Family Duties, Lectures (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. DUTIES OF MASTERS. MASTFRS, GIVE UNTO YOUR SERVANTS THAT WHICH IS JUST AND EQUAL; KNOWING THAT YE ALSO HAVE A MASTER IN HEAVEN. Col. iv. 1. Source of the relationship?necessity of social subordination.? Duties of Masters?I. In respect of the domestic happiness of servants?consideration for their strength?manner of giving orders?reproof?kindness and sympathy in sickness? granted privileges.?II. In regard of their moral respectability?influence of servants' character upon children ?and upon other servants?giving characters of servants? domestic deceptions.?III. In respect of their religious privileges and improvement?public worship?family prayer ?private conversations on religion.?Conclusion. There is one feature in the relationship to be considered in the present Lecture, by which it is distinguished from those which form the subject of the rest. The relations of parent and child, husband and wife, are original relations.They form an integral element of the domestic constitution; and are therefore hallowed by those inviolable and eternal sanctities, which belong to the ties of nature, and the fundamental laws of God, The relationship between master and servant can plead no such authority. It is a supervening accident of human society,?a permitted result of those providential inequalities, which are not only a designed part of our probation, but which seem to be a very necessity of social life. " The poor shall never cease out of the land," it is declared. They never can cease. If providence were to recall all its gifts to-morrow, and, between the whole family of mankind, were to divide, equally and alike, all the elements of outward happiness, before a generation had passed away, there would be the same diversities of outward condition which we witness now. The str...