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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HOMES FOR ENGLISH WORKMEN, AS THEY ARE, E approach now a subject of graver import. We are no longer considering the temporary succour to be accorded to the vagrant, or arrangements for the well-being of the passing lodger; but the home of an English workman, as it is to be found in our large cities, and especially in the metropolis. Home ? Of all countries in the world we ought to know best in England what it means, what it implies. It has passed into a proverb, that 'an Englishman's house is his castle.' Family life is one of God's most effective instruments for preserving and renovating the moral health of a nation. It is a germ in which lie folded domestic happiness, education in its truest and highest sense, social purity, loyalty, and order; the germ is encased in a protecting sheath, and that sheath is home. When God created the first parents of our human family, He placed them in a home whichHis own hands had not disdained to prepare and decorate. The intimate connexion between the healthy unfolding of family life, and the home in which it is developed, must be evident to all. What should a workman's home be ? What is the ideal called up to our imagination when we speak of it ? It should be the place to which his heart has turned during the day, while his head or his hands have toiled faithfully to promote the interests of his employer; the place to which he returns at night, laying aside his calling as a servant, to resume the simple and natural dignity with which God has invested him, as head of his family. It is his place of repose, of refreshment, of endearment. In the factory or workshop he is a 'hand, ' esteemed or despised in proportion as he is efficient or inexpert; at home he is the husband, the father, the centre round whom all...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217502443 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021750244X |
| Weight | 0.61 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 182 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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