or mother ? To carry out the wider application , how shall either men or women be good citizens unless hy virtue of their family connection with the commonwealth ? "Whether our
ancestors were tossed up and down on Channel waves in the company of William the Conqueroror raised corn on a Saxon farm
in the days of Longbeard Lord , of Londonor sold cakes and ale to the Canterbury pilgrimsor hot pies to , the ing crowd who
watched Elizabeth enter Kenilworth , still herein gap lies the secret of our obstinate affection to the very name , of England ; hence it is
church that we . Brown are proud himself to serve would as not jurymen be Brown , and had prefer not som our e man parish of ,
his blood once allied himself to the sober-suited color ; nor would Robinson ever have gone up the Rhine if some former Robin had not
not been conscious blessed by of nature ancestors with a son those . v It enerabl may be e shades , indeed , that elude we our are any
Strai keenest ghtway vision we , and are proud all the of conjurations the ; street we of live the in Heralds of may our particular College .
number in that streetour brass knockerour , wife ' s bonnetor husband ' s new boots , of , the little red brick Zion , where we sing every ,
Sunday at the very fullest stretch of our family lungs . But never for one momentwhether we be gentle or simpledo we lose that
, , potent sense of family life which is the essence of all we think and are .
In the highest spiritual region we find the type of the family everywhere prevalent ; not only is the whole of the Gospel narrative
inseparably linked with the family relation , not only have the sacred painters ever chosen this relation in preference to all other subjects
from Holy Writ , but it is constantly taken to express the tie between humanity and God . " The human famil" " the Father of all"
y , , . are common phrases derived _from those innumerable passages , wherein the ties of blood are made to stand as symbols for
part of the spiritual covenant . The great religious organisations every have followed up the idea ; the priest says to the members of his ,
flock , " my son , my daughter . " We talk of Sisters of Charity , and everybodyhigh or lowaddresses them by the title of " sister "
while Freemasons , are , invariably _" brothers . " So that my we cannot , build up moral institutions on whatever scale , without coming
driven to the , on famil all y hands to hel to p acknowle us with dge its that names our and corporate its ideas life ; of and which are
we are so proud , is but an aggregation of that domestic union imposed by Nature and Nature ' s God .
It is , however , equally curious to observe the reflex action of national upon domestic life . An idea set afloat in the metropolis ,
at once the beating heart and teeming head of the body corporate ,
78 Domestic Life ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/6/
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