OR THE DUTIES AND ENJOYMENTS OF FAMILY RELIGION: CONTAINING PART I.-COME TO PRAYER. PART II.-HOME MADE HAPPY. PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE : AND SOLD BY L. AND J. SEELEY, FLEET STREET, LONDON. MDCCCXXXV. ADVERTISEMENT. THE series of volumes, of which this work is the commencement, is intended to promote the cause of knowledge and religion among families. It is designed to be of a popular and practical character, and to exert a direct religious influence-though it is not to be exclusively of a religious character. The successive volumes will be, in some cases, original works; in others, compilations, or republications of such works as may be suited to the design of the series. The present volume is the joint production of several writers interested in the plan. Јасов Аввотт. JOSTON. The Master of a Family a Vicegerent, not a Sovereign. The family a divine institution—Its peculiarities- History of a family-Power committed to the head of it-The master of a family a vicegerent, not a sovereign-Proper influence of this view-God's PAGE CHAPTER II.-THE DUTY OF FAMILY PRAYER. General influence of family prayer-Mode of con- |