Excerpt from Happy Homes, and How to Make Them: Or Counsels on Love, Courtship and Marriage<br><br>Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A day's march nearer Home.<br><br>Home is a sweet and terrible word, as Douglas Jerrold says, and no wonder; for were not the last words of Jesus spent in asking John to provide a home for his mother. Yes, Home is the chief school of human Virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes, form the chief interests of human life. Go where a man may, home is the centre to which his heart turns. The thought of his Home nerves his arm and lightens his toil. For that his heart yearns when he is afar off. There he garners up his best trea sures. God has ordained for all men alike the highest earthly happiness, in providing for all the sanctuary of Home. Every one must have re marked that almost the strongest motives to well doing, to honesty, sobriety, diligence, and good conduct in general, arise, with the bulk of people, from considerations connected with their families.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.