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Title: The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Detling, William Colbert
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Publisher: Cleveland, O.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ybe, it is yet one of the most blessed places onearth if truly Christian. Let me repeat, nofather or mother who has trained a child forChrist has failed. WHAT HOME IS. Home has been thus variously defined by dif-ferent people:. Home is the blossom, of which Heaven isthe fruit. * The golden setting, in which the brightestjewel is mother. The fathers kingdom, the childrens para-dise, the mothers world. The place where the great are sometimessmall and the small great. The center of our affections, around whichour hearts best wishes twine. The jewel casket, containing the most pre-cious of all jewels — domestic happiness. The only spot on earth where the faults andfailings of fallen humanity are hidden underthe mantle of charity. A little hollow scooped out of the windyhill of the world, where we can be shielded from > H ^ ^ CD > tr P^ P^ 53 er, mo o hold ohair P thereacisfi w H m: p - !2J O Q w ^ ^ ^ ^ > CD Qj -— 1—< ^ ^ ^ C^ S ^ 9. ^ beiall O I—1 j; w ^^ o rr t-^ p H
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THE THREE CIRCLES. 45 its cares and annoyances.. Home is the central telegraph office ofhuman love, into which run innumerable wiresof affection, many of which, though extendingthousands of miles, are never disconnectedfrom the one great terminus. CHRIST AND THE CHILDREN. (Seep. 36.)Christ was the first great lover of the chil-dren. While the great men in philosophy andreligion of Greece and Rome gave littleattention to children, and almost in some casesapologizing for their existence, He took themin His arms and blessed them; and also madetheir innocency and purity the standard for en-trance into His kingdom. Yes, Christ Him-self was on earth first as a little child. Hisincarnation and birth has sanctified and madeholy the birth of every child. Unto us achild is born. Blessed be the parents whoreally know the importance of the child thatis born to them. Christianity cares for theweakest and most unpromising of them, andoften makes great men of them, while heathencountries dispose of

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