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RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1908.
The Religious Press and The Home.
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N a ministry of more than forty years in revival
work in all parts of the country, I have found that
the homes where our religious journals are found
are the most spiritual in life and consecrated in
labor for Christ. And more I have always no
ticed that the pastors who have given special atten
tention in the pulpit and home to get religious pa
pers into the families of their churches have excelled in their
work of saving men, promoting missions, and all the finan
cial departments of their churches.
Now, I wish to speak of one feature of the special influ
ence of the religious paper in the home life. It is that of
providing the children, at the time of their marriage and
making new homes, with a religious paper. Often have I
noticed that when sons and daughters are married and set
tled in life their pious parents, in whose homes they have
been reared under the hallowed influence of the weekly re
ligious paper, have bereft them of this continued influence
and power, simply because, when they gave them the parting
kiss and perhaps supplies to set up housekeeping in their
new home, they have failed to subscribe for them the relig
ious paper which had shed light in the pathway of their child
hood days. One of the first blessings which parents should
confer upon their children in the new home is the religious
paper. And when this is done, who can tell the hallowed
character-building which will be effected thereby? And not
only this upon their personal lives, but the far-reaching in
fluence for Christ upon the Church and the world. Zioti's
Herald.
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