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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 Hope     37