This book will be an inspiration to fathers, mothers, and children, the married and unmarried, because God's ideal of family life is held up. It is suggestive rather than exhaustive. It is plain on delicate points of the subject. The author, by nature and grace, by the home from which he came, by knowing how to rule well his own house, by his experience and success as a public teacher, is fitted to Speak on this too much neglected subject, and deserves a large hearing. The added words by the father of the author, the promoter of these lectures to the students Of the Seminary, are from a man Of prayer, piety, symmetry, and experience.