HOWEVER one may read the “signs of the times” with respect to home-life among us, it is still the exception, where human greatness, in its best sense, does not trace its beginnings to the home of the opening years of life. To the reported saying of the Jewish Rabbi: “God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers,” may properly be added, that for a similar reason God made fathers. For with the fathers and the mothers rests the future of the world.
In the hope and with the prayer that the object which the Author had in view when he wrote these “Meditations” on Home-life may reach a broader realization, by their appearance in an English dress, this English version is offered to the actual and prospective fathers and mothers of this and other lands, by the
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Walpole, Mass., April 2, 1929