CHAPTER XVI

Marriage, the Home and the Family

Necessity of Marriage--Marriage, God-Ordained and Sanctioned--Righteousness and Necessity of Marriage--Male and Female Enter Heaven--Marriage to Replenish the Earth--Eternal Marriage--Eternity of the Family Organization--Importance of Marriage Within the Church--No Marriage in Heaven--Plural Marriage Forbidden--Further Statement--Marriage and Large Families Desirable--Be True to Your Wives and Children--Respect the Rights of Others--Mutual Treatment of Husband, Wife and Children--We Should Be Examples to Our Families--The Truest Greatness--Parents Responsible for their Children--The Father, the Presiding Authority of the Family--Duties of Fathers--Motherhood the Foundation of Home and Nation--Husband's Success Dependent Upon Wife's Fitness--Duty of Parents--Watch Your Children--Duty to Teach Children--What to Teach Your Children--What Children Should Be Taught--Training of Children at Home and in Sunday School--Teach Children the Gospel--Teach Children the Story of Jesus' Death--Wise Giving to Children--Do Not Place Children Under Pledges--Children Have Equal Rights with Elders in the House of the Lord--Don't Mortgage Your Houses--No Substitute for the Home--Worship in the Home--The Basis of a True Home--The Ideal Home--Foundation of All Good in Home--Secure Homes--Own Your Homes--Do Not Mortgage Your Homes--Evils of Mortgaging--Our First Duty to Our Household--Unchastity, a Dominant Evil--Degrees of Sexual Sin--Purity--Three Threatening Dangers--The Gospel the Greatest Thing--Duty of Husband to Wife--Wives and Husbands in Eternity--Importance of Filial Affection--Family Government by Love--The Home and the Child