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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