The Power Of Home

Tho unit of society is tho home. Eurollmeut that assarncs to bo thorough is j not a registration by individuéis, bnt by fi: 'lies. If wo wcro to say that tbo Btr noture of society is cellular, ■uo should havo to say that it is tbo farnily that constitutos each sep:irato ocll. No man, howuver entiro, is a ccll. No woman, however complete, is a cell. i Thero is do flnislied ccll except ia tbo grouping of sovoral individuáis bouud by tho tios of domesticity. A bachelor is a dislocatedfragmont. Eisfe.iiiile. I terpart is iu tho samo category. It may not ba their fault. It may lie i:i tha necessity of their case. Still, all in Ril, it is a condition foroign to divino inention. It is to the family, thorcforo, that we hall havo to look as being thcjnriine point of concorn in all that relaces to ;he wcal of our timea aud or.r kind. The strength and health of society aro to be measured by tho amount of affeotionato emphasis that is laid on tbo homo idea, and the wholesomeuess of society is simply the sa:;(:tity of the homo writ large. Hornea aro each of them the separato roots that carry their several coi. ïibutious to tho organized Btrncturo of tho genera, life. All of this holds whether socioty bo considered in its rclipious relations, which we know ns tho church, or in its secular ones, known as tho state. Tho homo is tho flrst church, and tho home is tho first state. There is nothing in either of the two tbat is not initially present in a small way iiisido tho homo circle. As regarrls the former there is a very importaut idea couserved in so arranping our church auditoriums as to combine thecongregation without sacrificing the identity of its families. The pow system of worship is the deft way that oar church architectiire takes to teach the doctrine that each homo is a litte religious organism. This is ono of thoso interesting cases whero a sonso of fitness, oven without being distinctly conscious of it, nevertheless asserts itself aud creates a very substantial expression of itself. And there is uo pre.icher - at least thero is no pastor - who does uot carry distinctly in his hoad, and particularly in his heart, this cellular structure of his congregation and does not feel that the signifleance of his congregation depends not ou tho number of its individuáis, but on tho