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plied the relationships of the home. \\Tiile the advance 

 of the science of education takes both teaching and train- 

 ing of children more and more largely out of the hands 

 of parents ; while the home is no longer related only to 

 church and school and business, but to guild and club 

 and lodge and office, — the church must lead the home 

 to stress more than ever the primary and essential func- 

 tions which ever remain hers. Our advancing civiliza- 

 tion necessitates a more prolonged training than for- 

 merly for the full responsibilities of life. A chief fac- 

 tor in making country-born and bred men and women 

 the leaders in all lines of national progress has been 

 that family life which required each one from child- 

 hood's years to take his due share in the duties of the 

 homo. This home life is in danger. It must be con- 

 served and developed. The Lome must still provide in 

 childhood occupation embodying the child's tastes, the 

 environment's necessities, the parents' wisdom ; and 

 must also provide in youth some form of economic part- 

 nership Ijctween parent and child. This age of organ- 

 ization demands that our youth adjust themselves to a 

 sense of their place in organizations and possess a sense 

 of loyalty to institutions. My boy of seven comes from 

 his school saying, " I'm on the committee, I must see 

 to the programme for Friday afternoon's school con- 

 cert." This has the modern ring. No such training 

 found place in my childhood. The home also must 

 stress lovaltv to itself, and the child's sense of member- 

 ship should broaden out from the home relationships 

 to those of the neighborhood and to all the institutions 

 of society until tin? youth becomes a citizen (»f ti)e world 

 iu the home. Our intenser life demands more recrea- 

 tion, our ampler life more soeial provision. iIihii did 



