HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1879, April 9. Paine bequest.

C9930.8.35

HAVE YOU SET up an ALTAR IN YOUR HOUSE?

THE CHRISTIAN DUTY

OF

FAMILY WORSHIP.

"I KNOW him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment."*-In these remarkable words does God himself express his confidence in the fidelity of Abraham. The wickedness of Sodom had become so great that he had resolved to destroy it. But it was the residence of Abraham's kinsman, and Abraham was "the friend of God," For his friend's sake therefore-how precious in the sight of heaven, must that virtue and piety be deemed which brings a blessing, not only on the virtuous and pious, but on their kinsfolk and acquaintance!-for his friend's sake, the Lord God delays the execution of his severe but righteous sentence, until he has been acquainted with it. "And the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that Abraham shall