The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-05
The Rev Bo.rdm.a. Work. /" The Bible !" tns
FamiIy,o

Family"
We indebted TO the author for copy OF this inter
esting work, which cannot much commend to the
patronage Of readers There is probably work IN
modern times which congresses into short space the
instruction which Is contained in the Bible applicable
to those Divine institutions, the FAMILY the STATE, and
the CHuRcH Its style remarkable for its ease and
pliciiy, and the important doctrines of the Holy Scrip
lures brought home to families in their ordinary
pursuits, so that all who have the advantages OF CON-
mon education may profit by the demonstrations which
are afforded of the superior wisdom of the laws
tanned in the Bible, if they be considered apart from
the Divine authority which has prescribed them
rule Of moral conduct. The publication Of this work
invited by number of gentlemen OF high social and
professional standing in Philadelphia, who had attended
the lectures OF which is composed and who are there
fore most competent judges OF its merits The letter of
these gentlemen calling for the publication appears
the preface OF the work. and is in the following words
4as PHILADELPHIA, June IA, 1851
REVERSED AND DEAR SIR We have heard with great
satisfaction your lectures The Bible in The Family"
They OF the domestic relations, and exhibit them
founded upon the Word OF God and regulated by D
vine preceps the chief sources OF our personal and
There proneness 10 overlook the commonplace vir
tues which make up the daily beauty OF the Christian
eto be attracted too much by startling traits OF rare
herosm, sometimes OF questionable morality, and 10 fol-
low some tangled vagary OF mans invention TO the
comparative neglect OF those which ado and bless the
domestic fireslCe
You have shown us that no such mistakes are found in
the records of Inspiration There these relations and the
avs to govern them find prominent and appropriate
sideraon in the illustrations of the pulpit
Allow say that this duty has been ably and faith
fully performed in your late dscourses, which demon
strae the great truth that the Bible in the family is essen
al to domestic comfort, and no less Indispensable TO
our social, political, and temporal welfare than TO
cur eternal happiness And we earnestly desire TO have
these lectures the shape to be preserved for ges
and our families. But we desire more: we desire that
the benefits experienced by those who heard them may
be dinused throughout the whole community.
tion believing that they will condu 70 the great good OF
many and materially aid in that which is OF so much i'm.
porance to society-the preservation OF the essential
prominence OF the domestic relations, and the laws by
which they are 10 be wisely and properly governed.
To the Rev HENRY A. BoARDMAN, ID. d.
We add extract from the introductory lecture. show
ing the manner Of tne author to style and thought
The BIBLE IN THE FAMILY.-The very statement of
thesis suggests ore OF the most important aspects
in which the subject can be viewed No one would
think of writing dissertation on she Shaster in the
family" or ''1he Koran in the family" We must do vo-
ence to all our associations before we can blend to-
geher the ideas which either of these formularies
presses The feeling they excite. even in the mind of
intelligent Christian youth, is that the Koran and the
Shaster have properly speaking, nothing TO do with The
famy-that in the wide regions where those systems
bear sway the family, in our sense OF the term j. IN.
known But such incongruity is felt 10 exist between
the Bible and the family So far from H. the two things
ndssoluby bound together wherever the Bible is,
there the family will be found The Bible, in fact,
veals the origin Of the domestic constitution. and places
before reposing the impregnable basis OF Di
vine authority God setteth the solitary in families"
This constitution originated in Paradise "Have We
not read that He which made them al the beginning made
them male and female and said, 'ior this shall
leave father and mother. and shall cleave TO his
wife, and they twain shall be one flesh 2 Wherefore,
they twain, but flesh What, therefore,
God hath joined together lei not put asunder.'
Marriage, we are here taught las indeed. we are by
himself |. is limited to the union OF two persons. The
terms throughout singular and dual-"a man"-''his
wife"-.twain"-"o flesh" man is to cleave not to
his wivcs" but to bis wie." and they "twain." with
out any third party, are 10 be zone flesh
II is also. according to this representation, the most in
While it does not annul takes precedence Of the union
between parents and children Strong and tender the
lia relation is. it must give place 10 the conjuga "For
this shall leave father and mother, and shall
cleavs to his wife"
1t is, furthermore, perpetual union. "Wha, God
hath joined together let not put asunder" This is
remarkable language. Everything that occnrs may be
ascribed to Gods direction permission But this act
he challenges peculiarly his II is His preroga
tive TO consummae this union The special signature OF
His authority is upon it, He reserves TO Himself the
control OF IT, and will not permit man to interfere with
it, The only exception he has made is in the case OF a
crime which defeats all the ends for which marriage
instituted, and really destroys its nature.
Let US here before proceeding to notice the other
points OF contact between the Bible and the family and
tic constitution derives from the state OF the world. II
would be quite superuous to adduce arguments proof
Of the benefits resulting from this institution But in
dispensabe IL is 10 the highest welfare beth OF indi.
viduals and OF States is TO be found in its purity and
just authority only in connexion with the Bible Where
the principles of the Bible eIectuay lodged in IN.
hearts OF community, there the family compact will be
found in its ntegrya perennial fountain sending forth
streams which approximate more nearly than any others
in this world TO the water of the river OF life Where the
Bible has but precarious hold upon people, in too
many OF the countries Of continental Europe, there the
family institute will be dsparsged, and its obligations
sighted And where the Bible just beginning TO strike
its roots into the soil OF pagan land Of the earliest
OF its fruits the temperance oil this Divine organza
tion-the family is slowly evolved from the accumulated
corrupons Of ages, and comes forth like the first
ray OF the morning upon creation, the harbinger of
"perfect day.
The chief systems principles opposed to the family
constitution these three-to wit, SOCIALISM,
MY, and the unrestraaed power OF DIVORCE The frs,
of these has been revived and propagaed with great zeal
OF late years in France England, and the United States
say revived because although the name by which il
passes il new, the thing itself is old. The world could
not wait ak thousand years without having some
sensuast discover that the true way organize society
let the herd together like the beasts OF the
field Mr. Robert Dale Owen and his associates have bu,
exhuned and galvanized a buried and loathsome
in undertaking replace the Divine right Of
rage with this scheme.
Later 1ex,co.
BY the arrival yesterday of the schooner Oregon, from
1ampco, the New Orleans PcayuDe has received files OF