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THE GLOBE.
TRINITY CHURCH.
TExr.-psalms LXvIIl, G.--"God sctteth the
solitary in families
To-day is a festival of family rcunion-a
day to remind us afrcsh Of home and of fami-
ly joys, even though we be homeless and
have long ago lost sight of faces familiar
to our youth. 1t is, in fact, the homeless
and the outcast who feel most deeply and
keenly the suggestions of the day. God
himself ordained the family, long before
either church or state was heard Of. 1t is
His ''primary institution" At the very
first lie saw that ii was mot good for man
meet for him y and ordained it as Il law of
nature, that "a man should leave his father
and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,
and the twain should be no longer two, but
one flesh From the beginning God has
ordained that the family, consisting of the
two-fold united head, and of the children
who might be given them, should be one !:
one in interest, in sentiment, in affection,
in action. The family, then, and not the
individual is the true unit of socicty-that
upon which, as a basis, all social institu-
tons are; or should be founded. a man or
q woman alone is but fraction of humani-
ty. When 1.-THE twain are made Zone
places IL the Arithmetic of human exist
ence and welfare. SOLITARY" men and
women often have important missions
which they alone can fulfill But such
cases are more or less exceptional. The
grand problems of human life are ordina-
rly to be solved by the use of integers
rather than of fractions. Not the indvid-
ual, then, but the family, the household,
i. c., that which the house holds (forno house
ought to hold more than one family is the
fundamental unit, upon which all relations,
social, political and ecclesiastical are, or
ought to be, based. TO the united head
of the family it pertains TO train their chill
dren for their own future responsibilities.
Ordinarily it seems to deyelvc up
vi 'hc man 10 nc inc protector
and provider of the household
the husband, lie. the houseband-the one
who binds together the constituent Gle
ments Of the household INTO one compact
and secure Whole to do the roughcr,
coarser work of the family to battle
against whatever might do ii harm, and to
secure for it every possible good. To the
woman it seems ordinarily to pertain TO be
"help meet for man :" to utilize in her
own sweet and skillful way all that raw
material, which the man brings to her from
without. Whether this raw material be
intended as food for the body, for the mind
or for the spirit, it ordinarily needs to pass
through the skillful hands, the facile mind,
or the tender heart Of true womun, be-
fore it is fit for the nourshmcnt of chill
dren, or for the fullest and complc,cst
nourishing of the man himself,
The man and the woman have also,
their respective duties as the representative
Of the family in organized society. The
Church is "a diynely instituted society.
1a;aoio - CIV pa.CS,
u"'"ou VI 'ou 'u' o'ou approves noun
ing either in Church or in state, which in
the least interferes with the essential one.
moss of ,he family or with M ar,,.,no,
nnrnose that the so,tarv .hnuId 1 Iva oi 80,
families Neither Chnrch NOR S,a'o ,Lo, -"
Is nronerlv an aorrcratiom of indiyid t",n'
but Of families. The family is sort of
State within "A State and is so far "a nos
sihle treatcd nc snch Hy thn snner i ,'1 Siato
The family. being in IL rclatipns m ,'' the
State one IN interest and nres,n'o,Jy enc .mo
in sentiment needs ia hn ri,,,nsnn,oii IN t ,i'o
State only Nv one of us 'ncnher u III Ho '"J
most nat1railv Nv the husband AMI fo,ha ne
To- whom nat,rr ~ well ne ", rcyel a'
seems To- ASSIGN nil thot coar.cr and rn',@i,''
er work, which belongs ~ thr contact Of
of the household MS n whole with the ont.
side world, especially with aprrepated