CHAPTER II.

THE CHILD AT HOME

“Train up a child in the way he should go.”

A Mohammedan home in Persia--A heathen home in Africa--A Christian home in Zululand--The home the centre of a nation’s life--Christianity’s gift to non-Christian homes--Greatness of the task--Disorderly homes--Moral influences--Need of teaching the mothers--Lack of proper discipline--Lack of innocence coupled with appalling ignorance--Sex knowledge--A missionary mother’s “dream”--Position of fathers--Fathers transformed by Christianity--Motherhood--Christian wives and mothers--Child marriage--Betrothal customs--Dying child-wife--Child widows--Homes of the world need Christ--Vocation of a missionary wife--Missionary homes.