Endeavors After the Christian Life a volume of Discourses
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' 2. The social and domestic relations whose loss we mourn do not really perish, when they seem to die. Those relations, it is needless to say, do not con- sist in the mere juxtaposition of so many human beings. A certain number of animal lives, that are of 280 NOTHING HUMAN EVER DIES. prescribed ages, that eat and drink together, and that sleep under the same roof, by no means make a family. Almost as well might we say, that it is the bricks of a house that make a home. There may be a home in ...the forest or the wilderness; and there may be a family, with all its best blessings, though half its members may be in foreign lands or in an- other world. It is the gentle memories, the mutual thought, the desire to bless, the sympathies that meet when duties are apart, the fervor of the parent's prayers, the persuasion of filial love, the sister's pride and the brother's benediction, that constitute the true elements of domestic life, and sanctify the dwellings of our birth. Abolish the sentiments which pervade and animate the machinery and movements of our social being, and their whole value obviously disap- pears.
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