FAMILY MONITOR,

OR A

HELP TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

BY JOHN ANGELL JAMES.
Author of "The Christian Father's Present," &c. &e.

"Behold! how good and how pleasant it is, for brethren to
dwell together in unity.

"It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down
upon the beard, even Aaron's beard; that went down to the
skirts of his garments: As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew
that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord
commanded the blessing,even life for evermore."-[Ps. exxxiii.]

CONCORD, N. H.

PUBLISHED BY OLIVER L. SANBORN

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PREFACE.

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THE substance of the following chapters, was deliv ered by the Author, in a course of sermons which followed a series of expository lectures on the epistle to the Ephesians. The consecutive method of preaching which he principally uses, is attended, he thinks, with this among many other advantages, that it brings under the review of a minister, many subjects which would otherwise be overlooked; affords an opportu nity for the introduction of some topics, which, from their peculiarity, seem to require such a way of access to the pulpit; and also furnishes an apology, for the discussion of others, which the fastidiousness of modern delicacy has almost excluded from the range of pastoral admonition. On entering upon the first branch of relative duties, the author was so much under the influence, perhaps improperly, of this excess of refinement, and felt so much the difficulty of making a public statement of the duties of husbands and wives, that he had determined at one time, in to relieve himself from the embarrassment, by merely reading large extracts from Mr. Jay's beautiful eermon on this subject. After he had preached two 1.

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