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We are the smiling comfortable homes / With happy families enthroned therein, / Where baby souls are brought to meet the world, / Where women end their duties and desires, / For which men labor as the goal of life, / That people worship now instead of God.
Do we not teach the child to worship God? - / Whose soul's young range is bounded by the homes / Of those he loves, and where he learns that life / Is all constrained to serve the wants therein, / Domestic needs and personal desires,- / These are the early limits of his world.