The Voice of the Home

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Excerpt from The Voice of the Home: Or, How Roy Went West, and How He Came Home AgainAs ilze ffome rpm/cs, $0119 Bow - this is the key note oi the present volume and our unions cannot engage in better ork than to introduce it through Sunday-schools and Loan Libraries to the sitting-room tables of wine and cider-drink ing Christians. For it illustrates how alcohol kills in spite of Gospel teaching what power it has to defeat the best effort of the most honest Christian mother and how surely it Will do {is own work, in spite of all her efforts - if she gives it a chance. The story places emphasis upon the solemn fact that the wine glass and cider-mug are not rendered harmless because they stand on the same table with the family Bible, nay, their curse is all the more deadly because of the height from which their de votees must fall in such a case. Roy, the central figure in the picture, is a model of physical strength has a true and ten der heart, and cherishes the dream of noble manhood. But the physical law of cause and effect written in his members. Defeats him at every point, izzlr moi/zer's wine, which she taught him to love, being the earliest procuring cause of his re sultant ruin. Precisely What is needed, and all that is essen tial in most Christian homes, is an arresf of f/zoug/zf, and the parents who would not find in this story an arrest of the most emphatic character, are few and far between.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.