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plied the relationships of the home. While 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 

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

 served and developed. The home 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 between 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. Xo such training 

 found place in my childhood. The home also must 

 stress loyalty 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 the youth becomes a citizen of the world 

 in the home. Our intenser life demands more recrea- 

 tion, our ampler life more social provision, than did 



